As mentioned here last week, Polk County District Court Judge Douglas Staskal made his ruling on the request to temporarily block Iowa’s new smoking ban on Monday.  The ruling left the door open for bar owners to to proceed with the case.  According to a story on the Des Moines Register web site:
Staskal found it “safe [...]

Lyle Denniston at the SCOTUS Blog provides some interesting insight into today’s decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, a death-penalty case that has now been overturned by the high court. This was a case of child rape. Eight years old. By the her step-father.
The court is wrong.
As Lyle observes, the court has [...]

“Geniousproductions” got the correct answer to this week’s contest!
The question was: The US Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation. Technically, this could have been considered an illegal act. Why?
The answer is, the Articles of Confederation required that all of the 13 states must approve any changes to the Articles.  The Constitution was not [...]

Demosthenes is this week’s winner!
You may recall the question was:
Hypothetical question: If President Bush, Vice President Cheney, House Speaker Pelosi, Senate President Pro Tempore Byrd, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of the Treasury Paulson, Secretary of Defense Gates, Attorney General Mukasey, Secretary of Interior Kempthorne, and Secretary of Agriculture Schafer were all killed, who (today) [...]

We have not had any takers on Contest #3.  We know it requires a little more thought than the first two contests required, but it’s worth the effort.  We’ll give it an additional week and see.  Please don’t hesitate to check it out!

Demosthenes is this week’s winner. He nailed the Statue of George Mason, and covered the point that he was behind the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was a key basis for the U.S. Bill Of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution).
Great job, Demosthenes, You hereby enter the Winners Circle!
One thing [...]

It seems that just when you think Mike Huckabee is seeing the light (or at least figuring out how to pretend he has), we get this…
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There’s some good comments in the midst of this interview, but there’s two real issues here:
1) Huck’s comments (actually from a speech the night before) make it sound like he [...]