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." The distinction, which is not elaborated in ...
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 - 11/5/2008
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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 ...
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ILYA SOMIN: Return of the Conservative/Libertarian coalition?
Plus, calling out the libertarian militia?
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Freedomism is disgusting Not to be a nag, but I updated my previous " building not a tent " post to include a link to Ilya Somin's discussion of a (Social) Conservative-Libertarian alliance. Also I added a link to Jonah Goldberg's post on the peripherally-related subject of conservative theory to my Prop 8 discussion . I want to return to the general concept of economic conservatism, because I think it's quite obvious that the loss of economic conservatism is what drove these two camps apart. Once they lost the one thing that they could agree was worth ...
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