A Constitution That Can Be Escaped is Not a Constituion at All.

Jeff Goldstein hits Mitt Romney on an oft-ignored weakness: judicial moderation. Statism is in the very strictest sense anti-Constitutional. Or, if you wish to be kind, extra-Constitutional, which really amounts to the same thing. The first step toward fixing a politicized judiciary is NOT to bracket political leanings when choosing justices. And that’s because such a… Read More A Constitution That Can Be Escaped is Not a Constituion at All.

Paul Krugman Throws Down the D-Word, Tells Fascist Ghost Stories.

On first glance, this would seem to be the kind of column (h/t: Memeorandum) I could agree with: we are in a Depression, the unemployment problem isn’t acceptable, etc. But what Kruggo intends by this can be summed up in this clause: …ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight. Why,… Read More Paul Krugman Throws Down the D-Word, Tells Fascist Ghost Stories.