Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Progressives want to play Calvinball to remake the Constitution. Calvin and Hobbes was a popular cartoon series about the fantasy life of a six-year-old brat and his tiger sidekick. Calvinball was a game with no set rules, except that Calvin — or on occasion, Hobbes — made up new rules
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In 2022, third-wave feminism has finally seen its doctrines come full circle and bite the feminists in the ass.
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Make no mistake — climate change mitigation is a juggernaut. . . [In 2015], the world is expending 2% of the value of all its gross products and services on climate change mitigation and that number could easily reach 4 or 5% in just the next few years. With that
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The theory of anthropogenic climate change has no reliable scientific basis Two distinguished Princeton professors, Richard Lindzen, Prof. of Earth Sciences, and William Happer, Prof. of Physics, recently testified before Congress on the SEC’s proposed rule change (taken without any Congressional authority) to make all publicly traded companies adopt climate
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The racism progressives routinely condemn is absent on the right, but it is the bread and butter of the daily life of progressives. Can you imagine anything dripping with more paternalistic racism than Jill Biden gathering together a group of woke LATINX types and telling them that they are as
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The decision in West Virginia v. EPA, which saw the five more-or-less originalist judges on the Supreme Court (Justices Thomas, Alito, Bryant, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch) join Chief Justice Roberts to uphold the extra-constitutional administrative state, is gut-wrenching. It will not even be a speed bump on the unconstitutional march of
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To put the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA into perspective, one needs to understand the constitutional issues with the regulatory state, as well as progressive efforts to alter our nation based on a claim that catastrophic, human-caused global warming is imminent. Part I of this series of
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The Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA is being hailed by some as a “blockbuster” that put a brake on America’s regulatory state. The Court held that the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded the limits of the power that Congress delegated to it when the EPA drafted a regulation,
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The Declaration of Independence was published by the Second Continental Congress on this day in 1776. Their audiences were the American colonists, to justify our call to arms, and Britain’s enemies, to assure them of our intent. Thomas Jefferson’s preamble, with his famous proclamation that all people are equal before
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After the Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Assoc., Inc. v. Bruen, the remaining frontiers for the 2nd Amendment are overturning state laws restricting citizens from owning types of weapons in common use or “high-capacity” magazines. It appears (h/t Redstate), based on the most recent orders
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This is a deep dive into the principles underlying the main opinion in Dobbs and the concurrences, as well as the utter lack of principles underlying the dissent. Given the length of the majority opinion, concurrence, and dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., it has taken me a
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We have just had three “Originalist” Supreme Court opinions released within the space of a week, all of which are of great importance in their own right, and taken together, mark a seismic shift towards a return to the Constitution of our Founders that I never expected to see in
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This is a final look at the Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Assoc., Inc. v. Bruen. Part I, analyzing the majority opinion, is here. This Part II will first examine the Bruen opinion’s likely impact on state Red Flag Laws, a key component of Congress’s recent
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The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” – Patrick Henry,
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