Virginia Right!

Seems this is a season for United Nations treaties.  We have the usual two:  CEDAW and the UN Child Treaty.  Not too much on CEDAW but this report that the CEDAW committee criticized Brazil for not pushing abortion and also that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is reported to call for “reproductive rights [...]

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights just commented on matters utterly internal to the United States.  The UNHCR needs to be told that future meddling will result in defunding. And an official apology. Here is the article, found first in the Examiner written by Michael McGuire and also here at the UN News [...]

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“Brickley/Sanders Spar over Sovereign Immunity” SPAR over WHAT?  Sovereign Immunity?  Is this related to ICLEI? No, I am afraid it is not related to ICLEI!  Sovereign Immunity is the legal doctrine that the state cannot be sued without its permission.  It is based on a perversion of the doctrine, “The King can do no wrong” [...]

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Apparently, the UK ruling Coalition did something right:  They are allowing parliamentary debate on any issue where an electronic petition with 100,000 names on it is submitted to the MPs (and assuming it meets certain criteria). The first such debate may be over capital punishment in the UK.  (The Young Turk Kwasi Kwarteng said he’d [...]

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Senator Ken Cuccinelli is running for Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia. If you have any doubts that he is by far the best candidate for the office, take a spin around the liberal blogs. These people are wetting their pants and frothing at the mouth at the prospect of Cuccinelli becomming the Attorney General.

Early on, prior to the Republican Primary last May, I had some concerns about Cuccinelli’s Conservative credentials. He actually voted to uphold Governor Tim Kaine’s veto of efforts to repeal Triggerman Rule. This rule made it more difficult to charge both of the Beltway snipers with a Capital crime.

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