Publius Awakened

Finally, Minnesota’s Supreme Court has put an end (at least at the state level) to Norm Coleman’s ridiculous obstructionism and ruled in favor of Al Franken, The New York Times reported. Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty appears ready to certify Franken as the winner [...]

The Supreme Court today “invalidated a Connecticut city’s decision to scrap the results of a firefighter promotion exam in which the white candidates scored better than their black peers,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Obama’s healthcare putsch has always been characterized by a total disconnect with reality. But none of the town hall meetings, staged press conferences and ABC infomercials could quite sum up the glib nature of Obama’s health care plan like the Interfaith Week of [...]

China is still going forward with its plan to require that all PC manufacturers pre-install Green Dam, software purportedly meant to shield children from porn online, on all computers sold in China. In reality, Green Dam is a deeply flawed software with “serious [...]

President Barack Obama planted two questioners in his press conference on Tuesday making a mockery of this nation’s free press. The “journalists” in question, Nico Pitney of the The Huffington Post and Macarena Vidal of the Spanish-language EFE news agency, were contacted by [...]

In a speech before both houses of parliament, president Nicolas Sarkozy identified the burka as an object of “enslavement” and said that it was not welcome on French territory.
Sarkozy said, [...]

Pakistan’s recent offensive against the Taliban and Al Qaeda along the border with Afghanistan has produced results and demonstrated Pakistan’s capability to confront Islamic terrorists and win.
But while Pakistan is working hard to eradicate terrorists that pose a threat to its people [...]

The Obama Administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court to shield Saudi terrorist financiers from a U.S. lawsuit more than two weeks ago. Almost 600 family members of 9/11 victims filed the suit in 2004 alleging that five Saudi princes financed the attacks that killed almost 3,000 civilians.
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During the debate over the Constitution, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote 85 articles championing the ratification of the Constitution. These Federalist Papers not only defended the Constitution as a national necessity but also promulgated the basic tenets of American republicanism. [...]