The Reaction to Trump’s Press Conference is about Class and White Guilt
A guest post from John
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Category: Executive Branch
The (Small-l) Libertarian Case For a Non-Libertarian President
What is libertarianism’s best strategy to gain a legitimate amount of power nationally (and then happily cede it to the people)?
Sloopy believes there is a third, and overlooked, option.
The states and grand juries, Part Three: Reformers weaken, and in some cases destroy, the right to a grand jury
“When Dr. [Samuel] Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.” – Roscoe Conkling
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The states and grand juries, Part Two: Historical vignettes of grand juries under siege
Rather than give a comprehensive history of the victories of “reformers” who curtailed grand-jury rights in state after state, let me attempt to give some historical vignettes, and tie these vignettes together with some semblance of narrative coherence. Then later, I’ll give an account of the triumph of the reformers in their battle against the grand jury.
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James Comey: Jilted Lover or Spineless Chump?
Comey is gutless or Comey is grinding his axe. I’ve made my decision. Please discuss yours in the comments.
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Civil War II: A Trump Impeachment?
trshmnstr considers the likelihood of impeaching Donald Trump.
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Mormons and the Bill of Rights, Part Two – The dirty books episode
I found a way to simultaneously discuss sex and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
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Abraham Lincoln was right (about some things at least)
Let’s discuss something noncontroversial for once.
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Raoul Berger, Originalism and the Bill of Rights, Part Three – Nixon, with Berger and Fries
Tax resistance as treason? – Who gets to snoop on whom? – Impeachment
Read MoreRaoul Berger, Originalism, and the Bill of Rights, Part Two – Special Stripping Episode
I know I promised you some Nixon in this episode, but maybe the stripping will distract you.
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Trump Wiretapping May Actually be a Thing…and it Looks Nasty!
Trump Lotto of The Unforgiving Shadow looks at the Trump wiretapping allegations and the motivations behind it
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Thank You, President Trump
From Mid-Town Orphan Recycling | Over 1 Million Served! “Trump is not a Libertarian, not even close, yet he has brought balance to the force. Somehow, someway, the people of the United States of America elected the best possible candidate to completely undermine the media…and I love it!”
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When the Iron Laws Turn on Regulators
What happens when you give a populist and a bunch of guys who have been friend-zoned by the Republican party the nearly unlimited Executive Power the President wields today? The Iron Laws still apply.
Read MoreTrump Address Liveblog
Trump speech live blog with updates in the article from your intrepid Glibs “staff” and your reactions in the comments. 8:05: Much cheering from a little more than half of the crowd…. 8:08: That hair is...
Read MoreFCC Chairman Calls For Rollback Of Net Neutrality “Mistake”
Proponents and enemies of net neutrality can stop guessing what the new head of the FCC will do. He has made it abundantly clear that he will move to dismantle the rule. “It has become evident that the FCC made a...
Read MoreMarijuana And Unconstitutional Laws
By: The Fusionist So, Spicer (the Presidential spokesdude) said the Trump administration might increase prosecution for state-legal recreational marijuana (as opposed to medicinal marijuana, protected by the Rohrabacher...
Read MorePsychopathic Exhibition On the Menu
Chris Christie ate meatloaf. As many times as this story has been passed from shocked ear to shocked ear, people missed what I found to be the pertinent lede to the story, which defined a damning study in character itself.
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Obama was right to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence
But don’t give the former president too much credit.
Read MoreTrump Derangement Of The Day
As if there was some shortage of derangement and a refill was needed. Sally Kohn outdoes herself. H/T to Grand Moff Serious Man, who digs around in places I dare not...
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