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.
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.