“Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.”
Category: politics
The Second Amendment and the Living Constitution
Eugene Volokh has an excellent essay on the Second Amendment – and I think it’s obvious that I wholeheartedly agree with him.
Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
Holy crap. If you have any sort of background in economics, the figures laid out in that website are terrifying.
Domestic Spying in the U.S.
Could someone explain to me why more surveillance of U.S. Citizens seems to be necessary? Isn’t a foreign enemy by definition not a citizen?
Can This Nomination Be Justified?
“[T]he president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution. The forfeiture occurred March 27, 2002, when, in a private act betokening an uneasy conscience, he signed the McCain-Feingold law expanding government regulation of the timing, quantity and content of political speech.”