All hail judicial oligarchy.  “Judge puts Rep. John Conyers on primary ballot”: A judge on Friday ordered U.S. Rep. John Conyers to be placed on the August primary ballot, overturning a decision by Michigan election officials who found the Detroit Democrat ineligible because of problems with his nominating petitions. Many petitions were thrown out because the people who gathered signatures weren’t registered voters or listed a wrong registration address. That

To avoid having to appear before the select committee.  The coward. Wonder if he’ll blame the US consulate staff and the two dead SEALs for instigating the attacks.  After all, his career has gone pretty well for a guy whose claim to fame is marrying wealthy and lying about the behavior of his fellow service men, essentially aiding-and-abetting the North Vietnamese.  Though in fairness, there’s a better-than-even chance that this

I won’t reprise my linguistic argument  here– short version:  intentionalism! — to defend the name “Redskins,” initially meant as a honorarium for a Native American with whom the team’s founder was friendly, and now, a conventional referent to a DC football team, not to native Americans either in specifically or in the aggregate.  Because honestly, the current furor is just more PC bullshit meant to show private industry that politicians