Feb 2, 2012
Dina Galassini does not seem to pose a threat to Arizona's civic integrity. But the government of this desert community believes you cannot be too careful. And state law empowers local governments to be vigilant against the lurking danger that political speech might occur...
Jan 31, 2012
War, said James Madison, is the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, War is the health of the state. Hence President Barack Obama's State of the Union hymn: Onward...
Jan 23, 2012
The Supreme Court can pack large portents in small details. When in late March it considers the constitutionality of Obamacare, there will be five and a half hours of oral argument the most in almost half a century.
This is because the individual mandate (Does Congress'...
Jan 20, 2012
Shawn Nee, 35, works in television but hopes to publish a book of photographs. Shane Quentin, 31, repairs bicycles but enjoys photographing industrial scenes at night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department probably wishes both would find other hobbies. Herewith a...
Jan 17, 2012
Thanks to globalization, and to containerized shipping that began in 1956 and makes globalization work, commodities swiftly move vast distances around the planet.
Wal-Mart alone imports 400,000 containers a year. Trade flows can, however, be deflected or even defeated by...
Jan 12, 2012
They are nearing 70 now, the 11 men who were 12-year-old boys in 1955 and who are remembered for the baseball games they could not play.
They were actually, with their matching blue blazers and striped ties, they still are -- members of the Cannon Street All Stars.
The...
Jan 4, 2012
The complaint that Iowa is not a typical American state is true but trivial because there is no such state. Can you name one whose political culture, closely considered, is more like than unlike any other state's? Anyway, someplace has to go first, and it should be...
Dec 30, 2011
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is famously liberal and frequently reversed. Recently, however, a unanimous three-judge panel of this court did something right when it held that bone marrow donors can be compensated. In effect, it revised a law, the National Organ...