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Human life is not too controversial

July 9, 2013Tim Kowal 507 Comments

The rhetorical case for protecting the unborn has succeeded. The debate is over.  It would be, that is, had the Supreme Court not issued – in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s own words – a “difficult to justify,” “heavy-handed judicial intervention”… Continue Reading →

Abortion abortion, fetus, media, pro life, ultrasounds

Prop 8 stands?

June 27, 2013Tim Kowal 95 Comments

Consider this: 1.  The Supreme Court today ruled in its opinion holding DOMA unconstitutional that the states are entitled to decide their own marriage laws.  Assume this is not a meaningless statement – a “bald, unreasoned disclaimer,” as Justice Scalia… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law DOMA, Prop 8, sincerely held belief, standing

The NSA and Privacy: Why Conservatives Should Not Be Sanguine

June 22, 2013Tim Kowal 3 Comments

Defending the NSA’s program that collects information about the American public’s phone calls and emails, President Obama offered this bit of doublespeak: Well, in the end, and what I’ve said, and I continue to believe, is that we don’t have… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Political Theory national security, NSA, PRISM, Privacy

How do you interpret a constitution?

May 10, 2013Tim Kowal 11 Comments

The biggest cause of confusion faced by Originalists—the folks who think the Constitution means what it originally did in the late 1700s—isn’t the one you’d probably guess at first.  You’d probably guess it has to do with how we can… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized constitution, original public meaning, originalism, self-government

“You don’t ‘seize’ the center, you create the center”

April 29, 2013Tim Kowal 49 Comments

When I learned it, I thought the motion for this month’s Intelligence Squared U.S. debate – “The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die” – was simply dreadful.  How could the opposing case possibly be made without fighting a losing… Continue Reading →

Politics centrism, conservatism, GOP, Intelligence Squared, Laura Ingraham, moderate Republican, Ralph Reed, Tea Party

Irregular Constitutional Order

April 18, 2013Tim Kowal 23 Comments

I’ve seldom agreed with Hugh Hewitt so strongly—and readers know I agree with him a lot—as I do on repealing the medical device tax through regular constitutional order and not the usual rendering of pig lips and cow parts.  Hewitt… Continue Reading →

Politics dave camp, Hugh Hewitt, kevin brady, medical device tax, ways and means

The judge as moral philosopher

April 17, 2013Tim Kowal 25 Comments

Reviewing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner’s Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts in the Claremont Review of Books, David Forte exposes Justice Scalia’s famous legal positivism as moral philosophy by another name.  “They call false,”… Continue Reading →

Natural Law books, garner, natural law, originalism, positivism, reading law, Scalia, textualism

Gosnell and our inadequate public discourse on abortion

April 15, 2013Tim Kowal 44 Comments

Tim Carney wrote yesterday that when Obama was a state senator, he “repeatedly voted against legislation requiring hospitals to care for babies born during abortions” because “[s]uch laws might somehow be used in the future to infringe on abortion’s legality.” … Continue Reading →

Abortion alisa lapolt snow, gosnell, partial birth abortion, planned parenthood, pro life

New New Deal, same old Turkey Farm

April 14, 2013Tim Kowal 14 Comments

In the latest Claremont Review of Books released this week, William Voegeli reviews Time magazine reporter Michael Grunwald’s The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era.  Voegeli’s review is worth reading as usual, but I am… Continue Reading →

Admissions Against Interest

Can we agree that THIS is wrong?

April 12, 2013Tim Kowal 147 Comments

This seems like a good way to ease back into blogging after a long absence.  Planned Parenthood of Delaware faces “allegations of unsafe and unsanitary conditions” as witnesses report a failure to wear gloves, use of unsterilized instruments, and unclean… Continue Reading →

Abortion kermit gosnell, media malpractice, partial birth abortion

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