…in California. Congrats to Gail Heriot, who has been fighting this tooth and nail.
Category Archives: Law
Justice
A federal appeals court has ruled that a takings lawsuit against the CDC on the eviction moratorium during covid can move forward.
Unfortunately, if the landlords win, it will be the taxpayers on the hook for this, not the bureaucrats responsible, so it’s not clear how this will create the proper disincentives.
An Environmental Success Story
Grizzlies have become so common in the lower 48 that they’ve become a problem.
I think it’s been well over a century since the last one died in California, but in a sense it was the state animal of the Bear Flag Republic. Though possibly it referred to black bears, which remain plentiful there.
Then And Now
In this 3 min video, I break down the real reasons why America divorced Britain, and it wasn’t over taxes. I recommend American citizens and British subjects alike listen, because history often rhymes. pic.twitter.com/2T2i119EYR
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) August 11, 2024
“General” Harris
We’ve been hearing these kinds of stories for a while now. I don’t think it mentions it here, but I saw another story that reported when she was California AG, she would demand that her staff greet her every morning with “Good morning, General!” I have no trouble believing it, both because it matches other stories about her ego, and stories about her intelligence.
One of my pet peeves is people (including media types) addressing a Surgeon General or Attorney General, as “General So-and-So.” “General” is the adjective, not the noun. Morons.
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How is it that this woman is “Acting President”?
It has been credibly reported that they threatened him with the 25th Amendment if he didn’t drop out of the race. So if that’s true, and they don’t believe that he’s not competent, but removed him anyway, then that would have been a coup. If they do believe he’s not competent, then they have a Constitutional duty to remove him. Either way, this is not “saving our democracy.”
Make up your minds. He can’t be Schroedinger’s President.
NewsGuard
Jonathan Turley, on the latest attempt to suppress non-leftist speech.
[Update a few minutes later]
Tyler Cowen is getting tired of this.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Learn about the “whole of society.”
[Monday-morning update]
More from Powerline. I hope he sues them into oblivion.
The Art Of Democratic Democracide
The Art of Democratic Democracide
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) July 22, 2024
Democrats are destroying democracy by engineering a veritable coup through forcing out Biden from the race—but not from the presidency.
Here are ten of their new rules of American democracy that they have now bequeathed to us.
1) The…
Private Property
…and the birth of a free society. A long but interesting history. It’s useful to note that this will be important in opening up space.
Lowering The Temperature
…begins with ending the lawfare against Trump and his supporters.
Literally Dodging A Bullet
It’s amazing how lucky we are that he had his head turned that way, and was scratched instead of killed like Kennedy. What chaos that would have been. Imagine the Republican convention tomorrow, when he hasn’t even named his heir in announcing his pick for VP, and no one claims to know who it is other than him. Who would be the leader of the party? Who would rise? I’d guess it would have to be Speaker Johnson. He is, after all, currently third in line for the presidency. But would he pick up the chalice, or simply supervise the process of choosing?