Right Wing Popcorn

LifeNews.com reports that Rehnquist will serve another term since O'Connor has retired. Apparently his health situation is improving.

Here's a primer from Slate on the potential nominees for Supreme Court Justice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor.

And one from The New York Times.

Len Munsil, lawyer and Executive Director of the Center for Arizona Policy, has this to say about the legacy of fellow Arizonan and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

"Sadly, when our history as a people is written, this will be Justice O'Connor's legacy: she was a judge who was given a rare opportunity to do something courageous and significant and just, something that would have restored an important element of American self-government, and something that would have allowed many unborn lives to be spared - and she blinked."

. . . Sen. Brownback will have a tricky road appealing to a conservative base he needs to win a 2008 Presidential nomination if President Bush nominates Alberto Gonzales. Read it here.

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KS, continues to draw the ire of the biological research community with his proposed "Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005."

LJWorld.com: Chimeras sound like something out of a science fiction movie, a fusion of human and animal cells to create something in-between. But they’re real.

“From the moral perspective, to create a human that is less than fully human or to create an animal that possesses particularly unique human aspects should be a serious concern for all of humankind,” Brownback said in a written statement to the Journal-World.

Kudos to Sen. Brownback. He has been an effective voice in this debate.

After dumping short and long term pension commitments under the cover of bankruptcy court, United will emerge "unscathed." Though we are no fan of organized labor at Right Wing Popcorn, we're no fan of breaking one's word either. United negotiated a contract they should have honored. Honor dictates that one take the difficulties as well as the glories of leadership. Better to have fought to keep the pension plan in place going down than to emerge with the scar of thousands of retirees scrambling to survive when they should be receiving the fruits of commitments made. Here's the link to the story.

E. Thomas McClanahan makes the case against the strained reasoning of the left on Iraq:

"The 'Bush-lied' crowd, in other words, is relying on knowledge that could only be acquired through a policy they opposed--the invasion that brought down Hussein's regime." . . . In effect, Pelosi and her ilk are saying that we should have believed the Iraqi dictator over our own intelligence services when he said he had no chemical or biological weapons — even though he had used them in the past and no credible source was willing to take him at his word.

Michelle Malkin notes how turmoil over the Supreme Court's Kelo v. City of New London decision continues. She especially points out how that is happening in New London itself. Residents are up in arms over the unconstitutional use of eminent domain there.