http://ontapblog.com Not Looking Out For You Since 2006 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:11:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Outstanding Outpost of Freedom. And if you want a bit more... In its new location on Pennsylvania Avenue, having migrated across the river from earlier digs in Roslyn, the Newseum now sits where it belongs: among Washington's best attractions for visitors and locals alike. Admission will set you back a cool $20, ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/28/4-word-review-of-the-newseum/ Today's opinion in the Heller case is classic Scalia. Founded on a profound and in-depth historical analysis loaded with detail, Scalia's opinion defines originalism. For 54 pages of rhetorical flourish, he constructs an overwhelming argument and disposes in detail of the dissenters' "wrong headed" contentions. Every word is authentically his. Until ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/26/scalias-opinion-roberts-majority/ The Senator from Illinois isn't flip-flopping on accepting public financing for his campaign. He's just Barack-tracking. He does that a lot. http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/19/not-a-flip-flop/ I've been writing a lot about the EU lately, and I apologize to both our readers if I'm boring you. But it's been an eventful week. Today, Nikos Konstandaras, the editor of a Greek newspaper, pens an opinion piece for the Washington Post website about last week's Irish vote rejecting the ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/19/just-dead-wrong/ Skeedoosh. If you want a longer review, click "Read More". Skeedoosh, by the way, is one of the phrases of Jack Black. I'm more used to hearing it from Jack Black in Tenacious D... not as Jack Black the Animated Panda, so it kind of threw me ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/15/one-word-movie-review-kung-fu-panda/ M. Night Shymalan's "The Happening": The Crappening. Read more if you want a longer review. Seriously, this might be one of the five worst movies I've ever seen, and I like Shymalan's movies. This one however, just reeks. The plot: incredibly stupid. The acting: wooden at best, though ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/15/two-word-movie-review/ The U.S. Senate has been called "the world's greatest deliberative body." Over it's history, it has conducted long, in-depth debates over complex and tumultuous issues. Indeed, that's just what the Founders intended. In setting Senate terms at six years, James Madison and the other framers of the Constitution wanted to ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/15/us-senate-withering-away/ Last weekend, I took the Eurostar over the Paris and spent a couple of days. First of all, I had a lovely time taking in the major tourist spots. The Notre Dame was amazing. Louvre unbelievable. Musee d'Orsay sublime. And the food, of course, was wonderful. Mostly, however, I did what ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/14/one-more-thought-about-the-eu/ It emerged this week that the U.N.'s Human Rights Council suggested that the United Kingdom should abolish its monarchy and put in place a new form of government based on a written Constitution. The Human Rights Council, you might recall, is the U.N. body that welcomes members like Cuba and takes ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/14/speaking-of-useless/ If you think the U.S. government is meddlesome and intrusive, the EU will knock your socks off. Lately, EU bureaucrats have set their sights on health and safety in hotel kitchens, and their resulting regulations, as ever, put a metaphorical stick in the eye of the principles reasonableness and common sense. The ... http://ontapblog.com/2008/06/14/eu-bureaucrats-have-gone-barking-mad/