by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Bret Stephens at The New York Times, Can Liberalism Survive Progressivism? If you permit petty vices and crimes to flourish, greater ones will usually follow. If you refuse to police quality-of-life infractions like public drug use or aggressive panhandling,...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 24, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Madison responded to Jefferson in October 1788. He denied that he had ever really opposed a bill of rights; he just didn’t think such “parchment barriers” were very important. He conceded rather halfheartedly that a bill of rights “might be of use, and if properly...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 23, 2021 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
From, Gerard Baker at The Wall Street Journal, Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process: In the minds of the ranting radicals of the Squad or MSNBC, dimly repeated by the president, these so-called rights—presumption of innocence, due process,...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 7, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From National Review by Adam Carrington, Jamelle Bouie Is Wrong about the Constitution: Thus, when Bouie rebuts those who claim that we are a republic by defining democracy itself as representative, not direct, government, he wins a skirmish only to lose the greater...
