When Should Judges Defer?
Note – Will and I exchanged a few emails on judicial activism, cultural change, and the courts’ public legitimacy in the wake of the Iowa gay marriage ruling. We’ve published an edited version below:...
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Palms
The following images I found rather startling, actually – which is largely due to the fact that in America men walking about in white pointy hoods generally denote membership to certain rather ugly groups. ...
Ack! Activist Legislators Thwarting the Will of the People…
Yes E.D., they found a way to spin it, and here we go… By only one vote, the Vermont House just voted to override Governor Douglas’s veto, overturning the common sense definition of marriage...
Catholicism as a Diploma
I’m late to this, I know, but I just caught Christopher Buckley’s post on Newt Gingrich’s recent conversion to Catholicism: Mr. Gingrich’s brain is a 24/7 phenomenon: Half the time, you sit there just...
Observe and report.
Observe and Report is going to surprise many people who go see it this weekend. And perhaps not in a good way. From the TV spots for Seth Rogen’s new movie, you might think...
The Business of Conflict
“When conflict becomes a business, a nation’s business becomes conflict. When mighty industries are built on war, only a fool will expect peace.” –Philip Primeau Philip’s larger point – that a privatized national defense,...
Pandora Conundrum
I long ago gave up buying or even downloading music in favor of streaming it for free on Pandora – a free online radio station that does a pretty impressive job of tuning its...
This is good…
…but it seems like a lot of trade-offs rather than any real measure to slash the slush-fund that is our defense budget.
Equal Protection Under the Laws: The Libertarian Ideal
Thanks to John, I am pointed to these two rather strange arguments in favor of the Drug War and against libertarian use of statistics on race against the Drug War from Jonah Goldberg. John...
Progressive Traditionalism?
I read Leviticus last year while studying Judaism and I noticed exactly the same thing Ron Beasley is on to in this post. The problem with fundamentalism is it can’t really operate in the...
Mario Loyola is making sense
Here’s a sober response to North Korea’s latest provocation: Because we are not willing to starve the poor North Koreans, and because Kim Jong-Il is even less willing to give up his nuclear weapons...
Saved By The Bell’s Twisted Morality
Every morning while we’re getting our daughter ready for the day, my wife watches Saved By The Bell re-runs. It occured to me this morning how twisted that show’s morality was.
The Madman of Tehran
Moses Maimonides, the famous Jewish physician and theologian of Medieval Cordoba, had a tendency to refer to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad as “the madman.” Maimonides had reasons abundant to use this term. The Jews...
Obama Youth
Michelle Bachmann isn’t really all that crazy. She’s just finding a better way – a more purified way – to voice what the conservative movement has been saying all along.
Whaddaya Mean, “Activist”?
I wanted to give a lawyer’s perspective to the discussion of judicial activism the decision has spawned between William, John, and E.D., arising in part due to Mr. Sullum and Mr. Whelan. To be sure,...
No mischief in the majority’s decision in the Iowa Supreme Court ruling.
Jacob Sullum has concerns about the Iowa Supreme Court ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages: It’s clear that the Iowa constitution’s equal protection clause, at the time it was adopted, was not...
When Madison and Rawls Spoke About SSM
…Given my predilection for all things Madison, it should be no surprise that I thought this was one of the more interesting things I’ve read in a long while.
