Highlights From Last Week

1. The folly of citing international standards...what if the majority of people were under Communist rule? Should we adopt those standards? The best part of the linked article, "But they ignore foreign law and world opinion when it calls into question liberal policies in the United States. One classic example is the horror that most countries’ courts have for the American practice of letting virtually unguided juries award punitive damages. In most of the world, punitive damages are forbidden. But you will never see a liberal Supreme Court justice talk about 'international law' or 'international opinion' when it comes to punitive damages, which are sacrosanct in the eyes of many liberal judges."

2. Indiana Republican Mark Souder was caught in an affair with a staffer. I am glad he is resigning. The bad thing (besides his conduct) is that it allows liberals to bring up their favorite charge, hypocrisy. I don't think, however, their problem is necessarily his conduct though, simply that he is a hypocrite. He shouldn't dare to have high standards. As Peter Schweizer points out in his book "Do As I Say, Not As I Do", when conservatives don't follow their principles, they hurt themselves and their families. When liberals do, they benefit (i.e. not using unions for the work they want done, investing in companies they publicly denounce)...and that is pointed out in the book as well.

3. Last week during the special elections and primaries, Rush had a great line. During some election nights people will drink alcohol based on what is happening. Rush said that they should definitely not drink every time someone in the media said how these elections were a referendum on anything but Obama, as they'd obviously be drinking a lot.

4. Can you imagine if conservatives had said something like "Thank God, God is a Republican" in a natural disaster, as Stephanie Miller did about the oil spill? The media firestorm would be huge.

5. Michael Posner, a State Department appointee, apologizing to China for the Arizona illegal immigration law. Yes, the Chinese who are repressive and deny rights to their own citizens.

6. A little bit older, but CBO scoring of ObamaCare will cost $115 billion more than first thought (of course, the CBO is nonpartisan and have to score what is given them, no matter how absurd or unrealistic). And of course that is still probably a low estimate.