I DO love the Onion!
WASHINGTON, DC—A genie freed from a battered oil lamp by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted the conservative jurist a strict constructionist interpretation of his wish for "a hundred billion bucks" Monday.
Category Archives: Random Blogging
Sobering thoughts…..
On this Memorial Day, Paul Krugman revisits California's Proposition 13.
For those of you too young to recall, thirty-odd years ago, California voters went to the polls and made it much, much more difficult for lawmakers to raise property taxes.
Preventive Detention
The always-perceptive Hilzoy zeroes in on the problem with so-called "preventive detention."
If we don't have enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we don't have enough evidence to hold them. Period.
Read it and Weep……
Just when I thought there was nothing left that could surprise me anymore…
Exactly!
In a recent post on Dangerous Intersection–a favorite blog of mine–someone named only "Hank" responds, at considerable length, to a statement from one Albert Mohler, a conservative Catholic quite critical of a recent speech by the Pope.