I’ve seldom agreed with Hugh Hewitt so strongly—and readers know I agree with him a lot—as I do on repealing the medical device tax through regular constitutional order and not the usual rendering of pig lips and cow parts. Hewitt has a post today on the issue at his blog. Here’s a key exchange from Hewitt’s interview yesterday with Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, who agrees with Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp on […]
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One way we define a “state” here in the USA is as a unit of regional government. But states are also ways that we define ourselves as local communities and from which we take...
I didn’t write anything about gun violence during the weeks leading up to what the president called a “shameful day.” I may have not written anything about gun violence ever, period, full stop. Lately,...
The Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act (2013) passed it’s third reading last night 77-44, legalising gay marriage in New Zealand. The Act won’t go into effect until later this year, as it still needs to receive the Royal...
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Things have been a little heated ’round these parts lately, it seems. It’s almost as if someone wrote a post about race in which he told a bunch of people they weren’t allowed to...
There was an interesting discussion in the comments section of this post about payday loans. I assume everyone here knows what they are, but just in case someone does not, payday loans are short-term loans of...
Thank you Mark Sanford for returning to politics. We surely need the laughs. You’ve got to love his explanation as to why he entered his ex-wife’s house without permission in violation of their divorce...
As Nob deftly noted, there was big news on Tuesday as an influential 2010 study by professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff was found, to put it lightly, to be deeply flawed. The paper’s conclusions...
On Sunday, Chi Cheng, bass player for Deftones, died after a years-long fight of injuries incurred in a car accident. Deftones were one of the defining bands of the nu-metal movement of the ’90s...
We often use the phrase “customer service” ironically, drawing attention to the lack of service provided and a dwindling view of the customer. But, sometimes, customer service works exactly as it should, if not...
In what has become a series of sorts for me here at the League I thought I would put together some rambling thoughts about the work place and what our careers mean. For the...
The score for Bioshock Infinite currently hovers around 95%. Some have loved it, others not so much. Everyone though, including those in the middle, have had plenty to say about it. Below Jaybird and I...
Reviewing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner’s Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts in the Claremont Review of Books, David Forte exposes Justice Scalia’s famous legal positivism as moral philosophy by another name. “They call false,” Forte writes of Scalia and Garner, “the ‘notion that the quest in statutory interpretation is to do justice,’” and they, like Alexander Hamilton, prefer judges to be “‘bound down by strict rules and precedents.” But judging, Forte pushes back, is […]
I wanted to highlight a TED-Talk given recently by Lawrence Lessig, which Mad Rocket Scientist forwarded to me this afternoon. Many of you probably know Lessig from his work with technology use and copyright...
…is evidently Excel. CEPR has a new report out that Reinhart and Rogoff’s infamous This Time it’s Different was based on a piece of bad arithmetic. We also know that Excel was at least...
So says a new report from the Constitution Project. As reported by Ritika Singh at Lawfare.
Getting a number to run in the Boston Marathon is like getting a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Or it is for a guy like me. Since the likelihood that I...
“Fred Rogers often told this story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: “My mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find...
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on Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024Trump nominates John Sauer to Solicitor General and Todd Blanche to Deputy Attorney General. The Dep… on Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024He walked it back very quickly.
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on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyPart of the meta problem is that most if not all of the various reasons have for the Harris loss are… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyAdmitting there is a problem is not the issue. Choosing the correct problem to admit is. I agree wit… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyGet more pinko friends. My god, my feed is nothing but "self-care in these troubled times" advice po…
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyDemocrats cancel, in furtherance of their crazed woke agenda. Republicans, on the other hand, know r… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltySure, we can admit we have a problem. If "we" are American Democrats, we probably have a lot of prob… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyFor mirror reasons to it needing pushing. Aesthetic masquerading as moral.
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