Russ | November 2, 2012
It’s not often that I quote myself (OK, who am I kidding, I do it all the time — just, not here… much) but in reply to a “concern troll” Libertarian commenter at Legal Insurrection I fired an off-the-cuff missive that after due consideration seems to me to be too on-point to get buried. After [...]
Russ | March 27, 2012
The big news in politics this week is the round of Supreme Court oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare individual mandate. It seems patently obvious to me that the mandate is an overreach of legitimate congressional power, and anathema to individual liberty, but there’s no way of knowing how the Supreme Court justices [...]
Russ | February 15, 2012
Daniel Hannan, a UK Member of the European Parliament, spoke last week at CPAC. The clarity and profundity of his elucidation of the history, evolution, and current state of conservative principles puts most American pundits to shame. It’s long, a bit over 27 minutes, but his speech is well worth hearing. Go on, you know [...]
Russ | February 8, 2012
Jeff Goldstein, on the candidacy of Rick Santorum: Santorum is known for being willing to stand up, take questions, and defend his positions intellectually. If he’s given a big platform on which to do that — say, as the GOP nominee for President, where he can speak directly to the American people — I suspect [...]
Russ Emerson : If I could bottle the smell of my kitchen right now, I'd be richer than Croesus. Um... is "Croesus" on the IRS' hit list?
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