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2 Aug 2011, 6:57 pm
(Ilya Somin) The debt deal passed today does not go as far in cutting spending as I would like. [read post]
14 Apr 2019, 8:58 am
” [Ilya Somin; Frank McCormick, Philip J. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 11:27 am
(Ilya Somin) Reason TV has a short but interesting video about the urban renewal era of the 1950s and 60s, when hundreds of thousands of people — mostly poor minorities — were forcibly displaced from their homes by eminent domain. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 3:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) Tommorrow from noon to 1 PM Pacific time (3-4 Eastern), I will be appearing on Bob Zadek’s talk radio show in San Francisco to talk about the gay marriage litigation and other related issues. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 6:44 am
(Ilya Somin) The CNN website has just posted a column I wrote on the individual mandate case. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 7:12 pm
(Ilya Somin) This Friday, I will be taking part in a panel at the Northwestern University School of Law on the implications of accelerating technological development for democracy. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 2:59 am
Ilya Somin analyzes the outcome in the new Cato Supreme Court Review [more, earlier] But who will build the roads? [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 9:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) Atheist blogger Leah Libresco has now begun to implement her Turing Test for religion, which I previously wrote about here. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 3:13 pm
(Ilya Somin) Newt Gingrich recently claimed that Founding Fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson “would have rather strongly discouraged you from growing marijuana and their techniques with dealing with it would have been rather more violent than our current government. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 3:07 am
” [Ilya Somin] “82-year-old sues Red Lobster over getting drunk and breaking hip” [Fox News] “Chefs react angrily as federal appeals court upholds California ban on foie gras” [Maura Dolan, Jenn Harris, and Geoffrey Mohan, L.A. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 3:02 am
Ilya Somin points to a list of The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, which is premised the observation that "on every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 2:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) Pete Guither has a helpful roundup of reactions to the defeat of Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana under California state law. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 1:51 pm
(Ilya Somin) A recently leaked United Nations report claims that the new rulers of Libya have committed numerous human rights violations: Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 6:06 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Orin Kerr links to Richard Fallon’s interesting article on the ethics of law professor amicus briefs.Fallon argues that lawprofs are far too quick to sign amicus briefs that fit their ideological proclivities even if they aren’t really expert in the underlying legal issues and sometimes even if they don’t agree with the particular legal argument advanced by the brief. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) Democratic Representative Barney Frank and Republican Ron Paul recently introduced a bill that would repeal the federal law banning marijuana:The legislation would eliminate marijuana-specific penalties under federal law, but would maintain a ban on transporting marijuana across state lines. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 7:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) John Samples of the Cato Institute has an interesting recent piece on the conflict between Cato and the Kochs [via Gene Healy]: The politically engaged have offered much commentary on the conflict over the future of the Cato Institute. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent interview, Paul Krugman argued that liberals generally understand conservative arguments better than vice versa:A liberal can talk coherently about what the conservative view is because people like me actually do listen. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 1:37 pm
[My wife Alison Somin, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, outlines the problem.] [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
Update: Randy Barnett, Richard Epstein, David Post and Ilya Somin in Adam Liptak's article in this morning's New York Times on Trump's Threat to the Rule of Law. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:43 am
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, co-blogger David Bernstein partially rejects my argument that a ban on same-sex marriage qualifies as sex discrimination. [read post]
