volokh.com - 11/5/2008
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Obama the Second African-American President?: No, given the social construction of race, he's clearly the first. But, here's a trivia question: which 20th-century president was "accused" of having recent black ancestry, responded to those rumors with a joke that he wouldn't be surprised if some ...
volokh.com - 11/3/2008
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McCain and Obama: Stark Contrast on Guns Rights
That's the title for my guest op-ed in this
morning's Denver Post . John McCain disagrees with the NRA (and me) on the gun show issue, and he said so when he spoke at the NRA's annual member meeting this ...
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volokh.com - 11/6/2008
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Not so fast: Is Prop 8 an "amendment"
or a "revision"? The state constitutional challenge to Prop
8 turns out to be more interesting than I initially supposed. The California constitution recognizes two types of changes: "revisions" and "amendments." ...
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volokh.com - 11/8/2008
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Mandatory Community Service and Labor Unions: InstaPundit, OverLawyered,
and Coyote point to the Obama transition site ,
which says: The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect ...
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Congratulations Barack Obama, Now How About Those Spending Cuts?
Say Anything —
You weren’t going to forget about this statement, were you President-elect Obama?
...what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.... What I want to emphasize ... is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as- you-go. Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.
During his acceptance speech Obama said he was going to be a President even for the people who didn’t vote for him.
As someone who ...
Can Libertarians and Conservative Get Over Bush?
Hit & Run —
... Much also depends on what the Democrats do. If Obama opts for moderation and keeps his promise to produce a net decrease in federal spending, a renewed conservative-libertarian coalition will be less attractive to libertarians. ...
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