There is a ton of political activity south of the border, especially as there seems to be barely any activity up here in Canada in terms of federal politics.
Supreme Court Nomination - It's about the Timing!
I will reserve comment on John G. Roberts, who is the actual nominee, and rather talk about the communications genius of Karl Rove and the Bush administration. Things were heating up regarding the CIA leak and information was leaking out about White House adviser Karl Rove and vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby having provided information to Matthew Cooper. Oh, wait! We now have a Supreme Court nominee and everyone drops everything to talk about the strong conservative judge which Bush hopes will change the face of America for a very long time through the Court.
I hope that the calls for Rove's resignation continue and that we get to the bottom of this whole thing. Poor Judith Miller is still sitting in jail. The question is, who is she protecting. There is also the matter of Bob Novak's involvement and I would love to see him go down as well. How CNN can bring him on as an unbiased commentator now is ridiculous considering how much of a right-wing conservative he is.
For now:
O'Connor's reaction here.
Ann Coulter Plagiarized?
From this article at The Raw Story Ann Coulter has been caught plagiarizing pieces in magazines dating as far back as 1985 and a column written for the Boston Globe in 1995 for her recent June column: "Thou Shall Not Commit Religion,". Ann Coulter should be stripped of her column, which of course won't happen, but at least this will help discredit her often ludicrous claims.
Props to Doucheblog with this post on the Coulter story.
Changing Daylight Savings Time??
Front page story today in the Toronto Star about a provision in the Energy bill before Congress that would extend daylight savings time by two months to reduce electricity. Now, I gave some thought to how this might work, and intuitively I see how it can work but wouldn't expect huge electricity savings. Of course, people are screaming about how this might affect Canada. Well, here in Ontario, we have legislation called the "Time Act" under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General. So, we could easily make changes to keep in line with the U.S. I really don't see how this warrants a front page story. The Star buried the Ontario government's $112.7 million funding boost to Home Care on A6. hmmm...[shaking my head]...
Antonia Zerbisias has a humourous take on what Canada will do about this.
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