Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Enforcers

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     A great many people, most of them good and decent people, have fallen for the notion that if something is generally deemed “bad” by som...
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Friday, August 21, 2026

Hard Cases And Treating Symptoms

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     “Hard cases make bad law” entered the catalogue of American legal maxims through Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Dealing With Them

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     I’ve been encountering a fair number of graphics like the one below:      We all know what the point is. Look at those plaintive fac...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Carta Obsoleta

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     It’s difficult to deal with the news coming out of the United Kingdom these days.      My Gentle Readers already know about some of th...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Edges

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     "A man once said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist.'      'However,' replied the universe, 'that fact has not cr...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

“Lawful Resistance”

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     A cocky chum stepped forward--one who had to be sent for twice. "You can't do this! It's against the law!"      ...
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Sunday, September 20, 2020

The Only Basis Upon Which Legislated Law Can Rest

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     Quoth philosopher of law Lon Fuller:      If we accept the view that the central purpose of law is to furnish baselines for human int...
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Monday, January 6, 2020

War And Its Law

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     Amid all the caterwauling from the Left about how awful it was that President Trump dared to execute Qassem Soleimani, the most fatuous...
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Friday, January 3, 2020

Ready And Able...But Willing?

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     Never before has there been as much “official force” in America as there is today. It comes in many forms: active-duty military; milit...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Portentous Phrase Pugilism

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     I managed to misplace this Angelo Codevilla piece when it first appeared – possibly because of my travails with the Brave browser – bu...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Quickies: A Fourth Amendment Conundrum

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     Automobiles in public places have long been objects of legal controversy. Cops are eager to have them treated as outside the protection...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Limits Of The Law

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     Legislatures will legislate about anything. it’s why there are so many nonsense laws on the books. Every so often you’ll find a list of...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

An Excellent Article For Gun Owners (And Damned Near Everyone Else)

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     Alex at Ammo.com has alerted me to another excellent article at the site: Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Quickies: The Great “We Are The State”

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     Recently a brief piece appeared at Hot Air that asks “Does The Right To Self-Defense Apply Against Agents Of The State?” This is not ...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

I Didn’t Expect To Post Even Twice Today...

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     ...but here I am with a third piece for this last day of November.      First, please view the video below. It’s quite short. (Feel fr...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Quickies: About The U.S.-Born Children Of Illegal Aliens

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     Most of the time my memory functions like a junk drawer, or perhaps a disorderly basement used for the indiscriminate storage of uncate...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

The Creep Of The Categories

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     “The party in power is smug and arrogant. The party out of power is insane.” – Meghan McArdle, a.k.a. “Jane Galt”      Among the olde...
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Saturday, March 10, 2018

Commitment

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     It’s not that long ago that the several states operated insane asylums to which one could be committed – involuntarily confined for an ...
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