The Provision and Production of Contraceptive Care
The contraceptives mandate is not a moral necessity.
Author: James Hanley
U.S. Presidency IV: Institutional Change and the Modern Presidency–From Conventions to Primaries
From the front porch to front and center–how candidate selection changed the presidency.
Tearing Down the Walls Against Love, a Same-sex Marriage Update
Love grows where Rose and Mary go, and increasingly the courts give it their stamp of approval.
U.S. Presidency III: Re-envisioning the Presidency as the Tribune of the People
From Clerk of Congress to Tribune of the People. Thanks a lot, Obam…er, Wilson!
U.S. Presidency II: Choosing Mediocre Presidents
How we choose presidential candidates determines what kind of presidents we choose, and that’s why we got Millard Fillmore.
U.S. Presidency 1: The Presidential Debate of 1787
Presidency Syllabus. Texts: – Federalist Papers 69 and 70 – Anti-Federalists 67, 70,and 74 Abstract The lack of a national executive power under the Articles of Confederation was a major factor in the weakness...
Introduction: U.S. Presidency
Introduction and Syllabus for Ordinary University’s first course, the U.S. Presidency.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, adieu
On behalf of my colleague Jon Rowe, I bid everyone at the League farewell. The merger between The One Best Way and the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has not worked as well as we...
American Manufacturing and Employment
In another thread I argued that U.S. manufacturing output was not in decline. Not to be pushy, but just to back up my claim with data, here is a chart from Bureau of Economic...
“Hey, won’t you play another somebody done somebody wrong song”
I just had a multi-hour conversation with a colleague that revolved around the question of the responsibility a hypothetical businessman–let’s call him Phil K.–owes to his workers. My colleague’s argument is that when Mr....
Santa Claus’s Nested Traveling Salesman Problem
My children are eagerly watching Santa on the Norad Santa Tracker, which makes me feel good about the use of my tax dollars and Strategic Command’s ability to focus on the real threats to...
Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom
“When we come to Machiavelli we reach the spirit of the Renaissance, and begin to find law itself questioned…And true enough there soon came the State, as a sort of anti-Christ, to wage war...
Who Pays for Anonymous Protests?
In all of Anonymous’s chest-thumping about the DDOS attack on Visa, did any of them pause to think about the effect on mom and pop shops that may have lost sales because they couldn’t...
No, You Can’t Call Your Strip Club the NY Pubic Library
My brother recently gave me an early Christmas present by pointing out one of those ridiculous government regulations I so love to mock. In New York, a 2006 law gives the State Education Department...
