That's a fact, Jack.

Rob McKenna is a crappy lawyer.

Dear Herman Cain…

OK, you're crazy.

Love, Upper Left

Iron-clad evidence…

…that Cook County Judge Raul Vega belongs on the federal bench, and a guarantee he'll never be confirmed, all in one story...

A judge in Chicago issued a preliminary ruling Wednesday against U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) in the Tea Party favorite’s child-support dispute with his ex-wife, ordering Walsh to explain why he appears to be $100,000 behind on his child-support payments.

Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega also wanted to know why Walsh wasn’t in court for the hearing — the McHenry Republican’s ex-wife, Laura Walsh was — and said he expects him to show up at the next hearing, in November.

Walsh’s new attorney, Janet Boyle, asked Vega “for what purpose” he wanted the congressman in court.

Vega gave her a puzzled look.

To which Boyle responded: “Mr. Walsh is a U.S. congressman.”

“Well, he’s no different than anyone else,” the judge said.

Ms. Boyle might have detected the judge's answer within her own rejoinder. It's "Mr. Walsh," not "Lord Walsh."

Kudos to a judge who understands the Constitutional principle of equality before the law. You'd think it'd be a standard lesson in law school, though.

From the "Me too" file.

Tom Levenson, on Walker & Co.'s defiance of the Wisconsin courts…

...I’ll say to all those right bloggers who maunder on about Obamacare or the Libyan attacks or birth certificates or whatever, if you wish to invoke the words “rule of law” you better have something to say here.

Gotta give them time, I guess, but my bet is on crickets.

Me too.

And mine too, too...

I'd imagine…

…that the great majority of the professionals at the CIA are scrupulous about performing their duties within the confines of applicable law. I can't imagine anything more insulting to those law-abiding professionals than the suggestion that the investigation of the few among them that have dishonored their service and their agency by flouting the law would undermine the morale of the honorable many.

Just sayin'...

I've got nothing, really…

…to add to the discussion of Dr. George Tiller's murder. Like everyone of sanity and good will, I deplore the act and the ideas that led to it, but there's scant evidence that the purveyors of those ideas feel any regret or responsibility, and some evidence of a perverse sense of pride. That's terrible, but if anything positive comes from this tragedy, it will be a firmer resolve by those who believe in a nation of laws to refuse to be terrorized.

Well, yeah…

John "Boner" Boehner on the Gitmo internees...

"Republicans oppose releasing these terrorists or importing them into our local communities."

…Democrats do too. We're about prosecuting and imprisoning them. You know, the whole "rule of law" thing.

Of course, the residents of Florence don't consider the inmates at the Super Max part of their "local community" anyway. They don't lose any of 'em, either.