The elites are mystified at the broad-based support for Donald Trump, presumptive Republican nominee for president. At this point, I’m even more bullish on Trump than Paul. I think there is almost no way he doesn’t win the nomination, barring him dying or just deciding he doesn’t want it anymore. The media doesn’t understand, the […]
Month: February 2016
Nah, not even really with respect to his own jurisprudence: Hollis-Brusky is certainly correct that the conservative constitutional principles advanced by Scalia and the Federalist Society alike will
The Las Vegas caucuses gave Donald Trump his biggest victory yet, as he exceeded the total vote going to his two challengers combined in what is now all but officially a three-person race. This result
I spoke with CBC Radio this morning about the South China Sea. Transcript here, listen here. Long story short, the US should worry about China’s assertiveness in the SCS, but it shouldn’t worry too much.
Fernando Cardenal, the leftist priest of the Sandinistas, has died. He was truly an amazing man. The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, a son of privilege who embraced Latin America’s poor as a revolutionary p
You can have my answer now if you like. It’s the end of the Court as we know it (and I don’t feel fine): But while the Republican blockade may lack any precedent, it, too, is probably we
Body of Manuel Granero, bullfighter killed in the Madrid ring, May 1922. Hemingway’s caption to this photo in Death in the Afternoon reads: “Only two in the crowd are thinking about Granero. The others are all intent on how they will look in the photograph.” I Press release, Georgetown University Law Center February 13, 2016 […]
This is the grave of Richard Nixon. There is no real reason to talk about what a terrible person Richard Nixon was. You already know this. I will say the phrase of his grave may be true but has absolu
Gov. John Kasich, America’s Last Moderate Centrist He’s Just an Old Softy, Really Republican, has a cunning plan to become the next PotUS. The problem? All this modernization means there a
Given our national goal for decades of jailing as many people of color as possible for long periods of time, it’s hardly surprising that growing old in prison has become a major problem. Occasionally, the story ends with someone being let free after decades in prison. We saw that this week with the release of […]
The fact that the Rubiobot, far from a being a moderate, has been programmed to be “George W. Bush, but much worse” is a point that cannot be made often enough: If prediction markets (and
There’s an argument to be made that the issue of climate change is so important, with such horrible potential to transform the planet, that nothing should stand in the way of the transition to c