04 Sep 2015
Constitutional Jurisprudence in 2015 Obergefel v. Hodges, Supreme Court, The Law, US Constitution
Christopher Taylor identifies the point we’ve reached in America’s relationship to its Constitution.
04 Sep 2015
Kubler-Ross Glasses Alcohol, Black Humor, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Stages of Grief
04 Sep 2015
Kim Davis’s Honorable Stand Civil Disobedience, Gay Marriage, Kim Davis, Obergefel v. Hodges
Lots of conservative legal experts, including Antonin Scalia, Jon Adler, and Jacob Sullum have come forward to argue that Kim Davis should either do her job and issue same-sex marriage licenses or resign, Douglas Wilson produced an exceptionally eloquent rebuttal. Read the whole thing.
03 Sep 2015
WTC Steel Added to 2016 West Point Rings 9/11, Traditions, West Point
New York Post reports that a new ingredient will go into the melting pot, along with class rings belonging to West Point graduates of long-ago.
03 Sep 2015
2008 vs. 2016 2008 Election, 2016 Election, Barack Obama, Campaign Logos, Donald Trump
03 Sep 2015
New American Magazine Racial Politics, Ressentiment, Satire, Self Pity
From the People’s Cube via Vanderleun.
02 Sep 2015
Goodbye, John C. Calhoun! Calhoun College, John C. Calhoun, Political Correctness, Racial Politics, Yale University
At the time, in the early 1930s, when Yale was creating the first ten residential colleges, John C. Calhoun was regarded as an inevitable choice for one of their names. Calhoun was only too obviously the single most illustrious statesman and political philosopher to have graduated from Yale. Eighty-odd years ago, the political conflicts of the 19th century, the contest between Federalism and the Rights of the States, Secession and the American Civil War were viewed dispassionately as past history. Yale President James Rowland Angell was born in Vermont. Neither he not the members of the Yale Corporation of that time are likely to have agreed in the least with John Calhoun on Nullification, Secession, or the benevolence of Slavery, but they all properly regarded those matters as settled and the battles and controversies surrounding them as mere history, unconnected practically or emotionally to their own time. Naming a Yale residential college for Calhoun simply accorded with a general American recognition of Calhoun as one of the most influential thinkers and most important statesmen in American history. As Richard Hofstader acknowledged, Calhoun was “probably the last American statesman to do any primary political thinking.” Naming a residential college for John C. Calhoun obviously did not imply that the generally-New-England-bred authorities of that Connecticut University had suddenly converted into Confederate sympathisers. It merely signified their recognition of the accomplishments, personal stature, and historical importance of one of Yale’s most famous graduates. Doubtless, it was also intended, in a minor way, to recognize the national character of the modern university by honoring the champion of the (defeated) Southern section. It appears, now, that the 21st Century Yale under a newer and more cosmopolitan leadership is about to reverse President Angell’s decision and to reject 80+ years of Yale history by removing the name of John C. Calhoun and renaming his residential college. President Peter Salovey, last Saturday, welcomed the entering freshman class and announced an “open conversation” on renaming Calhoun College. We all know what that means. Yale will accede to the loudest, shrillest, most emotionalist, and most radical voices. There will be a narrative about the injured feelings, the wounded sensitivities, of 21st Century African American students. Rational observations will be shouted down, and with complete pomposity and sanctimony President Salovey will express regret, but explain the vital necessity of bowing to contemporary political correctness. Calhoun will be out. His (previously vandalized) stained glass window pulled out and replaced. His name chiseled out of the Gothic sandstone. And you can bet that the college will be renamed, specifically in order to rub it in, for some personage of color, somebody like the world-famous Edward Bouchet, Yale Class of 1874, the first African American to graduate from Yale.
02 Sep 2015
Python Vs. King Cobra King Cobra, Python, Singapore
The fight went on for half an hour on a street near Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Both snakes apparently wandered into the city from nearby jungle. The cobra was subsequently captured and deposited in the local zoo. The python was released in a wooded area, but it had been bitten by the cobra and is not expected to survive.
02 Sep 2015
Ashley Madison’s Hacked Email List Ashley Madison, Hillary Clinton, Hillary's Email Scandal, Humor, William Clinton
02 Sep 2015
I Don’t Always Bear, Humor, Most Interesting Man Meme
01 Sep 2015
Gun Free Zones Gun Control, Left Think, Satire
01 Sep 2015
Guardian Takes Down West Point Law Professor Laws of War, Media Bias, Strategy, The Atlantic, The Guardian, William C. Bradford
Last Saturday, the left-wing British Guardian launched a full-scale marginalizing and discrediting attack on William C. Bradford, an assistant law professor teaching at the US Military Academy at West Point. The attack on Bradford was occasioned by his publication of an academic paper last April which made a couple of colorful and controversial proposals. —————————— Bradford’s paper: Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column —————————— The Guardian’s hatchet job appeared on Saturday, and the next day Bradford was being bundled out the door of West Point, whose representatives were busily disavowing ever having known him. Yesterday, the Guardian was gloating and finishing up a thorough job of carpet-bombing the heretic’s reputation. We are given to understand that Bradford is, naturally, some kind of complete crackpot and congenital liar. Bradford, you see, is alleged to have exaggerated his academical positions (never a problem in the case of University of Chicago Law Professor Barack Obama) and –with no actual proof– his military service. —————————— The Atlantic also piled on, noting that the National Security Law Journal had decided to denounce Bradford’s paper as an “egregious breach of professional decorum” unworthy of publication, to repudiate it, and to publish a four-page denunciation of the Bradford paper by Jeremy Rabkin. —————————— Rules for Radicals 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
01 Sep 2015
Hunter Thompson’s Daily Routine Alcohol, Drugs, Hunter Thompson, The Writing Life, Tobacco
31 Aug 2015
But Who Decided That a Swiss Army Knife Was a “Weapon”? Hoplophobia, Official Idiocy, Pennsylvania, Zero Tolerance Policies
We have gotten used to reading about these little-kid-expelled-from-school-for-possession-of-a-pocket-knife happening in the suburbs of New England or California, but in Pennsylvania? Recently a ten-year-old female violinist was expelled from the toney Valley School of Ligonier because the young musician was found to be using a Swiss Army Knife to remove broken strings from her violin bow. Her parents consequently attempted to enroll her in the public school for their local district, but found her admission jeopardized by the report of her expulsion for “bringing weapons onto school property” from the young lady’s previous school. All this nincompoopery is connected, in Pennsylvania, to a Safe School Act (passed in 1995, and amended in 1997 and subsequently added to) which in the case of a student expelled due to a weapon or drugs being brought on to school property, obligates other schools to apply the same expulsion. The parents are suing on the basis that these zero tolerance policies have inflicted on their daughter a “defamatory stigma.” The Violin Channel
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