Conservatives Against Force-Feeding Terri Shiavo
"The complaint in the Schiavo case," by Ann Althouse, Althouse, 21 March 2005, http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/03/complaint-in-schiavo-case.html."Shiavo," by Jonathan H. Adler, The Corner, 22 March...
View ArticleFederalism on Homosexualism
"House OKs citizen vote on gay marriage," by Jean Hopfensperger and Conrad Defiebre, Star Tribune, 1 April 2005, http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5323674.html (from Democratic...
View ArticleLocal Government And Democracy
"Everything is Meaningless [Chapter 1:3,8-11]," attributed to King Solomon, The Book of Ecclesiastes, circa 300 BC,...
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James Madison Wants Union with Mexico (to avoid becoming like France)
"Federalist No. 10, or, The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection," by "Publius" (James Madison), Daily Advertiser, 22 November 1787,...
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The End of Omaha Public Schools
"Omaha Schools Split Along Race Lines," by Scott Bauer, Associated Press, 13 April 2006, http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1841310 (hat-tip: The Corner)."Omaha Public Schools,"Wikipedia, The Free...
View ArticleAn Economic and Political Union of Fifty Member-States (even when it comes to...
"May a plague descend on both their houses! May their manors and stables burn to ash! May the Lord of Hosts strike their names, and may even their sons forget their fathers! May beetles, and locusts,...
View ArticleLet the Voting Rights Act Expire
"Bigotry Beneath the Fog," by Eugune Robinson, Washington Post, 23 June 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201466.html (from MyDD).My old nemesis, the Voting...
View ArticleThe Right to Self Defense (as reserved to the States Respectively, or to the...
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America readsThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the...
View ArticleParens Patriae
I'm more sanguine about Massachusetts v. EPA (the "global warming case") than Ed Whelan. While the court's four liberal justices got the result they wanted (pushing the EPA closer to regulating CO2...
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Federalism, Counterinsurgency, Christianity, and the Klan
Barnett ponders Brave New War...One thing Robb's book made me realize: Core states tend to be bottom-heavy (more government below and thinner on top--e.g., the U.S. police structure), whereas Gap...
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