2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man who planned a slave rebellion in the heart of the slavery beast. There are some angry...
With Jan Brewer deciding she'd rather piss off the Tea Party than the Chamber of Commerce, the current wave of efforts to re-instate Jim Crow remains victory-free. Here in Ohio,.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that despite a 2006 holding that one person could not consent to a search while another resident refused consent, the police could conduct a warrantless.
As with Shelby County, the claim that the insurance requirements in the ACA violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and/or the First Amendment contains multitudes of terrible arguments. I've focused on a couple -- the obvious lack of a "substantial burden" on religious belief and the...
If it was up to me, the National Park Service would take over the boxcar turned house where Merle Haggard grew up and run it as a National Historic Site,.
I have a piece on how the market for college and postgraduate degrees resembles that for Veblen goods. The whole point of paying thousands of dollars for a Louis Vuitton.
True libertarianism is supporting discriminatory laws against gays. Libertarians are highly principled people. Because they are all about "tolerance and respect" just like the Arizona bill. Update--This is the kind of action and politician libertarians can get behind in their very principled defense of freedom. This...
This is the first five-authored book review I've ever seen: Colonel Scott D. Campbell, Captain Charles L. Cashin III, Captain William J. Parker III, Colonel Robert S. Spalding III and Charles E. Berger It’s.
Apologies for indulging in some egregious nutpicking, but on those rare occasions when one's team wins a national championship, allowances should be made. Here, noted political analyst Alex Jones explains.
Some images from the Georgia of Clarence Thomas's youth, where race simply wasn't a major issue. As Henry Billings Brown wrote in a classic of conservative jurisprudence, "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of...
On February 26, 1972, a Pittston Coal Company slurry dam collapsed in Logan County, West Virginia. The ensuing flood of coal slurry would kill 125 people and demonstrate once again.
From the latest re-rebuttal: With Robert Farley responding to my critique of his Foreign Affairs article, “Ground the Air Force,” our ongoing debate on the pages of the National Interest serves.