Vice President J.D. Vance appears to have masterminded a whole blowup between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump: Zelenskyy had been invited to the Oval Office for a press conference related to the signing of a rare earth minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States, through which America could maybe begin to […]
Joe Sobran was one of my greatest friends, and I often thought about him over this past week, because February 23 was the anniversary of his death. He was a man of courage and of the utmost integrity. He began writing about politics for National Review, but he broke with the editor, CIA agent William […]
Back in 2023, I blogged about S.B.B. v. L.B.B., a New Jersey intermediate appellate court case: [T]he plaintiff husband and defendant wife were getting divorced, and the wife claimed that the husband wasn’t giving her a Jewish religious divorce. (The husband “denied withholding the get, claimed he had given the get to the Chief Rabbi […]
An excerpt from Friday’s order by Judge Kathleen Williams (S.D. Fla.) in U.S. v. Martinez: On February 29, 2024, Martinez was indicted on the sole count of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce … after uploading to his private Instagram account a thirty-eight-second recording of him inside his vehicle, pointing a sight-equipped firearm in the […]
Activists in Illinois and Indiana are talkin Read More Article from Mises Institute
The book of Job is a pretty cool book. Some people say all kinds of woeful things about Job. They might even call him a “woe is me,” kind of guy. But there are 42 chapters to that book and Job goes through some phases of change in those 42 chapters. So, it can be […]
[1.] An excerpt from the long decision in Braun v. Day, decided by Judge Mary Rowland (N.D. Ill.) Friday: [Plaintiff] Propson is a resident of the state of Wisconsin and a licensed mortician. Propson operates at least one social media account under the handle “Lauren the Mortician,” where she posts about matters related to her […]
3/3/2019: Schenck v. United States decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March Read More Article from Reason.com
In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish. As host Peter Robinson rattled off the Cabinet list, Friedman gave a blunt verdict on most: “Abolish.” Departments of Agriculture and Commerce? “Abolish.” Education and Energy? “Abolish.” Housing and Urban Development? Gone. Labor? Gone. Transportation? Gone. Even Veterans […]