Brickbat: Somebody Forgot the First Rule
The New York City Sheriff’s Office broke up a 200-man fight club being held in a Bronx warehouse. Media reports say the men were fighting, drinking, and smoking but not …
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The Voters Eschewed Extremism on Election Day
Contrary to most predictions, Election Day brought no blue wave. While former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidency, it looks like the Republicans will keep the Senate. Even more …
The Patron Saint of Lawyers
Maybe Trump’s lawyers should have learned a thing or two from the patron saint of lawyers: Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons Total Landscaping. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is …
Criminal Libel for High School Student to Falsely Write That He’d Had Sex with Teacher
This is from earlier this year, but I just came across it; it’s State in the Interest of G.J.G. (La. Ct. App.), written by Judge Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, and joined …
Christians Trying to Convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity
I’m not sure what to think of the newly-elected Rep. Madison Cawthorn. But I entirely agree with Harsanyi that his attempts to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity sound perfectly …
“a homosexual social media website called reddit”
From the Complaint (written by a self-represented litigant) in Lopes v. Reddit, Inc.: The defendants posted in the san jose mercury news and on a homosexual social media website called …
Class 26: Modern Substantive Due Process I
Class 26: Modern Substantive Due Process I Protecting the Unenumerated Right of Privacy (1155-1158) Griswold v. Connecticut (1158-1175) Roe v. Wade (1176-1188) ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of …
Two Men Charged With Submitting >8000 Fraudulent Voter Registrations in Attempt to Get One Elected Mayor
City News Service reports: A man who tried to run for mayor in Hawthorne pleaded not guilty Tuesday in connection with an alleged voter fraud case in which thousands of …
Why Don’t Parents Let Their Kids Have Any Freedom? Q and A With Chasing Childhood Director Margaret Munzer Loeb
Why are today’s kids allowed to do only a fraction of the activities their parents enjoyed? Just 10 percent walk to school. Tree forts have vanished. A 2018 study found …
Abolish the Electoral College? A Soho Forum Debate
The Electoral College is the best means of electing a president compared to any others that might be devised. When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016 even though …