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The Democrats’ war against the conservative justices on SCOTUS
The Democrat position is that the left should own SCOTUS. When I was in law school, they did. And that was true for a long time, or at least they often did because of so-called “swing” justices voting with the … Continue reading →
Vermont wants to corner the market on assisted suicide tourism
Vermont has long billed itself as the Green Mountain State. Is it now going to be known as the Green Pastures State?: Vermont removed its residency requirement for assisted suicide on Tuesday, officially opening the door for any American to … Continue reading →
Hanson on Carlson
Interesting take: Two other points. The first is that, for what it’s worth (considering the source), the NY Times says that the real reason Carlson was fired was a text he sent that in part consisted of this: A couple … Continue reading →
Open thread 5/3/23
The latest on the debt ceiling fight
Biden may have to give in, if only a little bit: After weeks of saying he would never meet with House Republicans to raise the debt limit, Joe Biden was forced to cave to the Republicans after his Treasury Secretary … Continue reading →
RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Singer-songwriter – this article says “troubadour” – Gordon Lightfoot has died at 84. RIP. Lightfoot was not an extreme favorite of mine; for example, I never bought an album of his. Nevertheless, he wrote many classic folk-type songs that I … Continue reading →
Separated at birth?
Open thread 5/2/23
This is a long documentary, but I’ve excerpted only about two minutes, featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and then Leonard Bernstein talking about Gershwin:
Continue reading →Another bank bites the dust: First Republic
The call is for stricter regulations on banks. First Republic appears to have run into trouble because of the huge percentage of uninsured deposits it held, coupled with a run on the bank: First Republic had been hit by a … Continue reading →
Billionaires for Biden
For quite some time, the Democratic Party has been mostly the party of the rich and the poor rather than the middle. That’s an exaggeration perhaps, but it certainly seems to be a general trend. And this despite the fact … Continue reading →
Will the Supreme Court curb the power of federal regulatory agencies?
They’ve taken the first step, anyway, by agreeing to hear the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which is a process that could end up overruling Chevron: Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the … Continue reading →