I haven’t read the opinion yet — or I should say, all six opinions, because the concurrences and dissents interweave to create the result in Salazar v. Buono. It would appear that the cross can remain up, so if the… Continue Reading
It’s been quite a busy time in the real world, a place that I occupy much more often than the intellectually interesting but not-very-interactive land of Law And Policy Blogging. So before I get into some thoughts about immigration reform,… Continue Reading
Patrick beat me to today’s Amazingly Stupid Government Trick – when we are found to be subsidizing our cotton farmers so as to disadvantage more cost-efficient Brazilian cotton farmers, rather than agreeing to pay the sanctions, or to reform our… Continue Reading
First of all, I hate the phrase “Great Recession.” We’ve got to think up something better. “The Panic of 2007” would be more historically accurate. Second, it’s astonishing that we’re being told “more regulation” is the answer to what we… Continue Reading
Today at Freakonomics Blog, the idea of an “opener” position in baseball is thrown around – again. While George Will considered the idea and in fact it has been experimented with for over a hundred years in minor leagues, it’s… Continue Reading
A random thought from a psychologist: If it seems that our country’s political discourse has grown increasingly polarized, intractable, and hostile, blame the Soviet Union for it. Specifically, blame the Soviets for collapsing and depriving us of a meaningful enemy. … Continue Reading
Once again, Americans prove to be remarkably conservative with their money – at least, with the issue of who and what is on their money. A proposal to take Ulysses S. Grant off the $50 bill and replace him with… Continue Reading
I said that giving billions of dollars to General Motors was wrong. I said it was lighting the money on fire, we’d never see it back again, and it was being used to keep a dinosaur alive. While I’m not… Continue Reading
Although I don’t actually like the stuff very much personally, I think it’s long, long past time to legalize it — and I’ve never quite understood why pot smokers place such mystical significance in the number 420. The Waldos’ story… Continue Reading
The plaintiff, Clay Greene claims that he was forcibly separated from Harold Scull, his partner of twenty-five years, with whom he had made a home for twenty, and with whom he was still deeply in love. Greene he was put… Continue Reading