[UPDATE: I’m adding this link as an update rather than an addendum, in order to spotlight it.] Obama lied, millions lost their health care. A defense is shaping up, though, from Democrats like New Jersey’s Joe Vitale: Critics, however, say … Continue reading →
A trip back in time to the epicenter: Cornell, 1969. As Allan Bloom wrote: …[S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears. It was a turning point, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ymarsakar” puts his finger on one of the more disturbing developments that has come to light because of the shutdown: …[T]he park service [used to be] your friendly friends at parks. Until Obama ordered them to put the rod … Continue reading →
Sparked by the Aaron Alexis case, Ann Coulter wrote a blistering piece excoriating liberals for deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: But liberals won’t allow the dangerous mentally ill to be committed to institutions against their will. (The threat of commitment … Continue reading →
Snowden’s modus operandi.
Continue reading →Indeed: For the United States and Europe, this amounts to a colossal strategic failure. Nothing ”” and certainly not the outcome in Afghanistan or Iraq ”” was more important than getting Egypt right. President Obama, who began his presidency with … Continue reading →
Will Mubarak actually be released now? Maybe, just maybe, could people be entertaining the thought that Mubarak’s repressiveness was a reaction to the situation in Egypt at the time he came to power? And that said situation has not changed … Continue reading →
New Jersey has become the second state (California being the first) to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for those under 18: “Ex-gay” conversion is widely discredited and refuted by major mainstream psychological groups, such as American Psychological Association. In June, the … Continue reading →
This article by Donald Sensing was recommended by several commenters yesterday. It doesn’t say anything that hasn’t been said before, both here and elsewhere. But it says it very well and quite succinctly. It’s a gloomy message. But it seems … Continue reading →
Of course he does. What’s more, at least when Nixon was around the press noticed and acted as a check on him. This was apparently due to no special reverence on their part for the Constitution, as we’ve since learned. … Continue reading →
…does the DC Circuit have? In an opinion released today involving the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Executive Branch has no authority to disregard congressional mandates merely on policy … Continue reading →
I found the following comment to my post on Tamerlane Tsarnaev and the BBC (cross-posted at Legal Insurrection) to be a good reminder of the difference between our own left/right divide vs. those of Europe: Some concepts don’t translate well … Continue reading →