Don’t like the law? Just re-write it! The dissent acknowledges that if an ambiguous law can be read in a way that renders it constitutional, it should be. It distinguishes, though, between construing a law charitably and rewriting it. The latter is what Chief Justice John Roberts has done. If Roberts believes that this tactic… Read More NRO: Robert’s Folly, AKA the Return of Earl Warren
Protein Wisdom was right, and we were wrong. Roberts has surrendered to Leviathan, and given us a ruling that makes no sense on a law that makes no sense. The AFA (ObamaCare) cannot be justified under the commerce clause, but can be justified as a tax. The Administration explicitly said it was not a tax,… Read More Good Thing John Roberts was So Carefully Vetted…
I have ambitions beyond this blog, and one of these is to write (another is to start my own Cramps tribute band). I’ve been trying to write since I was 14, and I’ve always been frustrated at the sheer impossibility of making a living at it. The competition daunts the amateur: even if somebody at… Read More Setting up a Publishing House
This is blowing up all over, but Patterico has the key detail: I just got off the phone with Aaron and he and his wife are a little shaken up but OK. The officers had machine guns but did not point them at Aaron. They were quickly able to determine it was a hoax. At… Read More On the Aaron Walker Swatting
Long weekend, long day, blah, whatever. We’re all waiting for the Supremes to hand down their ObamaCare verdict anyway.
Roger Kimball predicts it’s going to get ugly.
Jeff Goldstein describes the new racial show trials. In a campaign reminiscent of the Soviet show-trials of the late 1930′s, where the “enemies of the People” publicly confessed their “crimes” against the Soviet, The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) is actually sponsoring a campaign, declaring “whites” the enemy of the people and showing these enemies confessing their crimes of… Read More Another Opportunity for Honkies to Express their Superiority Over the Wrong Kinds of White People
It’s called S.A.L.V.E., or Shameless Acts of Literary Vandalism and Entertainment. It’s available on Kindle, or in hard copy form on CreateSpace. Buy most buyingly.
Read all about it here (h/t: Insty). “Supernatural punishment across nations seems to predict lower crime rates,” Shariff said. “At this stage, we can only speculate about mechanisms, but it’s possible that people who don’t believe in the possibility of punishment in the afterlife feel like they can get away with unethical behavior. There is… Read More Belief in Hell Predicts Lower Crime Rates
I’m a theist, so I’ll answer them: Why is the physical universe so unimaginably large? Why should it not be? More to the point, isn’t the description “unimaginably large” relative only to humans (and their imagination)? And what’s the point? Under either a materialistic or theistic explanation, the question is irrelevant: ie, the Universe is as… Read More 20 Questions For Theists, Answered
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