Idiocracy

Bastille Day is Bunk

Bastille Day is Bunk

The American civil calendar is not alone in being festooned with holidays celebrating

Who Are the Top Athletes?

According to the AP, Tiger Woods was the outstanding athlete of the decade.  Also

Woods Among the Mucky-Mucks

Over at the Claremont Institute’s Web site, leading Straussian Professor of Politics

The Incorporation Doctrine, Again

I was interviewed yesterday afternoon by Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center. 

A Constitutional Convention:  The Time Has Come

Yesterday morning, I was scheduled for a 40-minute-ish appearance on Sirius/XM’s The

Gutzman on Beck; Gutzman on Church

Judge Andrew Napolitano will guest host Fox News’s Glenn Beck Program tonight.  I’ll be

NFL Quarterbacking Statistics of Today…

... are also incommensurate with those of decades past because what in the ‘60s was a

Grade Inflation

Steve Sailer leaps straight from the fact that most of the top NFL quarterback

Incorporation, Again

The Supreme Court is going to take up the question whether the 2nd Amendment is

Law

They Really Meant It

They Really Meant It

[Editor’s note: see also rounds 1-3 of our debate on originalism, interpretation, and

Law

The Genuine Article

The Genuine Article

Austin Bramwell says that I argue, “the Constitution grants the Federal government

Elite Media Opinion

David Gregory:  “He was the Lion of the Senate.” Doris Goodwin:  He was the greatest

Hey, All You Carolinians!

Make your senator account for this, Justice Sotomayor’s very first Supreme Court vote. 

Snarky Leftist

Over at “The Other McCain,” my article on the Republicans and the Constitution is said

Law

Phony Originalism

Phony Originalism

Since the days of Ronald Reagan and Edmund Meese, the Republican Party’s position has

Don’t Buy the Hype

“Conservative” Blue Dog Democrats, having begun this Congress by voting for Nancy

When is a Tomato Not a Tomahto?

According to CNN.com, “Instead of raising taxes, states are putting taxes and fees on

Whose Army Is It?

The Associated Press reports that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has decided to

Idaho State?

As the resident honorary Idahoan here (Mom and Dad were born in Salmon and both

Law

The Frank Ricci Indecision

The Frank Ricci Indecision

On Monday, June 29, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiffs, a group of

Dry Run

According to Prof. Dan Feller of the Jackson Papers project at the University of

Jefferson and Sovereignty

Ilana Mercer says, “For the edification of libertarians prone to vulgar individualism,

Love

When Tom Met Sally

When Tom Met Sally

People often ask me how I can write about Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, Abraham

An Anti-Incorporation Decision

I lamented here that the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, __

On the Sotomayor Nomination

I evaluate Judge Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy (if we can call it that) in today’s

Bradford and Bradford

Tom Piatak would have one think that when M. E. Bradford castigated believers in

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