Now let me get this story straight: Mother Jones has reported the contents of a clandestine tape made of a private meeting between Mitch McConnell and a few aides, who were planning to use Ashley Judd’s somewhat sketchy mental health … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP] I’ve got a new article up at PJ, entitled “Constraining Obama.” It’s about Obama (natch), the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and natural rights vs. legal rights.
Continue reading →Richard Landes is on the case.
Continue reading →Every now and then there’s a murderer with a guilty conscience.
Continue reading →The fact that if SCOTUS overrules DOMA the result will be conflict of laws over who is married and who is not should come as absolutely no surprise. In fact, one of the reasons for the passage of the act … Continue reading →
They just won’t be called that any more. After all, we wouldn’t want to offend anyone or hurt their feelings. The article is a bit mum on what should replace the term, which is supposedly being jettisoned because it characterizes … Continue reading →
It can be hard to get a job if you’ve got a record, but universities are doing their bit—if the ex-con was a terrorist, that is. Professors Dohrn and Ayers are not certainly not anomalies; Kathy Boudin has found a … Continue reading →
Will the current spate of violence in Chicago hurt tourism? Not if the news doesn’t get around. I refer to this article on the fact that the Chicago murder rate for the first three months of 2013 was down to … Continue reading →
Would a concealed carry law in Illinois help prevent rampages such as this recent one in Chicago? Here’s a proposal (2/25/2012). Note this quote: Chicago aldermen, Chicago police officers, and even the head of Cook County government all told state … Continue reading →
Signs may be pointing to the idea that SCOTUS will strike down Congress’s 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutionally exceeding federal power. That’s because Justice Kennedy (who may be the only one who counts) appears to be leaning … Continue reading →
Because of the current SCOTUS hearings on two cases involving the legality of same-sex marriage, you can read thousands of new articles about it, discussing the social science aspects (see this, for example, about that dubious data), the cultural ramifications, … Continue reading →
Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog thinks so: The bottom line, in my opinion, is that the Court probably will not have the five votes necessary to get to any result at all, and almost certainly will not have five votes to … Continue reading →