Not if his “pals” in the respectable media can help it. Morning Joe doesn’t care, and apparently neither do mainstream media stalwarts like Nina Totenberg. The perennial Mark Shields and Evan Thomas* were also on the panel: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I… Continue Reading
…the polls are dirty. Hugh Hewitt cross-examines the pollsters and those who gleefully report them: August 2, 2012 interview of Peter Brown of Quinnipiac, exposing the pollster’s circular reasoning in just two moves: HH: I mean, when does it become… Continue Reading
Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on Plato: [In Plato’s Republic, we] find the… Continue Reading
Liberals endure much teasing for their inability to articulate just what liberalism means. Even their best and brightest flounder at the task. “[T]here is something deep within liberalism,” Michael Tomasky attempts, “that prevents it from degenerating into fascism, and that… Continue Reading
Conor Williams is exasperated and disappointed with the response to his criticism of conservatives criticizing Progressivism. I’ll excuse his missing my comments, set forth below, which answer his criticism directly. But on re-reading Conor’s post, I see that he actually… Continue Reading
“If you will follow my advice, there still may be hopes of your reformation. Apply yourself, without delay, to the study of the law of nature. I would recommend to your perusal, Grotius, Puffendorf, Locke, Montesquieu, and Burlemaqui. I might… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on his new book, Reading Law, at a lunch at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles today, hosted by the Federalist Society. The majority of Justice Scalia’s remarks were responses to questions… Continue Reading
“We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor— to form a more perfect union. If that’s what you believe, if that’s what you want, we have to re-elect President Barack Obama.” Except… Continue Reading
In my contribution to the Democracy Symposium, I acknowledged that modern economic realities may well require more of our government than our Founders contemplated some 22 decades ago. CK MacLeod worries that, as a Constitutional Conservative, I’ve wandered into a… Continue Reading