Are aggressive progressive policy initiatives actually a boon to legal conservatism? Michael Barone, Realclearpolitics: Some 14 state attorneys general are trying to raise the issue in court, and pending state laws outlawing mandates could raise the question, as well. Those state laws are obviously invalid under the supremacy clause unless the federal law is unconstitutional. Is it? I would expect an Obama nominee to decline to answer. But Republicans may

Michael Knox Beran, NR The two philosophies that animated liberalism in its prime were widely different in both origin and aspiration. Classical liberty is founded on the belief that all men are created equal; that they should be treated equally under the law; and that they should be permitted the widest liberty of action consistent with public tranquility and the safety of the state. The classical vision traces its pedigree

So I was thinking, it sure would be sweet to lay out today and maybe get a bit of color — until I remembered we’re fresh out of sunscreen. And rather than hop in the car to go get some, or risk naked exposure to the sun’s rays, I decided fuck it, I’ll just type up this post instead. I can’t speak to the overall effectiveness of the strategy, of

Breitbart: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, says he is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill. Stevens says he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. His announcement Friday in Washington had been hinted at for months. It comes 11 days before

I suspect we’ll start seeing more “concern” over an unsustainable economy as the progressive push begins for a VAT tax. Key to the campaign will be to pretend that the unsustainable tax-and-spend economy just kinda happened — and that a VAT tax, which is the next step toward more complete bureaucratic control of the economy — is just the fix we need to avoid economic disaster. Will any mention be

“If Republicans are tired of being called redneck bigots and racist yahoos every time they turn around, then there’s an easy fix: Stop acting that way.” And if that doesn’t work, the unclean bastards can always throw their support behind social policies that reinforce preference based on race. Because honestly, nothing says “end racism now!” quite like legislation that uses race as the deciding factor in determining government contracts or

One of the cooler things about Heaven is its coed intramural softball games. First off, there are no winners or losers, because we’ve made it a rule that you can’t keep score — the idea being that once you remove the element of competition, everyone can relax and not worry about striking out, or booting ground balls, or being on the wrong end of some bulked-up jock’s macho bullshit blame

Dr Boyce Watkins, founder of the Your Black World Coalition and the initiator of the National Conversation on Race, writing for MSNBC: Obama’s race problem just got a little deeper. As the rest of the country is starting to see light at the end of the economic tunnel, the African American community just walked into a deeper, darker crawl space than the one it was in before. The Bureau of