Feeling drowsy recently, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took a 15-minute nap. That would have been unremarkable except it occurred while the court was in session, hearing arguments on a congressional redistricting case.

The justice’s snooze wasn’t mentioned by the three broadcast networks’ evening news programs that night. Deep in its report on the court’s session, the Associated Press gently noted:

Blogosphere liberals were chuckling to themselves this week. I don’t begrudge them that. It’s a refreshing change of pace from talking to themselves.

The source of their amusement was Sunday’s article in the Toronto Star titled, “How to spot a baby conservative.” The story centered on a study conducted by University of California at Berkeley professor Jack Block that tracked 95 people from their days as nursery school students to adulthood.

Today’s reading is from the Book of Clinton, Chapter Two for the Price of One, Verse 2008.

“Thus saith the angel Hillary regarding the immigration bill passed by the House last December that would make it a felony to be in this country unlawfully:

Last week Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney found a new way to multitask with her cellphone. It’s alleged the Georgia Democrat poked a U.S. Capitol Police officer with her phone when he thoughtlessly challenged her for bypassing a House office metal detector.

Ms McKinney made the usual excuses. The incident happened because she’s black. Because she’s female. Because she’s “progressive.” If those oldies but goodies don’t work, she may turn to a more original defense: PTHD, post traumatic hairstyle disorder.

"We are not criminals," was constantly intoned at rallies around the country Monday. That's nonsense.

People who break the law to enter the United States are by definition criminals. Even if, as at the Washington rally televised on C-SPAN, venerated legislators such as Senator Teddy Kennedy say they aren't.

Notable was the Massachusetts solon having a translator interpret his words. The crowd shouldn't have expected much fluency from Ted. After all, he was tossed out of Harvard for having another student take a Spanish examination for him.

You think Tom Cruise hopping up and down on Oprah’s couch was as silly as it can get?  You must have missed the talk show queen’s recent program about people living on low wages.

Claiming that 30 million Americans are working full time but are still stuck in poverty, Miss Winfrey cited the statistic as a “shameful secret” proving that the promise of the American dream has been broken.  But there’s more:

The war on terror. Illegal immigration. Iraq. Government leaks. Dick Cheney’s shooting accident. All pale in comparison to the crisis du jour: the cost of gasoline.

Diann Burns, Chicago’s highest paid television news reader, and her husband recently built a $3 million mansion in the swank Lincoln Park area.  Monday’s Chicago Sun-Times reported the couple is now suing the contractor for inferior work.
 
Disputes between contractors and homeowners are common.  In this instance, though, Ms. Burns saw something more insidious than shoddy work.  So she whipped out that trusty racism card faster than you can say teleprompter.

Senator Joseph Biden is running for president. The man whose platform may include making the world safe for hair plugs won rave reviews for last week’s speech in South Carolina, a venue not commonly frequented by Delaware Democrats.

While his decision to seek his party’s nomination isn’t “official,” the senator has made his intentions clear. Only weeks after Monsieur Kerry collapsed like a soufflé in the last election, Biden told Don Imus: “Well, I’m going to proceed as if I’m going to run.”