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U.S. Supreme Court 101
Every several years, the President nominates a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, and oftentimes the nomination and subsequent confirmation by Congress resembles a slow-moving comet: something we all understand is significant but somehow passes in the quiet of the night. Yesterday, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayer Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace retiring [...]
What is Proposition 8?
If you live anywhere right of the left coast, give yourself props if you are fully versed on Proposition 8. As it is commonly known, Proposition 8 is the California constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that narrowly passed statewide vote on November 4, 2008, the same day we elected our new President. The controversial initiative [...]
Twilight – Books, Movies, Etc.
Rumors are swirling out of the Cannes Film Festival that producers already have green-lit a fourth and final film in the Twilight series. If you are asking yourself how Hollywood could be down the road with a fourth film when you haven’t even heard of the series, I’ll bet you don’t have an adolescent girl [...]
Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Many of you may have heard the term “cap-and-trade” but I suspect most would be hard-pressed to tell you what it means. 1 Cap-and-trade is the penname given to environmental legislation that sets a government ceiling on total emissions and allows polluting industries to buy and sell permits to meet it. In short, a government sells [...]
