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Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous’
While America has long had restrictive drug laws, the “war on drugs” is considered to have begun in earnest in June 1971. “America’s public enemy number one,” President Richard Nixon proclaimed in a press conference, “is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.” […]
Musings on Tyranny
Fellow Libertarians, I am having mid day musings on tyranny while in my home office today. So now you all get to read this. Most of the time when tyranny is discussed in America, people point to government overreach. But what happens when corporations or other large, private organizations start holding such monopolies that they […]
Beep Beep!
“Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith This time, the shooter lives to do some ‘splainin’. Do you wonder if he might […]
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Remand—Still Struggling with Standing
Yesterday, on remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (the mifepristone case) to the district court. As readers likely recall, a unanimous Supreme Court concluded that AHM lacked standing to sue the FDA for loosening the rules governing mifepristone. Indeed, it was […]
From 11 September to 7 October: The Fake ‘War on Terror’ Collapses
Colonization … is the best affair of business in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage … the same rules of international morality do not apply … between civilized nations and barbarians. – John Stuart Mill, quoted by Eileen Sullivan in “Liberalism and Imperialism: JS Mill’s Defense of the British Empire,” Journal of […]
Lower Court Decisions on Pseudonymity Are Chaotically Split
I thought I’d pass along portions of the friend-of-the-court brief that three other law professors and I (four of the very few academics who have written on the law of pseudonymous litigation) put together in support of a certiorari petition in Doe v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. This Part explains how badly split lower court decisions are. […]
Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous’
While America has long had restrictive drug laws, the “war on drugs” is considered to have begun in earnest in June 1971. “America’s public enemy number one,” President Richard Nixon proclaimed in a press conference, “is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.” […]
Musings on Tyranny
Fellow Libertarians, I am having mid day musings on tyranny while in my home office today. So now you all get to read this. Most of the time when tyranny is discussed in America, people point to government overreach. But what happens when corporations or other large, private organizations start holding such monopolies that they […]
Beep Beep!
“Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith This time, the shooter lives to do some ‘splainin’. Do you wonder if he might […]
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Remand—Still Struggling with Standing
Yesterday, on remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (the mifepristone case) to the district court. As readers likely recall, a unanimous Supreme Court concluded that AHM lacked standing to sue the FDA for loosening the rules governing mifepristone. Indeed, it was […]
From 11 September to 7 October: The Fake ‘War on Terror’ Collapses
Colonization … is the best affair of business in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage … the same rules of international morality do not apply … between civilized nations and barbarians. – John Stuart Mill, quoted by Eileen Sullivan in “Liberalism and Imperialism: JS Mill’s Defense of the British Empire,” Journal of […]
Lower Court Decisions on Pseudonymity Are Chaotically Split
I thought I’d pass along portions of the friend-of-the-court brief that three other law professors and I (four of the very few academics who have written on the law of pseudonymous litigation) put together in support of a certiorari petition in Doe v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. This Part explains how badly split lower court decisions are. […]