Blacks and the Right to Vote
Via Prof. Rapaport at Right Coast, I find that Missouri Senator Henderson said during the 14th Amendment debates: It is only where political power is in the hands of a favored few that oppression can...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh, Disliked Because He Is Not Partisan Enough
Jay Nordlinger in NR is good on Rush Limbaugh. One reason Limbaugh irritates people, I think, is precisely that he uses remorseless logic to rub it in when liberals go wrong. The other reason is that...
View ArticleSaturday_Night_Live’s Geithner Video
The Saturday Night Live Geithner save-the-economy-plan video is very good.
View ArticleInforming Menendez about the Cuba Policy
Not the first example of amazing Obama Administration political stupidity, but a particularly clear one: Menendez knew that his hard-line approach to Cuba was a minority view within his party, and that...
View ArticleThink Tank Purposes, Left and Right: "more of an echo chamber of Heritage"
Jonah Goldberg : [T]his is what you get when you copy the form of, say, the Heritage Foundation, without actually understanding the function. Places like the Center for American Progress ( allegedly...
View ArticleThe Function of the Office of Legal Counsel
More on the Holder overruling of the OLC. The Washington Post reported In deciding that the measure is unconstitutional, lawyers in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel matched a conclusion reached...
View ArticleBrown’s Win in Massachusetts
(Rasmusen) (Jan. 20–second update). From The Right Coast: January 20. It seems Brown is Protestant, and Coakley is Catholic. That is not as unusual in Massachusetts history as I thought, though. Edward...
View ArticleHuckabee, Romney, Palin, and Obama
A poll has Huckabee has the strongest Republican candidate, winning over Obama 45-44. Romney is next, trailing Obama at 42-44. Palin loses 41-49, largely because she turns off some Republicans so much....
View ArticleOut of 1,791 IRS lawyers, 38 made big contributions to Democracts and 2 to...
What does it tell us if 38 IRS lawyers make big contributions to Democracts and 2 to Republicans, when there are 1,791 IRS lawyers total? The question came up today at Volokh COnspiracy. Isn’t 40 out...
View ArticleNatural-Born Citizens
Is Ted Cruz, born abroad to an American mother and a non-American father, eligible to be President? In nontechnical discourse people both now and in 1789 would no doubt divide citizens up into the two...
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