So I’ve been criticized for not saying enough bad things about President Obama or commenting on this election season. Well, my analysis of the generic D vs. R poll and the particular races suggests that it’s extremely likely that the Republicans will take over the House. Two points of . . . . Continue Reading »
Finally, some common sense from the federal judiciary : A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked government rules on embryonic stem cell (ESC) research funding, a blow to the Obama administration which by executive order had lifted Bush-era restrictions and a victory for pro-lifers fighting to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cato Institute has parted ways with Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, who were, in Slate columnist David Weigel’s terms , “among the Cato scholars who most often find common cause with liberals.” Weigel writes that “you have to struggle not to see a political . . . . Continue Reading »
“This resorting to a knee-jerk superiority of sensibilities is itself a display of neurotic insecurity,” writes Elizabeth Scalia of the press and the center-left punditry, in today’s “On the Square” article, Rhetorical Axes and Park51 . [B]ut more importantly, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was younger and more disputatious (seriously, I’ve toned it down a lot ), I used to spend too much time arguing about the Bible with KJV-only fundamentalists. The debates were about as dumb as unproductive as you’d imagine, but I still wish I could go back with this bit of . . . . Continue Reading »
What is oppression? According to the OED, to oppress means to “govern tyrannically, keep under by coercion, subject to continual cruelty or injustice.” There is general agreement, at least in the English-speaking world, that it is unjust for a government to infringe on such fundamental . . . . Continue Reading »
A court has enjoined the federal government from funding embryonic stem cell research under the Obama policy, as it most likely violates the Dickey Amendment. The Dickey Amendment is a budgetary law passed each year that bars federal funding of destructive research on embryos. Bill . . . . Continue Reading »
Where is Mel Brooks when we need him? The creator of “Spaceballs” is the right person to deal with this item from the Jewish webzine The Tablet:This month, 12 students were initiated into a class of women studying to become kohanot, or Hebrew priestesses, at a retreat center in . . . . Continue Reading »
In the most popular movies from 1991 to 2009, the amount of smoking peaked in 2005 and is now going down, with fewer than half the scenes with someone smoking now than in 2005. Here is a way to visual Shakespeare’s plays . The city of Philadelphia is demanding some bloggers pay $300 for a . . . . Continue Reading »
So you’ve been wondering whether and when you’ll get to hear me at the political science convention in DC over the Labor Day Weekend. The great news is that I’m part of three excellent shows. The bad is that two of them are that the worst conceivable times—8 a.m. Thursday . . . . Continue Reading »
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