Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Bush Nominates Miers to Supreme Court

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President George W. Bush (R) today nominated Harriet Miers to become the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Miers has never been a judge, but was president of the Texas State Bar Association, served on the Dallas City Council, and has recently been a White House counsel.

She is viewed as a conservative, but White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in a press conference that Miers’s nomination was suggested by both Democrats and Republicans.

Bush had previously nominated John Roberts Jr. to the Associate Justice position, but withdrew that nomination following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and re-nominated Roberts for the higher position. Roberts was sworn in as Chief Justice on Friday after receiving a decisive Senate confirmation (78-22).

Cleaning, Computers, Music, and Cars . . . Oh My!

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Things have finally calmed down just enough for me to begin working on the 8 billion things that I haven’t been able to do for many, many months now. Things like beginning the long and arduous process of cleaning and organizing my office (the one at home). Once all the junk is sorted and/or removed I can start figuring out how I want to reorganize it, especially given that my computer arrangement will be changing soon (see below). I really need to find a new and better desk.

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DeLay Indicted; Temporarily Steps Down as Majority Leader

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Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX 22nd) has been indicted along with two associates on charges of criminal conspiracy and will temporarily step down from his post as House Majority Leader. The charges stem from allegations that a political action committee started by DeLay violated campaign finance laws.

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Fresh Eyes on Iraq

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Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA 10th) has just returned from his third trip to Iraq, and he shares his thoughts in the Washington Post this morning. Things in Iraq are not as good as I had hoped they would be by now, but—despite the constantly-negative media reports about terrorism and insurgency—things have been steadily improving.

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Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2005

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In the race for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, moderate Republican Jerry Kilgore is pitted against moderate Democrat Tim Kaine and independent candidate Russ Potts (a Republican running without party support). A strange clause in the Constitution of Virginia which prohibits consecutive terms for governors frees incumbent Governor Mark Warner (D) to pursue his supposed 2008 presidential ambitions.

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.