Today's Links 2005 07 03 Sunday (and Saturday!)

Light activity until Tuesday. Next major post will hit Tuesday morning, discussing the appraisal. It's important. I'm also actually working on some of non-real estate topics. One is a discussion of the demise of the estate tax, one a discussion of long term care, and a third a discussion of general requirements for financial planning. So stay tuned.

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Scott Ott at Scrappleface skewers those who will attack any nominee put forward to succeed O'Connor. Scott has my deepest sympathy for trying to write satire in a world with the Donkeys in it. Too often, life imitates Scrappleface.



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I'm not a member of an organized religion. But there are two subclauses of the first amendment, the second stating explicitly no retrictions on the free exercise of your religion. A community college teacher in Victorville, California asked a student to write her term paper on "Religion and its place Within Government" without reference to the word "God". There is nothing else for it. Release the Cluebats, Misha! (As always with Misha, non-family safe language here)

Hat tip: Inoperable Terran



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Tim Blair has an post about Michael Moore producing fiction and gets a hat tip for directing me to a post on Right Wing Death Beast about Austrian Greens who want an arrest warrant issued for the arrest of the President. Not Bush. Ahmadinejihad of Iran.



The age of miracles is not yet past.



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Thomas Sowell has a good piece on jurisprudence, well worth reading. Hat tip: Powerline



Powerline itself also has a worthwhile article on the history of cooperation on judicial nominations within each party. Can you imagine any prominent Democrat (other than perhaps Lieberman), able to fill in the blanks of the sentence they suggest.



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Victor Davis Hanson with an exercise in perspective.



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This is a bizarre enough concept for inclusion especially on a three day weekend: The University of Wisconsin Madison Book Cart Drill Team

Hat tip: Ann Althouse



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Some thoughts upon deployment from a soldier at The Makaha Surf Report My best wishes for all of you who stand watch over us and our future to return safely. Hat tip: Mudville Gazette



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Mark Steyn on the Supreme Court.





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Interview with an Interrogator at Security Watchtower. Hat tip: Dean's World