With a new Senate coming in, the left has once again begun targeting  the Senate's filibuster rule, which in effect requires a supermajority of 60 votes to pass anything to which an impassioned minority objects. This applies to not just laws but the Senate's confirmation power, and given the number of Obama judicial appointments pending, the loss of the filibuster could facilitate the seating of more radical federal judges, and maybe even another Supreme Court justice or two.For this very reason, a propaganda campaign is underway to persuade the public that the filibuster should go away -- at least until we get a Republican president and Congress in charge. After the public and media have been softened up, then the Democrat majority in the Senate can propose a rules change.Contributing to the propaganda campaign today are the Los Angeles Times and Professor (emerita) of History at UCLA Joyce Appleby. Unfortunately, the veneer of academic respectability brought to project by the...(Read Full Post)