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The Horror!
As I reported a couple of weeks ago, George Mason University has renamed its law school after Justice Antonin Scalia. As one might expect, a lot of GMU faculty members…
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The Continuing Relevance of Magna Carta
Some western intellectuals have tried to dismiss Magan Carta as an anachronistic irrelevance. However, as Roger Pilon explains at Cato.org, in reality it remains a potent symbol for the still revolutionary ideas of limited, constitutional…
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Right Said Roger
Cato genius Roger Pilon had an article in the Wall Street Journal over a week ago that I believe takes the correct position on gay marriage in our Constitutional Republic.…
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Commentary on King v. Burwell
Take your pick, they’re all good: George Will Jonathan Adler Elizabeth Price Foley Josh Blackman Yuval Levin Ilya Shapiro Roger Pilon Michael Cannon Oren Kerr But if you only have…
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A rejoinder to Senator Whitehouse
Several months ago, Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse was among the imperious signatories to a letter to the John Locke Foundation (and numerous other organizations he dislikes because they don’t…
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Not a good advertisement for grad study in econ at NC State
In this Cato@Liberty post, Roger Pilon points out that the woman who spearheaded Seattle’s minimum wage increase holds a PhD in economics from State. I’m pretty sure that nobody in…
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Roger Pilon attacks the ridiculous “leftist billionaires good; right-wing billionaires bad” morality play
The leftists keep telling America that when their super-rich give money for politics, it’s just motivated by concern for the well-being of the country, but when the super-rich on the…
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Roger Pilon gets at the heart of the problem in the Hobby Lobby case
In this Cato@Liberty post, legal scholar Roger Pilon gets at the heart of the philosophical problem in the Hobby Lobby case, namely that it treats religious objection as a special…
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In trouble almost everywhere, Obama decides to save the planet
Oh great. As we learn here from Roger Pilon, Obama is going to embark on a campaign to save the planet. He won’t do that through legislation, but instead through…
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Businesses against free markets
It happens a lot — business organizations lobby for restrictions on competition in their particular industries, always under the cover of professed concern about consumers. Cato’s Roger Pilon writes here…
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Another critique of the president’s Ohio State address
Wall Street Journal readers will encounter Roger Pilon‘s reaction to the president’s commencement address at THE Ohio State University. (Anyone who has ever dealt with people associated with my hometown…
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Progressive tribalism on steroids
That is what Roger Pilon calls Obama’s pathetic inaugural speech. Lots of excellent analysis.