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Bishops Burning Bridges
When I was in Catholic graduate studies, our instructors would alert us to incoming papal encyclicals. Excitement would build, delectatory anticipation of what Pope John Paul might say. When it was finally promulgated, it would be all the buzz during class breaks, as we sieved out insights about suffering, women, the elderly, and always, always Jesus […]
How Should the District Court Evaluate the Motion to Dismiss the Charges Against Mayor Adams?
Yesterday, I blogged about the Justice Department’s pending motion to dismiss in the criminal case against Mayor Adams. My argument was that the dismissal motion was easy to justify, particularly given the new Administration’s change in priorities for law enforcement. I also noted that the Department’s dismissal motion would be subject district court review under […]
DOGE’s Complicated Story
DOGE update: Last week, some 220,000 probationary workers—those who’d been at their agencies for under a year or two—started getting laid off, a process that should result in 4 percent of the federal workforce being axed once all is done. Many critics have lingered on the fact that 300 of those probationary workers cut were […]
Mortgage Markets and Crony Capitalism
America’s residential mortgage market is mostly contro Read More Article from Mises Institute
Social Security Has More Active Social Security Numbers than the United States Has Population
If you are puzzled why Democrats and the US Civil Service are begging judges to prevent the Trump administration from having access to official US government data, the Social Security data alone explains it. The US population according to the CensusBureau is 334 million, but according to current Social Security records, there are 398 million […]
The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed ‘Orgasm Cult’
When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized “orgasmic meditation,” or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people “discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness,” […]
Claim That Minnesota Agency Retaliated Against Rancher for Petitioning Legislature to Change Law …
From Wagner v. Scheirer, decided last week by Eighth Circuit Judge Bobby Shepherd, joined by Judges Jane Kelly and David Stras: Wagner owns two separate cattle farming operations in Minnesota. The first is a cow/calf operation aimed at breeding, and the second is an animal feedlot operation aimed at raising cows until they can be […]
Are the Dead Nostalgic?
I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish to return to this matter that seems perpetually pertinent, a pertinence, of course, not unconnected to the dead in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else. There are […]
Bishops Burning Bridges
When I was in Catholic graduate studies, our instructors would alert us to incoming papal encyclicals. Excitement would build, delectatory anticipation of what Pope John Paul might say. When it was finally promulgated, it would be all the buzz during class breaks, as we sieved out insights about suffering, women, the elderly, and always, always Jesus […]
How Should the District Court Evaluate the Motion to Dismiss the Charges Against Mayor Adams?
Yesterday, I blogged about the Justice Department’s pending motion to dismiss in the criminal case against Mayor Adams. My argument was that the dismissal motion was easy to justify, particularly given the new Administration’s change in priorities for law enforcement. I also noted that the Department’s dismissal motion would be subject district court review under […]
DOGE’s Complicated Story
DOGE update: Last week, some 220,000 probationary workers—those who’d been at their agencies for under a year or two—started getting laid off, a process that should result in 4 percent of the federal workforce being axed once all is done. Many critics have lingered on the fact that 300 of those probationary workers cut were […]
Mortgage Markets and Crony Capitalism
America’s residential mortgage market is mostly contro Read More Article from Mises Institute
Social Security Has More Active Social Security Numbers than the United States Has Population
If you are puzzled why Democrats and the US Civil Service are begging judges to prevent the Trump administration from having access to official US government data, the Social Security data alone explains it. The US population according to the CensusBureau is 334 million, but according to current Social Security records, there are 398 million […]
The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed ‘Orgasm Cult’
When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized “orgasmic meditation,” or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people “discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness,” […]
Claim That Minnesota Agency Retaliated Against Rancher for Petitioning Legislature to Change Law …
From Wagner v. Scheirer, decided last week by Eighth Circuit Judge Bobby Shepherd, joined by Judges Jane Kelly and David Stras: Wagner owns two separate cattle farming operations in Minnesota. The first is a cow/calf operation aimed at breeding, and the second is an animal feedlot operation aimed at raising cows until they can be […]
Are the Dead Nostalgic?
I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish to return to this matter that seems perpetually pertinent, a pertinence, of course, not unconnected to the dead in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else. There are […]