In April, I wrote about the probability of secession talk if Obama won re-election. For a variety of reasons, I never posted the piece. Today, reading about the petitions to secede filed from 23 states I am drawn back to the topic. The Texas petition now has around 40,000 signatures, so, for academic purposes, let […]
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Obamacare Case Not About Health Care
March 30, 2012
If what I am reading on Facebook, Tweeter, and blogs is any indication, many Democrat friends are completely misunderstanding State of Florida vs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – the Supreme Court case that will determine the Constitutionality of Obamacare. Folks, the case is not about health care. It is not. Not even […]
Part 2 – Historiography
January 4, 2012
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sat with his ideological counterpart Stephen Breyer before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early October 2011. He echoed the perhaps apocryphal story of his meeting years ago with a group of law students. In that meeting, the story goes, Scalia asked the budding jurists what made America more free than […]





November 13, 2012
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