Marco Randazza at Legal Satyricon linked to my analysis of the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Newdow v. Rio Linda USD. A commenter there named “Alan,” however, takes issue with not only my prohibition against anonymous commenters (for reasons which… Continue Reading
What I love about blogging is finding people who comment on weird combinations of interesting things. Like the impact of facial hair on Presidential politics — it’s not a decisive advantage either way, but Republicans are always more hirsute than… Continue Reading
I’ve been doing a lot of reading and re-reading of the case of Newdow v. Rio Linda Unified School District, the most recent Pledge of Allegiance case from the Ninth Circuit. It is easily the longest opinion I’ve ever read… Continue Reading
Come on. No one should have believed, even for a second, that 55-year-old Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts was going to resign. While a Democrat is in the White House. What a silly rumor. Even if you… Continue Reading
The blogger known as Jon Swift has passed away. His blog was quite possibly the funniest on the entire interent. All you had to know was the tagline: “I am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and… Continue Reading
Chris Clarke is a photographer and nature conservationist who runs a very nice blog featuring some of his photographs and some of his thoughts about the Mojave Desert. Since I’m always amazed that people can find beauty in what all… Continue Reading
You are not immune to this. Neither am I, neither is anyone. Your cultural world view shades, often overtly and powerfully, what you think is real. In other words, facts have ideologies. But it’s more than that. Nudge-like, the manner… Continue Reading
Via Bleakonomy, I see the deeply saddening and deeply disturbing case of Dr. Earl Bradley, a small-town pediatrician from suburban Delaware. Dr. Bradley was arrested and has been formally accused of thirty-three counts of molestation of children, some of them… Continue Reading
There is a fourteen-day limit on the Miranda rule. You didn’t know that? Neither did I, and neither did anyone else, not until this new interpretation of the case interpreting the Fifth Amendment got handed down with this fine piece… Continue Reading
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (a Republican, representing southern Orange County) joins Democratic Attorney General and likely Gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown in saying that the state is “bankrupt.” Which is about right — we’re missing a quarter of our anticipated state budget and… Continue Reading