The following poem is by S.M. Hill, a Swedish immigrant to Oregon, circa 1916. I take it from here. America They boast a great deal about equality, they loudly proclaim you are free. Without answering I'd rather swallow my annoyance and not pay attention to...
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Every year at this time I receive several queries a day from colleagues, would-be colleagues and students asking me if I'll be "at APSA" - the Annual Conference of the American.
Shorter Andy McCarthy: "It's outrageous that banks that committed widespread mortgage fraud should face any sanctions at all. Because ACORN!!!!!!!!!!! Why on earth are we even funding the Department of.
That's the question that's raised by a provision of the school's Public Interest/Public Service scholarship. The terms of the scholarship include the following: Scholars will be expected to maintain matriculation at the Washington College of Law until graduation. Absent compelling circumstances, a scholar who chooses...
A distinguished, if long-dead, philosopher has dropped into our comment section to make a very important point: Because multi-party systems are much more democratically responsive? Coalition building is at least.
People served free food at a bar with their drink order, 19th century. The horror.* God knows I love me a rant. And a lot of them are pointless but.
Ever since the 1820s, Americans have recreated the Founding Fathers they wished they had and used them in convenient ways to promote their own agenda. Little has changed over the decades except the addition of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and to a lesser extent,...
Do you think she's fat? In either case, could you keep it to yourself?
Yesterday a nine-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed a 39-year-old instructor at a firing range designed to cater to Las Vegas tourists. Sprawling across more than 30 acres in the.
The most direct consequence of states refusing to accept the Medicaid expansion is people suffering from avodiable death and/or suffering because they don't have medical insurance. The problems are going beyond this as well: While record numbers of Americans sign up for the larger Medicaid...
I got sick of the means after about 10 minutes. But it's worth considering the possibility that the ends are dubious as well. In particular, I agree with Salmon about.
Good piece by Erwin Chemerinsky on how judicial doctrines of immunity make it difficult to get effective remedies for abuses of power by local authorities: Because it is so difficult.