Writes Tim McGraw: The fire must have been very hot to bend steel girders. The trees are all burnt, and the leaves are gone. This is a helluva view for a firefighter doing a cleanup. There are no checkpoints like Lahaina, which still has them, this time. I wonder why… The post Fire Damage in Malibu and Pacific Palisades appeared first on LewRockwell.
I was looking at a list of law journal articles published since 1990 that were most heavily cited by courts (generated using HeinOnline), and saw that #10 on the list was a student-written Note, Powers of Congress and the Court Regarding the Availability and Scope of Review (Harv. L. Rev. 2001), cited by over 100 cases. As with many heavily cited articles, this one got many follow-on cites stemming from some early appellate court cites; but that itself […]
We may be in the New Year, but James Bovard is not ready to put the craziness of 2024 in his rearview mirror. Here are some epigrams he wrote to explain the madness of an election year.
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Does the Brazilian government have legitimacy? Many say that what matters is a “social contract”. Really? This concept was introduced in the work Leviathan in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Forgetting this boring part of the story, let’s get to the point. Does the “social contract” not exist?? After all, I have never signed anything that would oblige me to support a system that does not fulfill its basic obligations, such as guaranteeing security, […]
Mike Fox As the world rang in the new year, a terrorist attack shook New Orleans to its core, taking the lives of fourteen innocent people and wounding at least thirty-five more. Revelers on Bourbon Street, known for its laid-back, party-like atmosphere, encountered an individual “hell-bent on causing mass carnage,” in the words of Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Later that same morning, a man detonated a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Both perpetrators crossed state […]
