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18 May 2015, 6:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At the very least, it should require that any new regulations carrying criminal penalties be approved by Congress and the president. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
No, because the Biden infrastructure plan and the COVID relief bill, which both carry $2 trillion nominal price tags, have very different time horizons. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Conventional wisdom holds that the 2022 midterm elections went surprisingly well for Democrats. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
We have long known that presidents could be elected with a minority of the popular vote, which is a rather strong hint that we are kidding ourselves when we call this country a democracy, but until two years ago, we had not had reason to look at all of the other weaknesses that were hiding in plain sight, waiting to be exploited by a ruthless narcissist and his enablers.Although a horde of Trump’s supporters eventually tried to carry out a bloody coup, it was the bloodless parts of… [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Why, fear mongering about debt, of course, because apparently it is always a good time to tell people that they need to suffer more than they are already suffering.The supposedly liberal newspaper’s lead story on April 19 carried this headline: “Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
When a hurricane is approaching, families leave their houses in disarray as they gather what possessions they can carry in their rush to drive to safer ground. [read post]
12 May 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” These complaints carry loud echoes of the specious complaints that removing Confederate statues somehow attempts to ignore or rewrite history.At one point, Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate tried gamely to offer a definition, saying that “‘cancel culture,’ in the view of its critics, is a process in which mostly decent people are fired from their jobs or shamed into quitting because they have failed to meet impossibly high standards of progressive sensitivity. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
It should, given all of that, come as no surprise that some of the protesters have been carrying Confederate battle flags around Ottawa.Moreover, the protests have gone far beyond the familiar bounds of marching and rallying to seek redress. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
But the underlying facts show that the economy has been anything but robust for the vast majority of Americans.It is also true that the economy’s strengths and weaknesses during Trump’s time in office have simply carried over from Barack Obama’s presidency. [read post]
4 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
At some point, there had been a sudden decline in fertility among many women, and handmaids are still-fertile women who are enslaved for the purpose of being impregnated by the privileged men, carrying the pregnancies to term, and then having their babies taken from them to be reared by the rapists and their wives.Because this is so nontraditional, even as Gilead’s social practices hail back to Victorian-type traditional gender roles that are supposedly based on Christian scripture,… [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Moreover, even such a limited right to bear some arms is also limited by the place in which arms can be borne, with “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings” (in Scalia’s words) fitting easily within the confines of the Constitution.Again, “keep and bear arms” is textually indistinguishable from “shall have power to grant,” in the sense that both offer unmodified terms—“arms… [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
“He has reinvigorated the economy, has created hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, is correcting trade imbalances with China, has forced NATO partners to start to carry their part of the load, is establishing opportunity zones in inner cities and has defeated ISIS. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 9:12 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the puzzling contradictions about higher education in America is that it continues to be a great individual investment even as it has become more and more difficult for individuals to afford. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
[Note to readers: The publication date for this column is April 1. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 2:38 pm by Thornhill Law Firm, APLC
Levine is scheduled to be heard November 3, 2008 before the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 2:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There are also thousands of regulations that carry criminal penalties. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 10:15 am
Additionally, those large trucks who weigh well over the current federally mandated 80,000 pound weight limit carry a substantial hazard and risk on our roadways. [read post]