With respect to the merits of Hudson v. Michigan, I remain mostly happy to second iocaste and Lindsay. I have a couple of additional points: Orin Kerr notes the distinctly non-originalist nature of Scalia's opinion. (I disagree with Publius that this means that Scalia didn't...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ezra suggests that, at least in California, initiatives are becoming toxically unpopular. I certainly hope that this is true, although I wonder how much of this was related to the.
Alright, so I am now in the city after an entirely intraweb-free week in the Vallee Du Rhone, tanned, rested, and carrying several bottles of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape (personal to customs agents:.
Off to France. Intermittent internet access in the meantime; enjoy our superb guest-bloggers and (fairly soon) my usual colleagues. I leave you with the following thought from Roy:I don't believe in that "love your enemy as yourself" bullshit, either, but I don't get all bent...
I think I've seen this kind of argument elsewhere, too, but I'm just baffled by what Ann Althouse seems to arguing here:Amid all the efforts to stir up public outrage.
How is the contention of the "pro-choice" anti-Roe consensus that dominates liberal magazines and op-ed pages that in the wake of Roe's overturning states may pass some "reasonable" regulations and.
In this thread, our friend Pithlord continues his valiant (if, in my view, misguided) defense of a modest version of the centrist pro-choice position. I've discussed before my general belief that parental and spousal notification laws are excerable public policy, although I think the former...
Yet another example. I'm sure that the intensive campaign to de-link NRO will start immediately! (Or, at least, as soon as they've started one for Jeff Goldstein.) Admittedly, there is.
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women.
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper's index:Percentage of U.S. abortions in 1973 and 2002, respectively, that took place in the first...
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married.
Matt's argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there's no question--even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out--that this.