Day: January 6, 2011

Limits? What Limits? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.the-house-at-rueil

Limits? What Limits?

Mark of New Jersey January 6, 2011

In the comments to Jason’s post yesterday afternoon defending the act of reading the Constitution on the...

Apparently, our diplomatic corps now doubles as Boeing’s overseas marketing department IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.building-site-with-willows

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Apparently, our diplomatic corps now doubles as Boeing’s overseas marketing department

Will January 6, 2011

Seriously. This isn’t exactly surprising, but Tim Carney has done yeomen’s work by digging through Wikileaks for...

It’s Not Accuracy They Want… IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.along-the-seine-38

It’s Not Accuracy They Want…

Jason Kuznicki January 6, 2011

…it’s authority. And fangs. The day will come when drug-hunting dogs will seem as cruel as human-hunting...

A Meaningless Constitution, Thankfully. IFRL-TLC-War-rawpixel-id-421134

A Meaningless Constitution, Thankfully.

Jason Kuznicki January 6, 2011

My former co-blogger Timothy Sandefur is spot-on here, regarding the GOP decision to read the Constitution in...

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A Sterile Constitution

J.L. Wall January 6, 2011

In an attempt I will likely regret to move the continuation of the Civil War/War-Between (Among?)-the-States/War of...

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Hypothesis

Mark of New Jersey January 6, 2011

With the exception of posts that pontificate on the deeper meaning of libertarianism or other political philosophies, the...

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