A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
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El Nino, not that innocent
De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Not at this site, fella.1 The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a conservative hero, but, to my mind, at least, he was vastly over-rated, particularly in his own mind. To begin with, I will not be the first to point out that Nino was one of the infamous…
Justice Scalia: Don’t worry, I’m still an asshole
Yes, in case you were worrying, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia is still an asshole. In the Court’s recent oral argument on Arizona’s xenophobic legislation mandating police harassment of foreign-looking folks, reported by Damon Root for Reason, Nino showed himself to be heartily xenophobic, with precisely zero patience with “people who have no…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Anthony Kennedy: Wasn’t he the guy who appointed George Bush president of the United States?
Yes, he was. Anthony Kennedy was one of the unholy five justices so damned afraid Al Gore might have actually carried the state of Florida, as he carried the nation by a plurality of almost half a million votes, that they rammed through Curious George’s election the Constitution be damned. “Great cases, like hard cases,…
Passive-aggressive hypocrisy hath made its masterpiece: The Volokh Conspiracy’s conspiracy against the rule of law
The Volokh Conspiracy is a website that describes itself as “Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent”. They forgot to add “Frequently Lukidist”. The eponymous founder of said conspiracy is Eugene Volokh. To call Gene’s c.v. “glittering” is probably the understatement of the decade. A bona fide mathematical genius, he…