When it comes to better gun control legislation, the Second Amendment is really a minor factor. The Second Amendment can be plausibly interpreted to permit a wide range of control legislation, and in a political world where gun control had strong support this view would...
Month: December 2012
R.I.P. The Bork nomination, of course, marked a watershed moment in American politics -- American conservatives whining that there's no dirtier pool than accurately describing their ideas and their consequences,.
On the latest Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Dan Trombly about Syria and sundry:
The worst mistake to make with regards to Erik's battle with accumulated wingnuttery is this: If I'm careful, it won't happen to me. Erik employed an emotional-but-common metaphor to describe his feelings about a major public figure in the wake of a tragedy; the response...
Rick "Further Evidence That You Should Avoid Governors Named 'Rick' Like the Plague" Snyder has taken Michigan well down the road to being Texas north, but in the wake of.
I am too tired to post anything coherently. With the death threats, it's been a bit crazy. I can assure all of you that I will not be intimidated. I.
I'm sure I'll be returning to these essays once the movie makes it to the provinces, but until then I will note that the debate has inspired some brilliant writing from Glenn Kenny and Manohla Dargis. (I particularly endorse Glenn's point about the "standard viewer"...
The last couple of days have been a bit challenging for me. Being attacked by a David Horowitz wannabe for saying I wanted to see Wayne LaPierre's head on a.
And here's the obligatory Glenn Reynolds attack on me for saying I wanted Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick. Evidently that means I want him assassinated. I mean really, if.
Another deal is being floated. Let's think this through (with the caveat that the details could change): The chained-CPI Social Security cuts are terrible, terrible public policy. Now, yes, to avert the bad aspects of the gradual fiscal incline Republicans will have to be given...
A couple quick thoughts on SecState and SecDef: I'm not so sure that the Benghazi imbroglio was the proximate cause of Rice's decision to step aside. I don't have any.
We've had some strong early entries: Glenn Reynolds, "let us cite William Burroughs as an authority on the dangers of gun control"; Ann Althouse, "let us speculate about how Nancy.