San Francisco appellate court says Berkeley can punish Scouts for ban on homosexuals.

Not a surprising decision, given the source. On to the state supreme court we go.

Pat Buchanan on the showdown in Alabama over the Ten Commandments monument.

Roy Moore, a Vietnam vet, was lately a judge in Etowah County. Presented a carving of the Ten Commandments, Moore proudly hung the plaque in his courtroom, where it attracted the horrified notice of the ACLU, which found a federal judge to order Moore to take it down.

If the feds want this plaque down, said Moore, tell them to send U.S. marshals to tear it down. Moore's defiance was electrifying. And Gov. Fob James backed Moore up, saying that if the feds sent in marshals, he, his state troopers and the Alabama National Guard would meet them on the courthouse steps.

USC 52
UCLA 21

Up next: Notre Dame

Go 'SC!

The City of Berkeley, in response to an amicus brief I wrote in support of the Sea Scouts, has expressed outrage over how I could compare homosexuality with pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality. If it was even worth my time to file a reply to their innane response, I would ask them why exactly they presumptively believe pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality is any less perverse and unnatural than homosexuality.

11/23/02 correction: Actually, I meant why they presumptively believe pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality is any more perverse and unnatural than homosexuality.

Michigan Supreme Court may hear case to decide question of when life begins. If they do, I'm pretty sure they will try to weasel the issue so that the non-existent constitutional right to an abortion will be preserved.

Thousands of wannabe lawyers in California will soon find out if they have passed what most people consider to be the toughest bar exam in the country (it's three days of nerve racking hell). Good luck, because, you know, California is really short on lawyers.

You have got to be kidding me.

While a federal court decides if Missouri's partial-birth abortion ban is constitutional, a state appellate court has determined that the ban does not allow the procedure to be done even if the life of the mother is at risk. I personally see this as a red herring given the fact that well over 95% of partial-brith abortions are never performed in life threatening situations.

Alabama judge will appeal Ten Commandments monumnet ruling; says he has no plans to remove it. I say, "good for him! Fight the lemmings!"

Seems to me Herod would have loved Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood recently announced the release of its line of holiday cards. Each card reads, "Choice on Earth." One card adds, "Warmest wishes for a peaceful holiday season."

Woo hoo! My graduate school alma mater, the University of Hawaii, cracked the USA Today/ESPN top 25. Who knows, maybe they'll get invited to a bowl game this year.

A great pro-life judicial nominee is confirmed.

And the establishment of "anti-religionism" rolls on.

Where did the modern understanding of "separation of church and state" come from? If you said Thomas Jefferson, you're wrong. It was former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, whose anti-Catholicism highly influenced his 1947 ruling in Everson v. Board of Education that the First Amendment imposes a "high and impregnable" wall between church and state. For more information on this, see Separation of Church and State by University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger and Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (Critical America) by American University professor Daniel Dreisbach.

A maddening pet peeve -- paying a fast food cashier 1 cent over the total amount, and not even being asked if I would like the change. If anyone would like some extra napkins, hot sauce, or straws, drop me a line.

One of my all-time favorite congressmen, Rep. Chris Cox (who is also Catholic) is sponsoring a bill that would help fund the restoration of an old missionary church building. I'm not sure if the "separation of church and state" lemmings will oppose this bill, but given the fact that the whole mission is a state historical landmark, I tend to doubt it.

Dagnabbit! I butchered my job interview with the Madera County Counsel's Office today. I hate getting those "Thank you for applying, but we will no longer be considering you" letters. Ah, well. Guess I just wasn't meant to live near Fresno.

There is, without a doubt, a glaring relationship between Protestantism and American consumerism. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church in the United States hasn't exactly escaped being infected by the latter itself.

Supreme Court to agrees to hear web porn case.

"Shortly after the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 2000, a group of libraries, Web sites and Internet users backed by the American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal district court, claiming that the law violates the First Amendment because the filtering software sweeps up a large amount of legitimate material as well as obscenity or child pornography."

Is there any doubt that Berkeley is nothing but wasted air space?