[Note: Yesterday, June 26, the Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v. Windsor, ruling 5-4 that DOMA, The Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional.  Justice Kennedy provided the decisive vote, siding with the Court's four dependably liberal justices, Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. 

Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia dissented.  The link above is to the Pdf file of the entire decision, which is where the Scalia dissent is to be found.  TTP here presents, as a public service, the extraordinary dissent of Justice Scalia in its entirety, of over 8,000 words, in easily readable form.  It is quite possibly the most blistering, scathing moral denunciation of a majority opinion by a dissenting justice in Supreme Court history.

He condemns the Court majority for "formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency," for accusing "the Congress that enacted this (Defense of Marriage) law and the President who signed it of... act(ing) with malice - with the ‘purpose to disparage and injure' same-sex couples."

Scalia is stunned by the majority's vitriol at "simply for supporting an Act that did no more than codify an aspect of marriage that had been unquestioned in our society for most of its existence-indeed, had been unquestioned in virtually all societies for virtually all of human history. It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race."

This is a brilliant exercise in judicial, constitutional, and moral reasoning.  It is worth reading entire. -JW]  

This case is about power in several respects. It is about the power of our people to govern themselves, and the power of this Court to pronounce the law. Today's opinion aggrandizes the latter, with the predictable consequence of diminishing the former. We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation. The Court's errors on both points spring forth from the same diseased root: an exalted conception of the role of this institution in America.

How's that for salacious titillation?  Do I have your attention now?  Yes, this really is about President George W. Bush and the wife of a friend of mine.  Let me tell you about her.

For all those who wish to participate in The Creation of an Anti-Islamofascism Movement described last week, here is how to start doing so.

An umbrella organization is being formed called The Coalition to Preserve Civilization, which will help enable all those involved in the emerging Anti-Islamofascism Movement and keep them informed of everyone else's activities.

The way to get involved in this right now is to join The 910 Forum.  You'll notice in the left side bar a long list of blogs providing all kinds of info on Anti-Islamofascism. 

To subscribe to the Forum - called "910" for the day before 9/11, since if we had been adequately prepared, 9/11 would have been prevented - email 910-subscribe@yahoogroups.com -- and include something brief about yourself.

This is not a discussion forum, so your inbox will not be flooded.  But it will keep you informed regarding who is doing what on the Anti-Islamofascism front.  And you can contribute your own suggestions and information as well.

We welcome your support and participation.  Working together, we will dig Islamofascism's grave and bury it in the ash heap of history.

If you want to know what's wrong with the Republican Party wrapped up in one pretty package, all you have to do is look at the latest amnesty disaster that was created by a gang of Republican idiots in the Senate.

Marco Rubio, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Bob Corker, John Hoeven, Kelly Ayotte, Dean Heller and the rest of the braindead Senate Republican buffoons who have supported this bill are the living personification of the words, "Stuck on Stupid." They picked the wrong issue, at the wrong time, did it the wrong way, and set it up so that no matter what happens, the Republican Party is doomed to get kicked in the teeth.

Why does the Republican Party lose elections? Because they do things like this:

I first met Merv in 1977.  Intrigued by my book, The Adventurer's Guide which explained how regular folks could have great adventures around the world, he had me as a guest on The Merv Griffin Show. 

We hit it off so well that I ended up being a co-host for his shows featuring famous adventurers and explorers as guests, such as Thor Hyerdahl, Jacques Cousteau, and Lowell Thomas.

Whenever I got back from my latest adventure, living with cannibals in New Guinea, skydiving on the North Pole, taking elephants over the Alps, I'd get a call from Merv asking how soon could I be on the show.

One conversation with Merv, however, ended up affecting the lives of millions for the better, quite possibly yours.  Millions of people in America are alive today, will live longer, and are in better health because of this one conversation I had with Merv.  It wasn't on his show.  It was in a restaurant at the Riviera Hotel in Vegas.

When the going gets tough, as it got excruciatingly so on November 7^th, the tough have a party. 

You may recall that's a line from a famous movie.  But it won't be a Toga Party as John Belushi had in Animal House (the smooth seduction character of "Otter" in the movie, by the way, was based on my Sigma Nu fraternity brother at UCLA, Steve Deming). 

It will be what the Mountain Men of the Old West called their gatherings:  a Rendezvous.  And what better place to have it in than Las Vegas?

Here's how it's going to work.