Scalia's Passing and the Circus to Follow

(Hat tip: KimR) - Most of the time when someone famous or important dies, expressions of profound grief on the part of the public are tiresome at best, representing the cultural triumph of sloppy and overwrought sentimentality. Most such deaths, while tragic to friends, family, and loved ones, have no effect whatsoever on the overwhelming majority of those expressing sadness. Their lives will go on unchanged in any way... Read more at the Political Forum Read More......

Justice Scalia, Political Philosopher and Political Football

(Hat tip: KimR) - It is difficult to summarize briefly such a monumental career as that of Justice Antonin Scalia, let alone to do so not with the distance of history but in the heat of the most heated of political moments – in the midst of a presidential campaign, on the evening of a potentially make-or-break primary debate, and in the middle of a Supreme Court Term with many big cases that could end 4-4 without him. But for a man who was quick with the pen and the barb from the bench, perhaps it was meant to be that way. Read more at National Review Read More......