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10 Nov 2006, 10:07 pm
This plays into the stereotype of Democrats, but, of course, most stereotypes are true. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 12:04 am
For conservatives, and to some extent for libertarians, this is a pretty sad night. For me, though, I am not so unhappy. The Republicans had lost their way, and they needed to be punished. This was about the least costly way to do it But I am under no illusions: it is not going to be pretty. One piece of good news from the night was that the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative won. This initiative prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or sex for state employment,… [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm
earlier] “FDA’s Gottlieb Hints at a Huge Overhaul of Health Tech Regulations” [Mike [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 1:38 pm
Ilya Somin writes: If nothing else, the deal provides additional evidence in support of the proposition that divided government reduces the growth of the state, and makes deregulation and spending cuts more likely. Certainly, it is inconceivable that any such deal would have been made had the Democrats retained control of Congress in 2010. One can argue that the Republicans would have enacted bigger cuts had they controlled the Senate and the White House as well as the House of… [read post]
4 May 2011, 4:27 pm
According to this Wall Street Journal piece on the Online World of Female Desire: Whereas two-minute video clips are the most popular form of contemporary erotica for men, the most popular form for women remains the romance novel, an artifact that takes many hours to digest. Like pornography, the romance novel has established a strong presence in the digital domain. It is the primary engine behind the electronic book boom. Currently, three of the top 10 books on Kindle are e-romances. Women account… [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 2:08 pm
Eugene Volokh points out that the Supreme Court's web site refers to the Court as engaging in Living Constitutionalism: This power of "judicial review" has given the Court a crucial responsibility in assuring individual rights, as well as in maintaining a "living Constitution" whose broad provisions are continually applied to complicated new situations. While this is unfortunately descriptive of what the Court has been doing, in the main, since at least the New Deal, it… [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 9:47 pm
don't necessarily have the right to burn the Koran. You can burn a flag -- that just pisses off conservative Americans -- but burning the Koran might cause violence. I guess there is advice in there for the conservative Americans. I think the bottom line here is that Justice Breyer feels that he gets to say whether you have the right to burn Korans. You must ask him permission: Last week President Obama told me [Geroge Stephanopoulos] that Pastor Jones could be cited for public burning - but… [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 10:03 am
If this stuff were publicized, it might do some good. The press and Internet are full of straightforward suggestions for easy ways of improving the cleanup, but the federal government is resisting these remedies. First, the Environmental Protection Agency can relax restrictions on the amount of oil in discharged water, currently limited to 15 parts per million. In normal times, this rule sensibly controls the amount of pollution that can be added to relatively clean ocean water. But this is not a… [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 11:50 am
I don't get to say this often but I agree with Mark Tushnet's criticism of Chief Justice Robert's decision for the Court in the Stevens (animal porn) case. Tushnet writes: Chief Justice Roberts's effort to distinguish the Court's creation of a new exception to First Amendment coverage is transparently circular. The test for new exceptions is apparently historical, except when it isn't, in which case the test involves precisely the kind of balancing the Chief Justice… [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 3:25 pm
Well, this past week we had a bit of a scare. Obama went from a -15 Daily Approval Index to -4 after his state of the union. Could Obama, who clearly was not really changing his positions, get away with mere rhetoric to improve his popularity. Obama, no doubt, felt his words could have a magical effect and at first they at least seemed to matter. My view was that the biggest thing was that Democrats and Obama had stopped emphasizing health care restructuring -- that it no longer seemed inevitable… [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 5:05 pm
If you can call his article in the Washington Post a response. I now know enough about climategate to know that his response is full of it. If this is the best that he can do, this makes me more confident that climategate is serious. Put differently, as a Bayesian, this new information increases my confidence that "the consensus" is not based on accurate science. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:32 am
According to Randy Picker, the provision here is the operative one in TARP as to whether the automobile companies can be bailed out. The question is whether they are financial institution as defined as: (5) FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.-The term ‘‘financial institution'' means any institution, including, but not limited to, any bank,savings association, credit union, security broker or dealer, or… [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 8:01 am
Dick Morris writes: As Richard Nixon wrote, "history is written by liberals," but the story of the 2008 campaign is too important to cede to them the analysis of what happened. A close analysis of the returns indicates [that] Sarah Palin made a vast difference in McCain's favor. Compared to 2004, McCain lost 11 points among white men, according to the Fox News exit poll, but only four points among white women. Obama's underperformance among white women, evident throughout the… [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 10:12 am
Some of the comments to my previous post have questioned the constitutionality under an originalist view of an independent Air Force. To my mind, the independence of the Air Force is not relevant to the constitutional question. If the Air Force is constitutional as part of the Navy, then it is also constitutional as an independent department. To focus on the independence question, lets make the following assumption: The use of airplanes and other Air Force equipment would be… [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 12:01 am
A while back there was a discussion between various bloggers, including Larry Solum, Jack Balkin, Brian Leiter, and myself, concerning the relationship between the authority of the Constitution and its method of interpretation. I had written this post but neglected to post it, so here it is: A common move among nonoriginalist constitutional scholars is to argue that the Constitution is binding (or to assume it) and then to argue the real question is how we should interpret it. … [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 12:59 pm
Tyler Cowan writes what appears to be well-informed, nuanced and balanced view of Pinochet. Here is his bottom line: Pinochet the man behaved so badly, both during his term and after, as to be morally indefensible. From second hand accounts I have heard, it is also not clear how much the man himself was personally responsible for the good economic policies. Still many good policies happened. We need a closer look at the Chilean economic legacy, which is a complicated story… [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 12:33 am
"America already lets people buy babies from surrogate mothers, and the risk of dying from renting out your womb is six times higher than from selling your kidney." (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution) [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 10:29 am
In a recent post at Library of Law and Liberty Mike Rappaport writes: First, it is not clear that [read post]
6 Aug 2011, 3:59 pm
My friend and colleague, Mike Ramsey writes on International Law and the Constitution. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 11:14 pm
Not at pursuing the public interest, which goes without saying, but in ensuring his survival. I had wondered about the lack of a loyal republican guard: Former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak got lazy and greedy by filling his "regime maintenance" forces with conscripts (as troops) and recent college graduates (as officers). Theses security forces, like the 325,000 paramilitary police in the Central Security Services (belonging to the Interior Ministry, nor the Defense Ministry), were more… [read post]
