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25 Nov 2006, 5:31 pm
I have always thought that this was one of Tyler Cowan's most interesting posts, and that is saying something. [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 12:22 pm by Mike Rappaport
An extremely important post by Eugene Volokh exploring whether students with awful first year grades should quit law school. [read post]
19 May 2007, 1:40 am
David Greenberg, who I rarely agree with, writes at the New York Times blog that conservatives claim to be abandoning Bush because he has not acted as a real conservative, but in reality they are abandoning him because his conservative policies have failed and the American people will soon reject them: Far from a subversion of modern American conservatism, Bush represents its fulfillment. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 12:13 am by Mike Rappaport
Hopefully, tomorrow will be a glorious day with a victory for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 2:08 pm by Mike Rappaport
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. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 5:19 pm by Mike Rappaport
With President Obama's Administration doing so many horrible things, from destroying private health insurance to spending public funds on its allies like a drunken sailor to its shabby treatment of American allies abroad, I have struggled to find something to like about these guys. [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. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:45 pm by Mike Rappaport
If you had to sum up the health care mess in a short post, it would be this one. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 7:08 pm by Mike Rappaport
(This post has been moved to the top -- for the last time.) [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 4:10 pm
VDH defends Rumsfeld: Here is the record of Donald Rumsfeld. (1) Tried to take a top-heavy Pentagon and prepare it for the wars of the postmodern world, in which on a minute's notice thousands of American soldiers, with air and sea support, would have to be sent to some god-awful place to fight some savagery—and then be trashed live on CNN for doing it; (2) less than a month after 9/11 he organized the retaliation against al Qaeda in the heart of primordial Afghanistan that… [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:36 am
Steve Landsburg discusses how significant technological progress has been (and the fact that the means we use to measure per capita income significantly understates the benefits of such progress): As far as the quality of the goods we buy, try picking up an electronics catalogue from, oh, say, 2001 and ask yourself whether there's anything there you'd want to buy. [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. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 2:10 am by Mike Rappaport
In Why Originalism Is So Popular, Eric Posner, who is something of a rightwing nonoriginalist, emphasizes what I regard as two of the major criticisms of many originalist theories: First, that originalism requires a workable constitutional amendment system, but our system does not produce amendments. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 7:01 am
These words uttered by Winston Smith in 1984 come to mind these days. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 5:11 pm
Manny Klausner is the founder of Reason Magazine, stalwart supporter of the Federalist Society, and libertarian lawyer extraordinaire. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 12:59 pm
Tyler Cowan writes what appears to be well-informed, nuanced and balanced view of Pinochet. [read post]