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- The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment - Spectator.org
| Milford Haven Refinery Back Online With an Upgraded ... - Market Wire Posted: 14 May 2010 02:29 AM PDT SOURCE: Industrial Info Resources CORDOBA, ARGENTINA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2010) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The 143,400-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Milford Haven Refinery in Wales, operated by Murco Petroleum Limited (St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) and owned by Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) (El Dorado, Arkansas) has begun its restart process after a 71-day overhaul. For details, view the entire article by subscribing to Industrial Info's Premium Industry News at http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=160251, or browse other breaking industrial news stories at www.industrialinfo.com. Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. IIR's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle™, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. For more information send inquiries to europe@industrialinfo.eu or visit us online at Industrial Info Europe (http://www.industrialinfo.eu). Follow us on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn - Vimeo Contact: Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Guest commentary: Supreme Court nominee Kagan not fit for the title - Naples Daily News Posted: 13 May 2010 10:52 AM PDT Elena Kagan is a poor choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and she should not be confirmed. Supreme Court nominees must possess certain qualities: intelligence, character, temperament, judicial or other significant legal experience and a judicial philosophy which demonstrates an understanding of the proper role of the judge. These qualities are indispensable and Kagan doesn't possess the two most important — legal experience and judicial philosophy. Kagan's degrees from Princeton, Oxford and Harvard demonstrate requisite intelligence; no one suggests she lacks the necessary character or temperament. But she is the least-experienced Supreme Court nominee in modern history. She has never been a judge. In fact, she is the first nominee in almost 40 years without judicial experience. Previous judicial experience is not indispensable, but substantial legal experience is. Kagan has only two years of real-world legal practice and that as a low-level associate. Most of her legal background consists of service in the rarified halls of academia and within the Clinton White House. Her meager scholarly writings have been described by one analyst as "lifeless, dull and eminently forgettable." Kagan is best known as the former dean of Harvard Law School where she earned plaudits for hiring a few moderately conservative law professors. More revealing about her deanship is that she banned military recruiters from Harvard Law School at a time when our soldiers were risking their lives to defend us. As one observer noted, she "elevated her own ideological commitment on gay rights above what Congress … determined best served the interest of national security." The critical legal issue of our time is the proper role of a justice in interpreting the Constitution. She should decide cases based upon the text and original understanding of the Constitution, not on her personal views of what is just or fair. Because Kagan's paper trail is so thin, it is difficult to ascertain precisely what her view is on the proper role of a judge. The little that is known suggests that she is likely to substitute her views for those of the founders. In a law review article, she asserts that the Supreme Court should look out for the "despised and disadvantaged." To be sure, the "despised and disadvantaged" should win, but only when the law is in their favor. So, too, should large corporations win, when the law is on their side. This is what it means to have a rule of law. The rule of law is one of the great contributions of Western civilization and to follow it faithfully is the obligation of every judge. Kagan's apparent failure to recognize this raises serious doubts about her philosophical underpinnings, and this, coupled with her scant legal experience, provides ample grounds to reject her nomination. Some conservatives argue that she is the best we can expect from the Obama administration. Perhaps so, but the assertion that he could have done a lot worse is hardly a worthy standard to be applied for the nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Scott Brown calls Kagan pro-military - Boston Herald Posted: 13 May 2010 03:02 PM PDT What a hypocrit Kagen is. Kagen WONT TELL in order to get over. How is Kagen's refusal to tell differrent from 'don't ask, don't tell' policy of the military. Incidentially, as gays get into management positions we have seen a rise in anti hetero discrimination. who in their right believes Kagen would support the rights of straights. In addition Kagen has done nothing of merit except teach. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment - Spectator.org Posted: 13 May 2010 07:20 PM PDT  Political HayThe Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment "In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness." "This is a great opportunity to find out what's in this woman's mind." The teachable moment on socialism is here. Courtesy of Barack Obama and Elena Kagan.. The issue -- the issue -- of this confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court Justice should be not Ms. Kagan, but socialism. Socialism, the philosophy she professed such admiration for in her 1981 Princeton thesis titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933." "The Final Conflict." Think of that. Why focus on an undergraduate college paper written almost thirty years ago? Because we are in the middle of a massively controversial presidency led by a man who has exhibited every intention of "transforming" America in the socialist image -- leading the country away from its capitalist heritage. This Supreme Court nomination does not, after all, come in a vacuum. Since taking office, the Obama administration has taken control of everything from car companies to financial institutions to banks to your health care. And no, the obvious intent of Princeton's Sean Wilentz, her thesis adviser and himself a notable progressive, is not missed. In saying in the New York Times that "to study something is not to endorse it" Wilentz telegraphs that is exactly what Kagan -- and he himself -- thought then and now of socialism. They liked it. They like it still. A lot. It helps to understand when reading this particular bit of fantasy that the American Prospect has described Wilentz as "a distinguished historian active in Democratic politics." His defense of Kagan is the plain attempt to engage in a little storytelling with a considerable partisan design -- to convince the unwary that Kagan is not what her words and actions demonstrate she in fact is. Around America, whether it is the struggles of California or New York, or abroad in Greece, the chickens of socialism are coming home to roost. And Solicitor General Kagan -- by all accounts just peachy as a person -- is an on the record believer in the philosophy that is behind all of this. Socialism. There is precedent for a fight of this nature. In 1993, with Democrats in control of the Congress and the media wrapping the new President Clinton in the standard media gauze of affection and let's-all-work-together, something happened. Something important. While it is not often remembered, before there was a Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol in his inimitable style calmly lit the bonfire that signaled the launch of the historic 1994 election of a GOP Congress. He began by rejecting outright the intention of Congressional Republicans to respond to the introduction of HillaryCare -- the health care debate of the day -- by agreeing to the premise and tinkering and bickering around the edges. Serving as chair of a group called the Project for the Republican Future, Kristol wrote a memo that wound up shaking the political foundations of the day. Kristol's startling recommendation: "kill" the bill. Don't bicker about the details. Don't fiddle at the margins. Just plain kill the bill outright and stand on conservative principles. The reaction so startled, so clearly drew a bright line between conservatives and liberals, that in fact the decades-long somnolent establishment Republicans woke up. Prodded hourly by the rebellious Newt Gingrich, the case for opposing HillaryCare was made. And as a result the first Republican Congress since 1952 -- 42 years earlier -- was elected in the "Gingrich Revolution." Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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