Northwestern’s James Lindgren has posted “Ideology and Intelligence in Legal Scholarship” (Journal of Empirical Legal Scholarship, 2011, forthcoming), and from its abstract one gets the idea that the paper will be nothing if not controversial (and, I suspect, the replies ironically performative): A variety of commentators have suggested that there is positive correlation between the ideological valence of legal scholarship and the intellectual capacity of the author. In their most

Bill Wilson, ALG: Currently, the $14.2 trillion national debt already stands at 95.5 percent of the nation’s $14.8 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While it is unclear at what percentage of debt-to-GDP that the debt will become too large to refinance, the warning signs are already there that we cannot even meet our current obligations honestly. Pimco reports that in 2009, 80 percent of treasuries were purchased by the Federal

Fleeing the state to avoid doing your job — that is, refusing to accept that the will of the voters have put you in a position whereby you might not get what you want — is now akin to serving your country in Afghanistan. It follows in this fantastical scenario, of course, that by my pointing out how this cowardly squeakhole (and those like him) engaged in a de facto

Because “derangement” doesn’t just fund itself, people. Help a hater out. **** update: About half-way there! Thanks to all who’ve contributed. **** update 2, Wednesday: Meh. Don’t think I’ll get there. I’ll leave this up through Friday. Thanks to all who continue to support derangement and rhetorical stink bombing — particularly when you could be sniffing at it and getting patted on the back for your nuance (which stands in

Ever notice how those afflicted with such derangement — as I am now said to be — are seldom lauded by the left for their good sense and comity, or for their brave willingness to affect what the left has decided is bien pensant (an affectation that allows for inclusion among those select “fair” wingnut HATERS who shan’t as yet be entirely marginalized)? Personally, if I found that I was

Even as House speaker John Boehner signals a desperate desire to take whatever crumbs the Dems will throw him to avoid a government shutdown, the Senate GOP, despite its slight minority status, is doing much of the heavy ideological lifting for fiscal conservatism. And this new BBA — which would limit government spending to 18% of GDP and call for supermajority votes to raise both taxes and the debt ceiling

Yet again, it looks as though the governmental solution to a problem is not to solve the actual problem; it is to define the problem away. CNS: Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office (which is responsible for “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”), told the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday that the federal