Monthly Archive: January 2012

As E.D. notes, this is good to see: Kain is skeptical, however, that we’ll see other politicians follow Christie’s lead on this one and embrace a more rational policy towards non-violent drug offenders: It’s...

For my first post here at the League, I’d like to start with something a little obscure, but sufficiently interesting to touch off a little discussion. While obscured by domestic events, the year 2010...

Hello dear reader, welcome to my very first front page post. Most of you have seen me in and about these parts over the past few years, but for those who have not had...

In Memoriam:

I’ve been sent an advance copy of John Tomasi’s forthcoming book Free Market Fairness, due to appear in March. It’s very good, but I’m going to hold off blogging about it until the book...

….Which is why I definitely did not see a bumper sticker this morning proclaiming that “All I needed to know about ISLAM I learned on 9/11,” right next to another bumper sticker admonishing one to...

The good and just Burt Likko wrote a post today on the controversy surrounding Newt Gingrich’s Food-Stamp President hubbub from last Monday night. Coincidently, this was posted on the heels of a post of...

“Ocean Grove is a favorite anti-gay talking point, brought up over and over again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, because it’s their best example of how marriage equality threatens their religious freedom in America. What...

If everyone said they saw “X” and you didn’t, would your first instinct be to wonder if there was something wrong with your vision, that “X” was there and you had somehow missed it?...

Credit where credit’s due: Newt Gingrich knows how to play a room. On the evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the state of South Carolina, Newt doubled down on his earlier comments...

In the comment thread of a previous post I wrote that my objectives blogging at the League were three-fold: To give voice to, and have a forum for and what is (apparently) an irrepresible impulse...

Newt Gingrich channels the legend of Andrew Jackson*: [Gingrich] told a forum of anti-abortion activists ahead of South Carolina’s primary election that as president he would ignore supreme court rulings he regards as legally...

A while back I briefly discussed Steven Rinella in post about Why I Hunt. I was a fan of Rinella’s short-lived show ‘The Wild Within’ but I was a little dubious about some of his...

At Literary Commentary, D.G. Myers engages Victor Davis Hanson’s question: Why read fiction anymore?  He agrees it teaches one self-mastery, and contrasts this with a more common self-affirming method of reading. I was wary...

With Wikipedia down, Timothy Lee points out that this could be Wikipedia-alternative Citizendium‘s chance to shine. I tried to use it, but it’s pretty… thin. Personally, I thought that this was Uncyclopedia’s turn at...

Per yesterday’s post, what 8 hours of boat building looks like.

A few quick points. Front page authors: it is absolutely against our comment policy to delete any comments unless they are abject trolling, way out-of-bounds attacks on the author or other commenters, or seriously...