?Of course the court increased its judicial power in Lawrence. It did so precisely by finding a right in certain activity and “reduc[ing] the power and reach of government.” This is a zero-sum game: when the Court decreases the legislature’s power, it increases its own.
When the Court reduces the power of the legislature by striking down an unjust law, it increases the power of the people as well. That's not zero sum.
Here's what Michael Steele said about Limbaugh that he had to apologize for:
“Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it's ugly.
Which is fascinating, because we were told over and over during the Sandra Fluke incident "So he said something ugly and incendiary? Big deal. That's what he does. He's just an entertainer."
We did used to think that the rights of people to smoke at work, in airplanes, at movies, and in other confined spaces outweighed the rights of people who didn't smoke to breathe unpolluted air. We changed out collective minds about that, and a good thing too.
If they oppose drunk driving laws (i.e, want to repeal the laws relating to BAC and make drunkenness at most an enhancement to the penalty for vehicular manslaughter), then yes, they do care more about their right to drive inebriated than about anything else.
Thanks, that was stated very clearly, and isn what I'd gathered from online discussions of the subject. But I was a bit skeptical, since it makes the background check system, one of the most common justifications for not requiring any further gun regulation, a bad joke.
I'd appreciate it if your primer explained the gun show/private seller "loophole" to the background check system (scare quotes because there's so much incompatible "information" about it flying around that I have no idea whether it's accurate terminology or not.)
Oh, yeah. I used to play soccer every Friday after work, in a pickup game with co-workers, former co-workers, friends of the above, their friends, etc. In other words pretty much anyone who showed up that day. This guy I'd never met before was defending me, and he unexpectedly did a hard tackle that knocked me over. And I SCREAMED at him. "GODDAMMIT, THIS IS A FRIENDLY GAME! YOU DON'T DO THAT IN A FRIENDLY GAME!"
"B-but, it was a clean tackle, ..."
"DID YOU HEAR ME? IT'S A FRIENDLY GAME!"
And he backed off. I realized later that it wasn't because I'd gotten my point about friendliness across. The way I'd exploded scared the crap out of him. This took a while to sink in, because it's very foreign to my self-image that people are afraid of me.
I don't consider myself a snob; I just find Lipton genuinely tasteless. My daughter's former dorm had a dispenser of Tazo Tropical iced tea that was awesome. Whenever I visited her there, I'd drink about a gallon of it. Good Earth Tea is also great iced.
It's a lot simpler to leave your car unregistered and illegally obtain a sticker (e.g. steal one off another car.) I'd expect that to be more common.
I'm also a bit surprised that no government agency is notified when a car that's not registered inoperable has its insurance cancelled without being transfered to another carrier.
Oh stop wth the hyperbole. I can stop paying my car insurance, which is legally required in KY and drive for forever so long as I don’t have a run-in with the law.
In California, ou can't register your car without proof of insurance. And you can be pulled over at any time for not displaying this year's sticker on your license plate. I'd have no problem applying the same regime to weapons openly carried, including hunting weapons.
So why not pause and ask “Is it really possible to believe that McArdle wants us to teach kindergartners to gang rush men armed with AR 15?”
As someone who used to read her column at The Atlantic site, I'd have to answer "yes". She did, for instance, accuse people who supported PPACA of doing it specifically to spite her.
I see a lot of myself in what you wrote, though I've been less afflicted or perhaps luckier. And this place as a virtual social group has been a blessing.
And every movie ever made where the solution to all the hero's problems is to grab a gun and start killing the bad guys.
There we go: we'll never be able to ban guns, so ban action movies. Force them to start creating characters and writing dialog instead of programming CGI explosions.
On “The First Contemporary Culture Warrior”
?Of course the court increased its judicial power in Lawrence. It did so precisely by finding a right in certain activity and “reduc[ing] the power and reach of government.” This is a zero-sum game: when the Court decreases the legislature’s power, it increases its own.
When the Court reduces the power of the legislature by striking down an unjust law, it increases the power of the people as well. That's not zero sum.
On “Sailing Away to Irrelevance, Epilogue: In Which the GOP is Finally and Inevitably Made Irrelevant”
Here's what Michael Steele said about Limbaugh that he had to apologize for:
“Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it's ugly.
Which is fascinating, because we were told over and over during the Sandra Fluke incident "So he said something ugly and incendiary? Big deal. That's what he does. He's just an entertainer."
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I'm not going as far as Loviator. I'm making an analogy to opposing reasonable gun laws, e.g. addressing the trafficking loophole you described.
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In other words, Bork had the most important qualification for any office: he drives liberals crazy.
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We did used to think that the rights of people to smoke at work, in airplanes, at movies, and in other confined spaces outweighed the rights of people who didn't smoke to breathe unpolluted air. We changed out collective minds about that, and a good thing too.
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If they oppose drunk driving laws (i.e, want to repeal the laws relating to BAC and make drunkenness at most an enhancement to the penalty for vehicular manslaughter), then yes, they do care more about their right to drive inebriated than about anything else.
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What ND said. The 31 who voted against Sotomayor for being a racist who lacked judicial temperament would be for him unanimously.
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Thanks, that was stated very clearly, and isn what I'd gathered from online discussions of the subject. But I was a bit skeptical, since it makes the background check system, one of the most common justifications for not requiring any further gun regulation, a bad joke.
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If your IQ is 190 (the 99.9999998th percentile) you're qualified to write a column for Parade magazine.
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I'd appreciate it if your primer explained the gun show/private seller "loophole" to the background check system (scare quotes because there's so much incompatible "information" about it flying around that I have no idea whether it's accurate terminology or not.)
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Is that just selection bias for people who hang out on blogsites a lot?
Ones like this that form a kind of community? Makes sense to me.
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Oh, yeah. I used to play soccer every Friday after work, in a pickup game with co-workers, former co-workers, friends of the above, their friends, etc. In other words pretty much anyone who showed up that day. This guy I'd never met before was defending me, and he unexpectedly did a hard tackle that knocked me over. And I SCREAMED at him. "GODDAMMIT, THIS IS A FRIENDLY GAME! YOU DON'T DO THAT IN A FRIENDLY GAME!"
"B-but, it was a clean tackle, ..."
"DID YOU HEAR ME? IT'S A FRIENDLY GAME!"
And he backed off. I realized later that it wasn't because I'd gotten my point about friendliness across. The way I'd exploded scared the crap out of him. This took a while to sink in, because it's very foreign to my self-image that people are afraid of me.
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I don't consider myself a snob; I just find Lipton genuinely tasteless. My daughter's former dorm had a dispenser of Tazo Tropical iced tea that was awesome. Whenever I visited her there, I'd drink about a gallon of it. Good Earth Tea is also great iced.
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Sending a proxy is no way to find a beautiful alien woman to fall in love with.
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It's a lot simpler to leave your car unregistered and illegally obtain a sticker (e.g. steal one off another car.) I'd expect that to be more common.
I'm also a bit surprised that no government agency is notified when a car that's not registered inoperable has its insurance cancelled without being transfered to another carrier.
On “Announcing the January League Symposium: Guns In America”
I think we also have cultivated over the years a bizarre fetishism of guns [...]
see my comment at 11:02 for the bullet points.
It's even worse than you thought!
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In honor of your favorite non-relational database and brand of tea. (Though if that's really your favorite tea, we need to talk.)
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Oh stop wth the hyperbole. I can stop paying my car insurance, which is legally required in KY and drive for forever so long as I don’t have a run-in with the law.
In California, ou can't register your car without proof of insurance. And you can be pulled over at any time for not displaying this year's sticker on your license plate. I'd have no problem applying the same regime to weapons openly carried, including hunting weapons.
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So why not pause and ask “Is it really possible to believe that McArdle wants us to teach kindergartners to gang rush men armed with AR 15?”
As someone who used to read her column at The Atlantic site, I'd have to answer "yes". She did, for instance, accuse people who supported PPACA of doing it specifically to spite her.
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The idiots in the House have been looking for an excuse to impeach him. Ignoring the debt limit would be perfect.
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Thank you, Rod. That couldn't have been easy.
I see a lot of myself in what you wrote, though I've been less afflicted or perhaps luckier. And this place as a virtual social group has been a blessing.
On “Announcing the January League Symposium: Guns In America”
"Symposium" is Greek for "drinking party". So, yeah, it's been legal since 1933.
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And every movie ever made where the solution to all the hero's problems is to grab a gun and start killing the bad guys.
There we go: we'll never be able to ban guns, so ban action movies. Force them to start creating characters and writing dialog instead of programming CGI explosions.
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Did somebody say Cows with Guns?
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Read the (NSFW) Onion article I linked. It says exactly what I was trying to say with my "Is there as app for that?" comment. In other words, no.