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Going to the Mat: Three to Read: Crime and Punishment Edition
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Tuesday, February 05, 2013. Three to Read: Crime and Punishment Edition. A couple of weeks ago, Prof. Glenn Reynolds (a.k.a. the Instapundit) posted a short paper on SSRN called Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime. As this Boston Globe story by Leon Neyfakh attempts to discuss. A plea bargain system of justice is the most efficient way to appear "tough on crime" and to address the t...
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Going to the Mat: "America’s problem isn’t gay marriage; it’s marriage."
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. America’s problem isn’t gay marriage; it’s marriage.". And guess what — nothing has happened to the institution of marriage, except, sadly, from those heterosexuals deserting it. And that is clearly not the homosexuals’ fault. Check out my soccer blog at Nutmegs and Stepovers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I'm Listening To in the Car. The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
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Going to the Mat: The Procreation Question
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Pointed out, Justice Breyer went after this concept? In this view, marriage is about children and not adult desire because it is a device to. Rein in male desire. To keep men from fathering children they aren't going to raise. It's not that marriage can keep that bad thing from happening. It just makes it. That gay people can be excluded from marriage? Are forbidden to do? Hull Z...
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Going to the Mat: "[A] democracy should not be dependent for its major decisions on what nine unelected people -- from a fairly narrow background, a legal background -- have to say."
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Monday, March 18, 2013. A] democracy should not be dependent for its major decisions on what nine unelected people - from a fairly narrow background, a legal background - have to say.". Said Justice Anthony Kennedy,. A man who sits on the fulcrum of a relatively ideologically divided Supreme Court. Check out my soccer blog at Nutmegs and Stepovers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I'm Reading Now.
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Going to the Mat: University to Offer Commercial Space Flight Degree
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Thursday, February 07, 2013. University to Offer Commercial Space Flight Degree. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University plans. To offer a Bachelor's Degree is Commercial Spaceflight beginning in the fall of 2013, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has announced plans to launch the nation's first ever bachelor's degree in Commercial Space Operations. I wonder if an...
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Going to the Mat: March 2013
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Pointed out, Justice Breyer went after this concept? In this view, marriage is about children and not adult desire because it is a device to. Rein in male desire. To keep men from fathering children they aren't going to raise. It's not that marriage can keep that bad thing from happening. It just makes it. That gay people can be excluded from marriage? Are forbidden to do? And gu...
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Going to the Mat: December 2012
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Friday, December 21, 2012. Does a fine job explaining why we should take a deep breath and grieve at these times and not try to make any kind of policy decisions:. The desperate need for answers – better yet, for an. On Sunday. "These tragedies must end." At the level of heart and gut, who doesn't share that feeling? None of the nostrums prescribed after this year's shooting rampages in Connecticut and Col...
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Going to the Mat: More on Gay Marriage
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Tuesday, March 26, 2013. More on Gay Marriage. I have posted a few pieces on gay marriage. Indeed they have probably become firmer if anything. The fact of the matter is, I don't think that many gays in this country are going to be particularly happy with the rulings on these cases when the opinions come out in June (most likely June). The fundamental truth is that we are still having a debate in this ...
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Going to the Mat: October 2012
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Friday, October 26, 2012. I ran across this story when cruising through my RSS feed: Chik-Fil-A Thrives Despite Gay Rights Issue. And I thought is pretty good piece. Here is a key passage in the story:. In a social-media-crazed world, any PR can be good PR — particularly if it has strong appeal to a group of ardent supporters. Witness the recent jump in contributions to LiveStrong Foundation at a...Chick-f...
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Going to the Mat: February 2013
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Going to the Mat. Wrestling with Issues and Ideas in politics, the law, education, and other stuff. Sunday, February 10, 2013. Shooting Women in L.A. LA cops looking for former cop and suspected cop killer Christopher Horner shot 3 bystanders according to this report. 3 bystanders reportedly shot by police during hunt for murder suspect Fox News. Two of the bystanders were Women! Women delivering newspapers. Like Horner would driving a paper route on his escape from the cops. Links to this post. The new ...
