The guy has the restraint of a saint.

Joseph Bruno, the attorney for Davis, said his client does not believe the assault was racially motivated.

"I know there is a big temptation to go there, but my client firmly believes that is not what is involved here," Bruno said in an interview.

Instead, Bruno said, Davis believes he was assaulted by "a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with."

If I took an undeserved whoopin' like that I think I'd be hard pressed not to start screaming "racism" myself.

There's something very hopeful about a travesty like this for once not being viewed through the us vs. them racial prism that so poisons relations between blacks and whites.

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Yeahp, "harder, faster, ohh, ohhhhh" now ranks up there with the Federalist Papers.

I'm kind of conflicted. On one hand, it's yet another example of judicial overreaching to claim a Constitution dictates their own amoral world view.

On the other hand, it seems like an easy way for me to make an extra forty bucks a night.

Equal Protection and Porn: Female porn "actresses" make six, eight, ten times as much as their male counterparts. What does the Constitution have to say about this, I wonder?

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At Rightalk.com.

Karol and I discuss the Flat Tax with Steve Forbes, who's written a book on the subject.

We also discuss Harriet Miers, spending, and whether or not Rudy Giuliani has a chance in hell. Karol's on the "No frickin' way" side of the debate.

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No one is shocked by his announcement that he "may return to political life." Sometime around the rev-up for the 2008 presidential campaign.

"Do I plan to return to politics? In the back of my mind, I'd like to do that," he said before a United Way benefit in Austin. "But I learned after September 11 and having prostate cancer, you don't plan the future with that type of specificity. I may return to politics, or I may someday be manager of the Yankees."

Last time I checked, the Yankees were consistently in the playoffs and often the world champs. So, I'm thinking, Option B is the less likely.

Then he plays the disaster-response competency card:

He discussed his response to the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. 11, when he grew to national fame as "America's Mayor." He said that the same lessons learned from Sept. 11 should be used to respond to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.

"The key to reducing the number of things that go wrong in an emergency is relentless preparation: doing drills and taking emergencies you've gone through, analyzing them to determine what you did right and what you did wrong, and improving," he told reporters before his speech.

Texas' response to Hurricane Rita was an example of a disaster plan that "worked very well," Giuliani said. He avoided criticizing the federal, state and local response to Hurricane Katrina but said that the problems should be addressed by a nonpolitical commission in six months.

Now he just has to say something big and bold about cutting spending and about leaving politics to the elected politicians (rather than unelected judges) and we've got the makings of a serious run.

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The Ramadan Offensive?

This story is old. The bomb was found Friday. What makes it new-ish is that the LA Times has yet to report on it.

What's fictitious-- the threat of terrorism or the media's assertion that there is no threat?

Correction: Thanks to Nitpicker for correcting me. Not found in "Midvale, California," but on Midvale Avenue near UCLA (in LA).

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Okay, so he's not really Tim Roth, but Daniel Craig does have a sort of Mr. Orange look to him.

Eh. The Dalton/Brosnan suckfest will continue.

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Overzealous lovers of cats, herbal teas and tarot cards everywhere were dealt a blow today when the Supreme Court refused to hear a Wiccan’s (and member of the “Broom Riders Association”) ACLU backed appeal.

Cynthia Simpson (Witch) previously lost a 4th circuit case arguing that a Virginia county acted unconstitutionally when they denied her the right to open their governmental meetings with a Wiccan invocation. AP:

Lawyers for Cynthia Simpson had told justices in a filing that most of the invocations are led by Christians. Simpson said she wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the "creator of the universe."

Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the Earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

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Stuff that's likely to bother you, whether you support her or not.

Right Side Redux notes the arguments for and against her.

John Fund says "six or seven surprises" -- and not good ones -- will be coming out about Miers in the coming weeks.

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The pair that first reported on the "toothing" phenomenon -- people using their Bluetooth cell phones to arrange completely random and anonymous sexual trysts -- now admit it was all a hoax designed to expose the credulity of the media.

Trouble is, people liked the idea of their hoax so much they started actually doing it.

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Tax Prof quotes a WSJ piece noting the popularity of the Flat Tax in Eastern Europe, and the high GDP growth rates it might be prompting.

(Course, Eastern Europe could just be growing because it's a fairly advanced region coming out of the economic slumber of communism, too.)

We talked about the Flat Tax with Steve Forbes yesterday (on a show pre-taped due to Forbes' schedule), and you can listen today at 4pm on Rightalk.

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