First and foremost, I hope everybody had/is having a wonderful Independence Day (if you’re from the United States, anyway; otherwise I hope you’re just having a good day).
O’Connor to Retire from Supreme Court
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has announced that she will be retiring from the Supreme Court before its new term in October. Her vacancy from the highest court under U.S. law will be the first during George W. Bush’s (R) presidency. O’Connor was the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court and was nominated by President Ronald Reagan (R) in 1981.
O’Connor, while generally siding with the conservative wing of the court, is considered a moderate and has sided with the liberal wing at times. She has often been a ‘swing vote’ at the center-right of conflicting judicial ideologies.
President Bush has not yet announced an appointment to fill the upcoming court vacancy, however he is likely to face stiff opposition from the Democratic minority in the Senate. Under the U.S. Constitution, presidents must appoint members of the federal judiciary and Supreme Court with the advice and consent of the Senate. Minority parties in the Senate have increasingly used the filibuster to interrupt that process.
Where are the Wedding Photos?
Melissa and I have been busy getting literally thousands of photos together, sorted, and uploaded so that we can share them with you. We’ve installed a gallery management system on the wedding website behind-the-scenes, but want to get a lot more organized and posted before we open it for business. There are about 1500 ‘official’ wedding photos from Bella that will need to be sorted (they should be arriving on CD soon), and Melissa is still trudging through about the same number of shots from the Honeymoon . . . so bear with us.
New WTC Tower Design Made Public
It looks like they may have listened to a little of what I said when it was first announced that New York’s upcoming Freedom Tower would be redesigned. It still doesn’t beat Trump’s plan, but at least they’re heading in the right direction.
Democrats Make Up Something to Complain About
After reading today that many Democrats are criticizing President George W. Bush’s (R) for supposedly linking the Iraq War to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 in his speech last night, I have to face a bothersome realization: Democrats either weren’t listening, or they think everybody in the U.S. is really stupid.
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.