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Equal Protection Under the Laws: The Libertarian Ideal IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-426258

Equal Protection Under the Laws: The Libertarian Ideal

Mark of New Jersey April 7, 2009
Thanks to John, I am pointed to these two rather strange arguments in favor of the Drug...
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Progressive Traditionalism?

Erik Kain April 7, 2009
I read Leviticus last year while studying Judaism and I noticed exactly the same thing Ron Beasley...
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Mario Loyola is making sense IFRL-Mindiv-25939603743_75fd4e6eb5_b

Mario Loyola is making sense

Will April 7, 2009
Here’s a sober response to North Korea’s latest provocation: Because we are not willing to starve the...
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Gay marriage in Vermont https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.146

Gay marriage in Vermont

Dave April 7, 2009
Legalized by democratic process.
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Saved By The Bell’s Twisted Morality IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Flying_police

Saved By The Bell’s Twisted Morality

Mark of New Jersey April 7, 2009
Every morning while we’re getting our daughter ready for the day, my wife watches Saved By The...
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The Madman of Tehran

Erik Kain April 7, 2009
Moses Maimonides, the famous Jewish physician and theologian of Medieval Cordoba, had a tendency to refer to...
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Obama Youth

Erik Kain April 6, 2009
Michelle Bachmann isn’t really all that crazy.  She’s just finding a better way – a more purified...
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Whaddaya Mean, “Activist”? IFRL-NaPP-Space-nasa-kepler186f

Whaddaya Mean, “Activist”?

Mark of New Jersey April 6, 2009
 I wanted to give a lawyer’s perspective to the discussion of judicial activism the decision has spawned...
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No mischief in the majority’s decision in the Iowa Supreme Court ruling. IFRL-TLC-Scenery-johnell-pannell-1234227-unsplash

No mischief in the majority’s decision in the Iowa Supreme Court ruling.

Dave April 6, 2009
Jacob Sullum has concerns about the Iowa Supreme Court ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages:...
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When Madison and Rawls Spoke About SSM IFRL-Mindiv-GAPD-tate.the-lady-of-shalott-112

When Madison and Rawls Spoke About SSM

Mark of New Jersey April 6, 2009
…Given my predilection for all things Madison, it should be no surprise that I thought this was...
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SI’s Peter King Comes Out of the Cannabis Closet IFRL-NaPP-Asia-00501v

SI’s Peter King Comes Out of the Cannabis Closet

Will April 6, 2009
Well, not quite. But this is a heartening statement:
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Plain Wrong

Will April 6, 2009
Governor Mark Sanford in The American Conservative, March 2009 (emphasis mine): He also deviates from the Republican...
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Goldberg Variations

Will April 5, 2009
Down-blog, Freddie takes a few shots at Jeffrey Goldberg: This is like an awful lot of other...
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How Culture Warriors View the Judiciary… IFRL-TLC-Scenery-jared-rice-751465-unsplash

How Culture Warriors View the Judiciary…

Dave April 5, 2009
This is an adaptation of a classic Tim Sandefur post written about five years while he was...
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Innovators Needed IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.tivoli-the-cascatelle-312

Innovators Needed

Will April 5, 2009
Is there some way for me to blog while taking a bath?
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Sunday Poem series

Freddie April 5, 2009
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in...
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The Limits of Secularization

Erik Kain April 5, 2009
Secularization is part of a long trend toward moral liberalization. That the Iowa Supreme Court would unanimously...
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this has the potential

Freddie April 4, 2009
to be an interesting sociological experiment.
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the Goldberg conundrum

Freddie April 4, 2009
Peter Suderman considers Ari Roth vs. Jeffrey Goldberg. Isn’t Goldberg an almost ludicrously enthusiastic booster for the...
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The notion of judicial activism. IFRL-NaPP-Space-14741327136_d071c54672_k

The notion of judicial activism.

William Brafford April 4, 2009
My name’s on the sidebar now, so I feel obligated to offer a brief response to E.D.’s...
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