Brent Budowsky

Scalia: Recuse or Resign

Scalia: Recuse or Resign

March 14, 2013 8:00 pm
by Brent Budowsky Nothing is more important to “equal justice under law” than an unelected, life-tenured judiciary respecting the fact and appearance of impartiality in...

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Break up the Banks

by Brent Budowsky I agree with George Will about as often as the Boston Red Sox agree with the New York Yankees, but as the law of broken clocks suggests, we must both be right at least twice a day. Will has recently suggested that conservatives should consider joining the effort to “break up the [...]

Put Congress to Work – Call ‘Em Back!

by Brent Budowsky The great sickness of Washington, D.C., that is hurting America so severely is not merely the posturing about the sequester but the small-minded, shallow and second-rate attitudes that permeate both sides of the aisle in Congress and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, which have brought the nation the latest installment of banana [...]

Texas Politics, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio and the GOP ‘Retoot’

by Brent Budowsky Rick Perry will not be reelected governor of Texas. Odds are 60 percent he does not run for reelection, 60 percent he is defeated in a primary if he runs, and 50 percent he is defeated by a Democratic nominee if Perry wins a primary and Texas Democrats choose a strong candidate. [...]

Mideast War and Peace

by Brent Budowsky As President Obama prepares to visit the Middle East and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposes an Israeli government of national unity, let me suggest the United States work with leading nations to create a three-year, $1 trillion mini-Marshall Plan of aid, trade, loans and credits to become available to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, [...]

Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and the Democratic Future of Texas

by Brent Budowsky Demographics are destiny. As I have recently written, Texas is headed blue; the only question is when. I have also correctly asserted that Karl Rove shares a good bit of my thinking about this. Texas Democrats are increasingly excited and Texas Republicans increasingly worried. Have you noticed how Texas Republicans have been [...]

Scalia’s Dead Constitution

by Brent Budowsky In the latest example of how the distemper of the right infects the rule of law in America, and why President Obama would enhance his legacy by moving to fill ALL federal judicial vacancies within 60 days, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has reiterated his opinion that the Constitution is not a [...]