Pilot Error

Blogged in Constitution,Current Events by Hiker on Monday, 29 June 2009

From Wendy Long, legal counsel to the Judicial Confirmation Network, on NRO’s Bench Memos:

What Judge Sotomayor did in Ricci was the equivalent of a pilot error resulting in a bad plane crash. And now the pilot is being offered to fly Air Force One.

Hypocrisy

Blogged in Ramblings by Hiker on Monday, 15 June 2009

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To a liberal, the worst of all sins is hypocrisy.

Immunity from hypocrisy is possible only by renouncing values.

Sotomayor’s Spanish

Blogged in Language by Hiker on Wednesday, 10 June 2009

From a 1996  speech by Sonia Sotomayor, page 9:

When my first mid-term paper came back to me my first semester, I found out that my Latina background had created difficulties in my writing that I needed to overcome. For example, in Spanish, we do not have adjectives. A noun is described with a preposition, a cotton shirt in Spanish is a shirt of cotton, una camisa de agodon, no agondon camisa. 

Now, for those readers who may know just a little high school Spanish, does this sound right? Spanish has no adjectives? And what about the spelling of algodón? (OK, we’ll ignore that one.)

See here.

GM’s Bankruptcy

Blogged in Current Events,Economics by Hiker on Monday, 1 June 2009

The primary causes of GM’s failure can and have been attributed to two major factors: government regulation and union intransigence. In short, government and the UAW.

Now that GM has filed for bankruptcy, the new owners will be: the government and the UAW.

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