Legislation, the deliberate making of law, has justly been described as among all inventions of man the one fraught with the gravest consequences, more far-reaching in its effects even than fire and gun-powder. Unlike law itself, which has never been ‘invented’ in the same sense, the invention of legislation came relatively late in the history […]
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More Kudzu, I Mean Mission Creep
07 Apr 2014
Here in this article, http://watchdog.org/136244/federal-law-enforcement/, are some “classic” examples of Mission Creep in Federal agencies. Hard to believe? Maybe not.
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Mission Creep: A Lot Like Kudzu
06 Apr 2014
If you have lived in or visited the South, you know about Kudzu, the weed that spreads along the ground in a most amazing way, the weed that never dies, or so it seems.. If it is not stopped in some way or other it continues to spread inexorably. It is hearty and doesn’t require […]
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As Dr. Haymond noted in a previous post, the Supreme Court handed down McCutcheon v. F.E.C. today, which, in spirit, is a companion case to Citizens United v. F.E.C. in 2010. Both cases deal with the conflict between campaign finance reforms and Free Speech. We have a long history of campaign reform, including limits on […]
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Crime and a New Kind of Punishment
17 Mar 2014
Perhaps my mind turns by nature toward the morbid, but I found a recent article in the Daily Mail (UK) to be utterly fascinating. Scientists and ethicists appear to be considering the possibility of using drugs and/or altered states of biological reality to redefine punishment. Dr. Rebecca Roache, who is at the center of this […]
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Mr. Putin’s education of Mr. Obama
11 Mar 2014
The Obama Administration is aghast at Mr. Putin’s brazen entry into the Ukraine. As Secretary of State John Kerry says, this isn’t the way a world power behaves in the 21st Century. Doesn’t Mr. Putin recognize the realities of the world we live in? Yet the problem is not with Mr. Putin not recognizing the […]
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In my last post, I was critical of over-bureaucratization in higher education. In this post I am focusing on government abuses, and I just happen to have examples from the local, state and national levels. Such a fortuitous turn of events—I say that tongue in cheek of course. The local absurdity concerns a high school […]
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If you would like the background information on this post, go to Part 1. If you are more interested in the theological issue, see Part 2.) Though I think the theological difference between Jim Crow discrimination and the same-sex debate is important, the comparison also makes constitutional assumptions that are troubling and misguided. There was, […]
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“Administratium” and the Modern Bureaucracy
28 Feb 2014
I will admit, this blog is a bit of a rant. Sometimes I read articles and studies on a single topic and it resonates with me—perhaps too much. Nevertheless, to begin, I have below reprinted a well-known spoof entitled “New Chemical Element Discovered.” It was first published in 1989 by Physics professor William DeBuvitz. Here […]
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Let Them Bake Cakes (Part 2)?
26 Feb 2014
(In Part 1, I talked a bit about the controversy surrounding gay marriage as it relates to providing public accommodations or services from Christians.) For me at least, there is one other question that few seem willing to address directly. Is the current homosexual rights movement analogous to the civil rights struggle of the 1950s […]
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