You say fidelity to the Constitution and deference to law makers, she says empathy and policy creation. Tomato, tomatoh.
May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009
Prop 8 Upheld [Dan Collins]
California’s State Supreme Court upheld Prop 8 today. More than a victory for traditional marriage, this was a victory for the rule of law, regarding California’s referendum process. Ed Morrissey notes that because the gay marriages that were performed during the interim are grandfathered, this opens the door to years of competing referenda, and that’s true. What we’ll see is people arguing equal protection grounds, even though the argument is
May 26, 2009
Statistician Needed [Dan Collins]
Doug Ross: A tipster alerted me to an interesting assertion. A cursory review by that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors. To quickly review the situation, I took all dealer owners whose names appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this
May 26, 2009
The Death of Literary Studies [Dan Collins]
Yesterday, Darleen wrote about the dust-up over graduate student putz Sean Parrish’s typically stupid assertions regarding what the academy is all about, and as others point out, if he’s right, then all literature departments ought to be made portions of social studies and political science departments. Approaching this subject, I feel like Jeff does whenever he feels compelled to make the same arguments regarding intentionality with respect to the endless