You’ve heard me mention, from time to time, that my criticism of legal conservatism, broadly speaking, is that the conservative component of the libertarian-conservative alliance that makes up legal conservatism is too often reliant on stare decisis — and so too deferential to precedent — to beat back bad law that has become entrenched. Libertarians, on the other hand, are more amenable to so-called “judicial activism” — if in fact

Is it any wonder why big corporations eventually warm to the idea of corporatism / fascism? Share the (people’s) wealth! The Durbin amendment imposes a price control scheme on the fees oil companies and retailers pay when they accept payment by credit cards. The amendment was conceived and pushed for by lobbyists for big oil companies and big retailers like BP and Wal-Mart. Their goal is simple — shift the

oatmeal: “What’s with all the fuss over ‘high-fiber’ breakfast cereals lately? In my day, if you needed that badly to take a dump, you ate a fistful of prunes, downed a pot of black coffee, and grunted one out like a birthing Kodiak bear. And you liked it. ” — Seriously. What a bunch of pussies Americans have become.”*