Re: Jonathan Haidt on Psychology and Politics
How important is perceived consistency? One of Hayek's great themes (echoed by Sowell) is that society is too complex to be understood through the rationalistic speculation characteristic of the French...
View ArticleRe: Jonathan Haidt on Psychology and Politics
Re: “If it is the case that conservatives understand liberals better than liberals understand conservatives, why is that?”And Re: “Conservatives think that liberals are good people with bad ideas,...
View ArticleRe: Payday Lending and Overdraft Protection
If u know ur gunna be in theatre soon, ur single, and don't have a wife/kids....I say why not. And kind sir since I chose to sign the dotted line , and I chose to respond to your "I'm right and your...
View ArticleRe: Move to the Washington Post Site
BOO BOO BOO! This will no longer be my homepage. I'm broken-hearted. A wonderful blog for legal nerds is now part of a major media organization. Also the webpage is much uglier. PLEASE COME BACK!!!...
View ArticleRe: How Rational Basis (D)evolved Into A Get Out Of The Constitution Free Card
Venustesla has chosen a highly one-sided characterization, here. First of all, those who believe that laws limiting marriage, denying access to contraception, banning abortion, or criminalizing sodomy...
View ArticleRe: Gun Control, Mass Shootings, and Political Ignorance
These statistics exclude the overwhelming majority of death-by-firearms, though they capture the most attention. More precisely, mass shootings represent roughly .1% of all homicides by gunfire. IOW,...
View ArticleRe: Law Professors’ Brief in Halliburton
Arguably, liability law exists to discourage behavior that produces net costs to other people. An action by C that randomly makes A a dollar worse off and B a dollar better off doesn't. It's what...
View ArticleRe: Law Professors’ Brief in Halliburton
But a new producer is not doing anything illegal. Just labeling the problem a "pecuniary externality" is a definition, not an argument.Suppose I am damaged as a side effect of some illegal act...
View ArticleRe: Immigration and Political Freedom
"What's libertarian about putting the American taxpayer on the hook for all of the world's problems?"Absolutely nothing! Which may explain why Professor Somin does not say we should. Indeed, believing...
View ArticleRe: Immigration and Political Freedom
RE: Mexicans. Well, they do have the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) backing them up. But, you may be referring to everyone south of Corpus Christi as "Mexican". RE: Arabs. If we are speaking about...
View ArticleRe: Immigration and Political Freedom
Apologies, but if one moves to this country and goes through the atrocious hoops we set up as barriers to citizenship, I feel pretty damned strongly that they should be granted the rights our...
View ArticleRe: Immigration and Political Freedom
So we should exclude them from this country, condemn them to poverty and political repression, tear them from their families and friends all because we don't want to play in half-measures? I am an...
View ArticleRe: Bloggers = Media for First Amendment Libel Law Purposes
Good point. Google does change things due the the wider spread of information.
View ArticleRe: Move to the Washington Post Site
I know I'm well past the expiry here, but I'm hoping someone will check in here and tell me how the heck you're supposed to access the comments on the WaPo site. I'm signed in; I can read the articles;...
View ArticleRe: Kentucky’s War On The Little Guy
A good lawyer knows the law but a great lawyer knows the judge. Lawyers should only have to demonstrate a working relationship with a judge.I know of a lawyer that helped get a couple of judges jobs,...
View ArticleRe: Immigration and Political Freedom
What in heaven's name gave you the idea that "Arabs come to the United States and try to impose sharia here?" No, none, zero, Arabs are attempting to impose sharia in the U.S. The Arabs who are trying...
View ArticleRe: Move to the Washington Post Site
I tried to the new site but never got into it. Never bothered to get an account or comment. The comments don't feel the same as they were here. And the posts are more frequent and mostly seem like...
View ArticleRe: Why the Court should uphold Congress’s power in the Jerusalem...
My position is that even if Congress has the power to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory or Israel's capital, Congress does not have the authority to delegate that power to private individuals,...
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