I saw this CNN documentary the other night and it was excellent—really moving. It includes an inspiring religious element as well. It’s going to be repeated on CNN on Thursday December 12 and Saturday December 14 at 9PM and 11 … Continue reading →
One of the courses that George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley teaches is constitutional law. He is also an Obama supporter and a liberal, although he doesn’t always toe the party line. Turley certainly didn’t pull his punches in … Continue reading →
There don’t seem to be any, except that some acts of evil are inscrutable and beyond our understanding. Many of the assumptions people had about Adam Lanza and his murders are undermined by the official report, according to Jacob Sullum … Continue reading →
The first act in the Duke lacrosse case were the allegations and the resultant hue and cry and calls for conviction. The second act was the unraveling of the case and the disbarment of prosecutor and DA Mike Nifong, as … Continue reading →
Somehow I missed this story when it first came out almost a year and a half ago, but let’s take a break for a moment from Obamacare and re-visit another travesty: President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by … Continue reading →
Can anyone make sense of this story? I know it’s about two babies switched at birth. I know there was a controversial court case and a custody battle. And I know everybody’s happy now, eighteen years later. But the rest … Continue reading →
…for this: Several insurance company CEOs have been called to a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Friday afternoon… Here’s Jonathan H. Adler at Volokh on the legality of the change that President Obama announced yesterday: Under … Continue reading →
It’s a problem that most people are probably unaware of, but single payer virtually eliminates the ability to sue for wrongful refusal to pay claims: …[I]n a private system, wrongs happen to be sure, but we have potentially robust legal … Continue reading →
…based on a charge of fraud is made by Andrew C. McCarthy. Congress will never vote for it, of course. But the case seems strong. And in a somewhat related post, Bookworm offers the best analysis of Obama’s lying m.o. … Continue reading →
…of death panels. And Adam Goldenberg applauds. The “experts and wise community members” that make up Ontario’s Consent and Capacity Board can overrule a family’s decision about whether to continue life support for an ill member. It’s a cost-benefit ratio … Continue reading →
…after some delays. (Some puns are simply irresistible.) The evidence in DeLay’s 2010 trial for money laundering to influence an election was ruled “legally insufficient to sustain DeLay’s convictions.” In other words, the case should never have been brought in … Continue reading →
I’ve been wondering about the history of the restriction of weapons on military bases to MPs. Googling leads to the notion that it was a result of an order by President Clinton in 1993 (see also this). But that didn’t … Continue reading →