Was Justice Alito’s “not true” the subtler, quieter, more polite black-robed version of Rep. Joe Wilson’s “you lie” outburst? The always smart and provocative Randy Barnett works out the parallels in today’s Wall Street Journal , and finds that Obama is the Wilson-esque boob in this round, since (some of)* the Nine were at the speech as a courtesy to the president: For those who strongly object to the ruling in Citizens United and still do not see the impropriety of criticizing the Court this way, consider Rep.
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Time to Add on Official Judicial Response to the SotU?
As is too often the case in politics, the interesting speculations about his possible downfall come a cropper, and we will be able to blame/credit Ben Bernanke for the recovery/continuing disaster down the line as he’s reconfirmed by the Senate as grand high poobah god king of the central banking system.
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Bernanke’s Back
James Cameron’s Avatar , which features revolutionary advances in character animation and 3D filmmaking, is a movie built to awe, to wonder, to stir great emotion, to make you feel as if you just haven’t lived until you’ve seen two ten-foot tall warrior Smurfs making out in a alien jungle that looks like it was dreamed up by Rainbow Bright and a team of acid-tripping glowworms.
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Blue Man Group
"The worse, the better," supposedly observed Vladimir Lenin. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a Communist revolution in that country
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New at Reason: Ron Bailey on Energy Leninism
