Category Archives: politics

the right of defense

It’s odd to see US v Rosenthal spun (e.g. here) as a demonstration of the need for juries to be advised of their power to nullify, after some of the jurors said they would have nullified had they known all … Continue reading

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US v Rosenthal

No surprise here: ‘Guru of Ganja’ Found Guilty of Federal Marijuana Charges. (Link from Rational Review.) Deliberating for a day, the 12-member jury concluded that Rosenthal, the self-described “Guru of Ganja,” was growing more than 1,000 plants, conspiring to cultivate … Continue reading

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meet Alec Rawls

An Un-republican Form of Government In 1987, the California Sheriffs Association sponsored a bill in the state legislature to ban its electoral competition. Since then, only current or recent members of the law enforcement establishment have been allowed to run … Continue reading

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meet Mary Rosh

Oh dear: John Lott, scholar-darling of the Gun Lobby, may be dirty. (Julian Sanchez of Cato broke the story.) I hope the Gun Lobby (statist-speak for all of us who don’t buy the victim-punishing dogma of Feinstein, Schumer, Brady et … Continue reading

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calm down, professor

Glenn Reynolds writes: NO ANTI-SEMITISM HERE. Publish that cartoon with an obviously Arab figure and you’d be charged with “hate speech.” I don’t see what the fuss is about. Is it Antisemitism to compare a Jew to a Greek god … Continue reading

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the competition is . . stiff

How can we remain competitive on the world stage without single payer health care?

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if looks could wound

I hear through Dad that the Russian Government is incensed at Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers. Why? (There was a pause as Dad gave me time to guess. I had no idea.) Because Gollum looks like Esteemed Comrade President Putin!

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