Pondering Positive Rights
In light of some of the responses to the League’s constitutional convention, I’ve been doing some thinking on the subject of so-called positive rights and want to take the pulse of readers here. To...
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Leaguefest: A Preview
Now, I know what you’re all thinking. “Why is Burt, of all people, not commenting on the Constitutional Amendment thread? He loves that sort of stuff!” And I do. But as it happened, my...
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française....
The Retroactive Table of Contents : February 3 – February 10
Headline of the Week Everyone welcomed back Tom Van Dyke after he returned from what must have been the worst League hiatus ever. Ever. New Bright Shiny Object of the Week Unsurprisingly, the big...
Five Notes About Preferences
~ by Sam Wilkinson 1. I will happily argue with you about the best hot-dog in the world. I’ll tell you that it is served at Gene’s in my hometown, and that the idea...
On Paying the Piper, Yet Again
Tom quotes a Rasmussen poll: 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the government should require a church or religious organization to provide contraceptives for women even if it violates their deeply held beliefs. Fifty...
Obama’s Separation of Church and State
According to Bloomberg, Catholics Joe Biden and ex-Chief of Staff Richard Daley tried to warn President Obama off this latest debacle, that the [contraception] mandate would be seen as a government intrusion on religious...
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Constitutional Convention of the LoOG is Now In Session!
Tim’s fantastic post on Constitutional vogue (or lack thereof) and my own follow up produced a lot of really great discussion in the threads about America’s framework document. Reading through the various comments last...
A Different Tradition of Innovation
Mon Tiki is a novel design, by which I mean she’s a departure from the glass reinforced plastic (GRP) sloops that typify modern sailing craft. Though these boats are often derided as “clorox bottles” by...
Militancy and Nation-Building…
Yes, I’m well aware, dear reader that I promised in some respects to not be an “all war, all the time” IR blogger. This does not preclude me from making an occasional observation on...
More Police Brutality
“The police are people who give help each and every day If you’d like to help people, then joining the police is A-okay! ‘Cause people helping other people is what this world’s about,...
The Panel Decision
When a big case is released, I want to read it right away. But unfortunately, courts release big cases at precisely the time lawyers are working. So it’s taken me a day to digest...
A (Long) Musing On The New Contraception Rule
There’s been a long and somewhat intense discussion going on in the comments over at Kyle’s sub-blog about the Obama administration’s rule requiring Catholic institutions to provide coverage for contraception in their health care...
Can Free Markets and Unions Thrive Together?
One of the more common second-order views held by libertarians is that unions and free markets are antithetical to each other, and indeed that unions are inherently hostile towards free markets. This view goes...
So where did I go?
Just to let y’all know I’m still about. Should have a piece about piracy and its economic costs out soon, also looking into getting a guest post about CERN at some point soon. Any...
Prop 8 Open Thread
Chat away. I’m having trouble reading the decision at the moment, but I understand that the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court judgment — Prop 8 is no more. Rational basis review just got...
Why People Aren’t Clamoring for Constitutional Amendments
Over at Dutch Courage, Tim laments our country’s current relationship with our Constitution. Part of the problem, he argues, is that people today feel like they don’t know or understand the Constitution; and this...
