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Roy Moore (Governor) and Alabama Supreme Court Slate Lose
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There have been a number of articles on these races because of the national issues raised, including the idea that a state court should be permitted to ignore a federal court order that it regards as unlawful. Roy Moore gained fame by refusing to remove a monument to the ten commandments, but when it came…
More on Walmart
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I’ve written a few posts that reference Walmart (here, here, and here) and the various accusations and calls for boycotts that have come out about it. This is one area where my free market bias comes into play. I think that low prices are a good thing, and I don’t believe that Walmart wages and…
Renaming the Unpopular
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I loved this snippet from an interview with Speaker Boehner. In particular, this line stood out: J. BOEHNER: When you say the — when you say the word “compromise”… STAHL: Yeah? J. BOEHNER: … a lot of Americans look up and go, “Uh-oh, they’re going to sell me out.” And so finding common ground I…
Protecting Rights and Fighting Terrorism
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In a comment on her blog, Laura of Pursuing Holiness drew my attention to this story in the New York Times about the posse comitatus and related material about the insurrection act of 1807. First let me note that I consider the posse comitatus to be a good idea, but my primary point in posting…
Dominionists, Dominionisimists, Theonomists and Political Labels
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If you’re expecting me to do a rundown on the definitions of all of these terms, then you’ll be disappointed. There’s plenty of writing trying to define the terms. Jeremy Pierce wrote the key post discussing “dominionismism,” titled simply Dominionismists. In it, he compares those who are concerned about dominionism with Birthers and Truthers. On…
Setting Political Speech Free
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One of my very unliberal positions is on political speech. I very much believe that controlling money spent on speech, whether that speech is in a commercial ad for a product, or in an ad for a candidate, in that candadate’s own speech, or in a journalist’s article is the same as controlling the speech…