The Political Ginsburg
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 4th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
“Global Warming, the Movie” Starring: Freezing
Rob Tracinski, Federalist
A funny thing happens when Hollywood tries to portray the horrific negative consequences of global warming: they tend to end up showing an Earth that has frozen over. I noticed this the first time in 2004′s The Day After Tomorrow, where global warming supposedly leads to a global atmospheric inversion that buries New York City under a mountain of snow. It was a striking image: a global warming movie whose poster features the hand of the Statue of Liberty poking out of the top of a glacier. The image was seemingly repeated from Stanley Kubrick’s A.I., when our future robotic…
President Obama’s Executive Overreach
Kirsten Powers, USA Today
Notice that the former constitutional law professor did not make a substantive legal case in defense of his executive power grabs. He merely stated that what he did was popular, ergo his extra-constitutional actions are fine. A more reassuring answer would include explaining how his actions are consistent with the Constitution. The Supreme Court has seemed less than impressed with Obama’s constitutional claims. Last Thursday, the justices tossed his attempt to unilaterally declare the Senate in recess so he could appoint officials to the National Labor Relations Board. Another of the…
Working Mothers & What Bugs Me About Tina Fey
Robin Abcarian, LAT
Until we do, the question of how women achieve both professional and domestic success will remain the subject of intense cultural fascination. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s much-discussed 2012 essay in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” is a recent iteration of our endless interest in this topic. Last week, Matt Lauer set off feminist alarm bells when he asked General Motors CEO Mary Barra, the first woman to lead a major automaker, whether she felt she could be a good mom and a good chief executive.
IRS Lawyers Ready for Busy Week Ahead
Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Tapscott reports the IRS lawyers “will have to explain to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton why the IRS shouldn’t be required to let an outside expert evaluate whether emails on the computer hard drives of former IRS official Lois Lerner and six colleagues really are lost forever, as the agency recently told Congress. “Responding to a motion filed Monday by True the Vote, a Houston-based conservative nonprofit at the center of IRS targeting during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns, Walton issued an order Tuesday to hear arguments next week.” The IRS and its leaders have thus far avoided…