President Obama has nominated Federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayer to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court.   Apparently a Hispanic woman has more empathy than a white male when it comes to the U.S. Constitution.  At least Judge Sotomayor has said as much.   On the surface this is one liberal replacing another.   However, Sotomayor represents a leap forward in the substitution of race and gender for intellect and temperament.   Liberals see the judiciary as an another venue for seizing power and imposing their ideology.   Conservatives believe the courts should interpret the law and keep their individual biases out of it.    When liberals speak of empathy, they really mean judicial engineering of our society toward the socialist utopia. 

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 Frankly, we've reached the point now where the argument shouldn't be over individual nominees to the Supreme Court but over the whole concept of judicial review.    If experience has demonstrated one thing, it is the tendency of the judiciary to expand its power at the expense of the elected branches of government, and, as a consequence, for the ideologies of judges to displace the views of the people expressed through their elected representatives.    It seems that an independent judiciary which is not aggressively checked will invariably lead to tyranny by judges.   That's the debate we should be having.

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White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has warned crtics of Judge Sotomayor's nomination to be "careful" in their comments.   No doubt good advice.    Considering this administration's contempt for law it would not be surprising if some critics find unfriendly demonstrators in front of their homes or if their families are harassed.    This president and his accomplices, being true leftists, have no regard for the rights of opponents and desire nothing more than to silence them.    Mr. Obama is a liberal fascist; he represents the guttter in power.

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North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and mid-to-long range missiles.    Mr. Obama has called on the international community to act to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear program.    Of course, neither Obama or the international community will do anything.   George Bush should have solved this program during his second term but passed it along to Obama, who is remarkably unsuited by experience, temperment or ideology to deal with it.   As a consequence a murderous regime lead by a nutcase will have nuclear weapons and soon the ability to deliver them to the United States.   

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Speaking of crazies and nuclear bombs, it is clear that Obama is prepared to accept a nuclear armed Iran.   As bad as a nuclear armed North Korea is, a nuclear armed Iran is far, far worse.   The leader of Iran is more than a nutcase, he's a Islamic nutcase, which means he views death and even national extermination, so long as it is in the service of Allah, as the way to paradise.   Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to use his nuclear bomb, as soon as possible to ignite the return of the 12th inman, his apocalyptic vision of the future.  

And what of Isreal, our long time ally in the region?   It has become obvious that Obama has little love for the Jewish state and is determined to pressure it to accept a "peace" settlement with the Palestians and surrounding Arab states which will leave Isreal highly vulnerable to attack.   If Isreal desires to attack Iran, expect Obama to do everything he can to obstruct the attack and to leave Isreal to the consequences to follow.    Obama may not be a Muslim, but his policies in the Middle East certainly seem tailored to find favor with that group. 

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General Motors has filed for bankrupcty.   What emerges from the process will continue to bear the name but none of the cache or history of the great automotive company which not so long ago was synonymous with American industrial dominance.   First Chrysler and now GM have been raped by the Obama administration to repay the United Auto Workers for its support.   The owners and secured creditors of the company have had their investment and money stolen with the connivance of the United States Government.    The Federal judiciary, which has never been shy about overturning the will of the people in so many contexts,  it strangely constrained when it comes to protecting the contract and statutory rights of shareholders and bondholders.    From the beginning to the present, the Obama administration has behaved in a manner Mussolini or Hitler would have understood well.

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Dr. George Tiller was an abortionist.  As a physician he murdered innocent children in the womb as a "service."   This murder is lawful in the United States because of a judicial abomination called Roe v. Wade, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, and which the Court has stood by like a wayward child since.  While Tiller's actions was legal civilly, morally he was still a murderer.  

Another person took upon himself to kill Tiller.   Opposition to abortion seems to have been a motivating factor in the killing.   No one endorses murder as means to resolve disputes on moral or political manners.   Yet I find myself conflicted.  Tiler would certainly have continued his practice and killed more innocent babies in the womb.   The individual who killed him stopped that carnage.  We recognize as lawful the use of deadly force against a person who is an imminent threat to cause death or serious injury to others.    In Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a means of national defense, our nation uses missiles to kill terrorists who pose a danger to the life and health of Americans and our allies.   The terrorists are killed to protect the innocent because they have demonstrated their intent to murder innocents when and wherever they can.  Tiler murdered innocents and intended to continue to do so.  It is easy to condemn the actions of Tiller's killer as murder and pontificate about moral or political issues being resolved through the democratic process.  But if one believes that life begins at conception, what of the argument that Tiller's killer exercised legitimate defense of others?    The moral case is not so clear cut.  Perhaps an answer is that by killing Tiller the perpetrator denied Tiller a chance to repent.    It is something to ponder.