Interesting perspective Larry Kudlow:

Roberts’s nomination also signals a bad hair day for trial lawyers and their excessive damage claims which have so crippled business and destroyed tens of thousands of jobs. In particular Roberts is expected to support recent congressional legislation that would move class-action lawsuits from county and state courts to the federal bench. Experts anticipate an aggressive effort by the trial lawyers to gradually snipe at the Class Action Fairness Act, but Roberts is expected to uphold the congressional law.

Roberts is a genuine free-market judge, someone who will not assume that business is always guilty until proven innocent. He should land on the side of limiting damages for personal injury and product liability settlements, which hopefully will include asbestos, medical malpractice, and phony securities lawsuits. He may also be sympathetic to corporate patent-holders of intellectual property, while seeking to oppose local regulators in areas of telecom access, energy development and production, and streamlined power utilities.

Roberts may at times be at loggerheads with judges Scalia and Thomas, who inexplicably have ruled in favor of abusive damage settlements in personal injury and product liability lawsuits. But the new nominee will not be reluctant to overturn local court decisions if they provide obstacles to national economic growth and prosperity.

Also, Nikos Leverenz points out:

40% of those cases the Supreme Court takes are related to business and the economy.

Others linking to Kudlow’s piece: Drew McKissick, jKelly.

Is leaving Iraq all it takes to make life a bowl of cherries for the world? To listen to the latest blather about the causes of terrorism (did the mayor of London contribute to this latest feeble attempt with his recent remarks blaming the west for terrorism?) one might be led to think so.

But in this must read article, “A modest proposal for reasonable Muslims” Burt Prelutsky thinks otherwise.

From Prelutsky…

Only the hopelessly naïve, the same fools who believed Hitler was going to be satisfied with merely gobbling up the Sudetenland, actually believe that the Islamic fascists would all become saints and shepherds if only the U.S. got out of Iraq or out of the Middle East altogether.

If that were all it took, life would be a bowl of cherries. Heck, I’d even be happy to move all the Jews out of Israel and into one of our northern states. If they could turn the desert into a garden, think what they could do with North Dakota. At the very least, Bismarck would have first-rate hospitals, a terrific university, a hell of a state National Guard, more entrepreneurs than the Silicon Valley, and a world-class symphony orchestra.

In the meantime, under Palestinian stewardship, the land formerly known as Israel would revert to sand and rubble. And the Muslims could get back to doing what they do best; namely, slaughtering one another.

Unfortunately, life’s never that simple.

Prelutsky even likes some of the Muslim attitude…

They despise our music, our movies, our tattoos and body piercing, our TV shows and even the way we dress. OK, there’s something to be said for their side, I’ll grant you, but not much.

And he offers a reasonable solution…

Assuming there are decent Muslims in the world, people who are not a disgrace to the human race, I have a suggestion to offer. Rather than be shamed every hour of every day by the revolting barbarism of your fellow Islamics, why not forsake Muhammad for a religious leader who not only preached, but practiced, kindness, charity and love? Why not do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and convert … to Christianity?

Right on Burt Prelutsky. Love your humor and your willingness to make some very pointed and needed comments.

Despite what it may look like, this is not parody.

Brodeur:

The makeup of the high court means different things to people. But to women, well, it can mean our very lives. If we have an unexpected pregnancy, we can have a safe and legal abortion.

How about:

The makeup of the high court means different things to people. But to unborn women who have not yet taken a breath, well, it can mean our very lives. If their mothers have an unexpected pregnancy, they can no longer legally have their brains sucked out.

Brodeur:

Roberts could very well serve as a one-man cavalry, who could help bring down a woman’s right to her own body.

Maybe better:

Roberts could very well serve as a deciding vote, who could help restore an unborn woman’s right to her own body.

Brodeur:

If I sound like Chicken Little, it’s not because our sky is falling; it’s that our horizons aren’t as wide as they once were.

In announcing Roberts’ nomination, Bush noted that the judge has “a profound respect for the liberties guaranteed to every citizen.”

Every citizen.

It is interesting that Nicole Brodeur chose to emphasize the word “every” in the “every citizen” quote. It’s too bad Bush didn’t choose to use the word “person” instead of “citizen” because it’s a key to Ms. Brodeur’s point. You’re not a citizen until you take a breath.

Blair had a great quote just now regarding today’s London bombings.

The people responsible for doing these things, are the people that do them.

Sounds obvious, but to many, it’s apparently not.

And this from the Australian PM John Howard:

Once a country allows its foreign policy to be determined by terrorism it’s given the game away.

And he goes on to debunk the argument that “this is England’s fault for being in Iraq.”

And another great soundbite:

By definition, you can’t put yourself in the mind of a successful suicide bomber.

(I heard it on the radio, so no online source offhand. I’ll link to a source when I find one later as transcripts are posted).

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One of my kids’ personal favorite items, Matville Puzzletown, is being discontinued. Get ‘em while they last! It’s marked down from $29.99 to $19.99.

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Also, check out the Discovery Toys Summer Sale that is currently happening, with lots of great kids’ pictures books on sale, including Giggle Giggle Quack, Bear Snores On, and The Secret Shortcut.

From USA Today:

The fundamental nature of American childhood has changed in a single generation. The unstructured outdoor childhood — days of pick-up baseball games, treehouses and “be home for dinner” — has all but vanished.

Today, childhood is spent mostly indoors, watching television, playing video games and working the Internet. When children do go outside, it tends to be for scheduled events — soccer camp or a fishing derby — held under the watch of adults. In a typical week, 27% of kids ages 9 to 13 play organized baseball, but only 6% play on their own, a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

The shift to an indoor childhood has accelerated in the past decade, with huge declines in spontaneous outdoor activities such as bike riding, swimming and touch football, according to separate studies by the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, and American Sports Data, a research firm. Bike riding alone is down 31% since 1995.

A child is six times more likely to play a video game on a typical day than to ride a bike, according to surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the CDC.

WND is reporting that the group Christian Exodus has been banned from placing Google ads.

Google is a private corporation and they have the right to censor their ads however they want, but if they are going to do so, they ought to be up front about it instead of pretending there is no agenda.

Roberts is being portrayed as a slam dunk for confirmation to the Supreme Court by many, including some so-called mainstream news outlets. Whether this is a deliberate effort to lull the Republicans to sleep is yet to be seen.

The Democrats in the Senate, the party now controlled by the radical left, will be doing everything they can to continue their program of obstruction. It doesn’t matter whether it is court nominees, personnel appointments, national security, or domestic legislation, the Democrats are trying to delay anything Bush and, consequently the Republicans, are trying to accomplish for this country.

The Democrats anxiously watch the calendar. 2006 is fast approaching and the Democrats hope they can fix enough elections to get some seats back. Then, just two more years until 2008 and Bush is gone.

The Republicans foolishly play along, letting the time go on, allowing themselves to be drawn into this game of delay. And there are some Republicans who like the Democrat strategy and do what they can to aid the obstruction.

So don’t be surprised if the Democrats and their propaganda arm, the so-called mainstream media, don’t start fabricating things about Mr. Roberts, forcing the attention down lots of rabbit trails, all for the purpose of obstructing the process and tying up the energy of those of you rejoicing in the brilliance of Bush’s selection.

Remember the Democrats have become the party whose policies and actions support the terrorists. Similar behavior is to be expected. Don’t be surprised.

I got a kick out of this cartoon.

The Power Line guys think Coulter is dead wrong in her commentary.

Ann is just wrong about this one. Frankly, it’s hard to believe she’s serious. Calling John Roberts a “stealth” candidate is ridiculous; he has been on everyone’s short list of preferred conservatives, along with Michael Luttig and Michael McConnell, for a long time. When David Souter was nominated, we–and conservatives everywhere–said, “David who?” When Roberts was nominated, we broke out the bubbly. Ann occasionally goes a bit overboard, but I can’t remember a time when she has been this totally misguided, and, as I said, I have a hard time believing she’s serious.

Roger L. Simon wonders if it’s triangulation. I’m not convinced, but it’s plausible, as exemplified by the reaction by Nick (via MM’s trackbacks):

This guy is looking better and better to me now. Anyone who [angers] Ann Coulter can’t be all that bad.

And Volokh points to O’Connor’s enthusiastic comments on Roberts, via this story:

Her first words were unequivocal: “That’s fabulous!” she said. She immediately described John G. Roberts as a “brilliant legal mind, a straight shooter, articulate, and he should not have trouble being confirmed by October. . . . “

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