As a fragrant breeze, Elaine Quijano’s question wafted across what had been a pungent VP debate stage. You have both been open about the role that faith has played in your lives. Can you discuss in detail a time when you struggled to balance your personal faith and a public policy position? Tim Kaine answered […]
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Buried in Red Tape and Administrative Law
30 Sep 2016
I am just getting around to reading a book I have meant to read for over a year, Is Administrative Law Unlawful? By Philip Hamburger (University of Chicago, 2014). Besides, this is also a good time to raise the whole issue of administrative rulemaking, regulations and judicial hearings, something that in the last 70 years […]
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Happy Birthday US Constitution
17 Sep 2016
It is Constitution Day once again, but because it fell on Saturday this year, I haven’t seen as much publicity. That does not mean that we ought to overlook it. It has now been 229 years since the new United States met to overhaul its first constitution (the Articles of Confederation) and ended up proposing […]
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Miscellaneous Interesting (and Weird) News
13 Sep 2016
There are all sorts of interesting and disturbing issues and events out there in the news these days, some obscure and others more obvious and with greater implications. Below I simply want to list a few I have been reading about in recent days, and then later perhaps write some longer blogs on some of […]
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The Majority Wins: But What?
06 Aug 2016
Well, the rage now is politics, electoral politics. My colleague Mark Smith has been busy the past few days addressing Wayne Grudem’s qualified support of Donald Trump for president. I am not going there for now. I wanted to say something about the bigger picture of how and why we got to where we are […]
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240 years ago, more or less on July 4 (the actual date of the signing of the Declaration is debated), the members of the Continental Congress signed a document that severed the bonds of the American colonies from their British rulers. For many Americans, this day is still cause for celebration for that reason, as […]
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What Happened on the Way to Richard Posner?
29 Jun 2016
Way back in the late 1970s, when the Law and Economics movement was really getting underway, one of the “stars” of that intellectual movement was Richard Posner, a law professor at the time, and one interested in hos economics might be applicable to law. At the time, I was also developing an interest in economics, […]
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Climate Change Advocates Don’t Like Free Speech
21 Jun 2016
We have been hearing quite a bit lately about the state attorneys generals’ attempts to require information from corporations, non-profit think tanks, university research centers and even individuals regarding so-called “climate denial.” The AGs have alleged that these entities have withheld information that acknowledges the reality and danger of climate change and thus have committed […]
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The Log in Their Eyes
02 Jun 2016
Charlotte Allen had a very thought-provoking article in the latest First Things, entitled “Punching Down” (see it here http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/06/punching-down). The article begins with the saga of the all but forgotten Kim Davis, the hapless county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky who refused to sign homosexual marriage licenses and also forbad her assistant from doing so. […]
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Religious liberty is seemingly coming under greater attack, either culturally or legally. As of now, a good many of the instances of this attack are represented in opposition to Christian attempts to claim what we may call “conscience rights.” What is conscience, that which someone called “that little voice in our heads”? What legitimate role […]
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