Someone was watching Fox News, so you don’t have to do it yourself. Which is good, because they caught this op-ed, which has some rather surprising content for the Murdoch Network: Judge Napolitano is right that these provisions of the… Continue Reading
In Kentucky, the incumbent Republican governor is trailing in the polls by more than ten points. Is it a coincidence, then, that the day before the election (which is today) he should have ordered that a display of the Ten… Continue Reading
A family sued the Westboro Baptist Church for disrupting the funeral of his son, a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq, and won a significant verdict. I have a very hard time feeling bad for the defendants. The excerable Fred Phelps… Continue Reading
It’s astonishing to me that we’re still arguing about prayer in public schools. I would have thought that this was a resolved issue — schools can neither sponsor religious expression, nor prohibit voluntary religious expression on the part of students… Continue Reading
John McCain blatantly sucked up to the Religious Right yesterday, telling a group called Beliefnet that ”the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation". I wonder, Senator, if you could point me to the section of… Continue Reading
But some laughably bad ones, at that. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke today at Columbia University in New York, having previously been denied permission to go to Ground Zero and lay a wreath there, ostensibly to pay respect to the… Continue Reading
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A politician, confronted with an issue upon which he has made popular statements, engages in some introspection and moral contemplation and then announces to the world that he was wrong and that he’s… Continue Reading
Dale Carpenter at Volokh Conspiracy has apparently given up on the idea of judicial challenges to promote same-sex marriage. This is because of an exceptionally long decision of the Maryland Supreme Court, ruling against same-sex marriage by 4-3 vote (two… Continue Reading
Longtime readers know that I am not a believer in the supernatural and critical of religion. I must restrain myself from cheering on other critics of religion from time to time, but today it was easier than in other circumstances… Continue Reading
220 years ago today, a handful of men, mostly lawyers, all elites, gathered in Philadelphia to re-create the government of their newly-independent Republic. They had a number of critical contemporary issues to deal with but also found a way, in… Continue Reading