The Hollywood Liberal

Federal judicial vacancies reaching crisis point
Federal judges have been retiring at a rate of one per week this year, driving up vacancies that have nearly doubled since President Obama took office. The departures are increasing workloads dramatically and delaying trials in some of the nation’s federal courts.

Is the GOP nomination worth having in 2012?
In the wake of a 2010 midterm election that amounted to an across-the-board — or close to it — drubbing of Democrats, there were dire predictions for President Obama’s chances of reelection in 2012.

California Rep. Jane Harman set to resign from House
WASHINGTON — Longtime Democratic Rep. Jane Harman plans to resign from the House to become the next president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Congress is voting less this year, but is it actually working less?
Sometimes it seems there aren’t enough hours in the day for all that members of Congress have to do: Attend committee hearings, meet with constituents, tour their districts, ride in parades and kiss babies. Not to mention raise money and win reelection.

Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood & Oyster Stew
Roger Kimball, Pajamas Media

Obama’s Spending: The Abysmal Results
Rep. Darrell Issa, Financial Times

Comedy Central: Waxman Whacks ‘Fishing Expeditions’

Undermining Allies
Thomas Sowell, Investor’s Business Daily
While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, was revealing to the Russians the hitherto secret size of the British nuclear arsenal. This information came from the latest WikiLeaks documents. Receive news alertsTo betray vital military secrets of this country's oldest, most steadfast and most…

On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail
Laurence Tribe, New York Times
Cambridge, Mass. THE lawsuits challenging the individual mandate in the health care law, including one in which a federal district judge last week called the law unconstitutional, will ultimately be resolved by the Supreme Court, and pundits are already making bets on how the justices will vote. But the predictions of a partisan 5-4 split rest on a misunderstanding of the court and the Constitution. The constitutionality of the health care law is not one of those novel, one-off issues, like the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, that have at times created the impression…