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The Abolition of Marriage

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Lee

Having failed to legalize gay marriage almost everywhere by democratic means, a proposed new approach by its advocates is to revoke marriage rights for heterosexuals, in a kind of retaliatory equalization. In effect, the idea is to abolish the legal … Continue reading →

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Socialism, Polls, Matt Drudge

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Lee

You’ve probably heard that John McCain has denounced Barack Obama’s ‘spread the wealth’ formulation for tax policy as socialism. It’s an inflammatory but not unjustified charge, as a good definition for socialism is the equitable distribution of wealth to the … Continue reading →

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Medifraud

Posted on August 21, 2008 by ChrisB

Michael F. Cannon at Cato blogs about a NYTimes article on the rife fraud found and covered up at Medicare. A confidential draft of a federal inspector general’s report claimed that the behavior they found at the Medicare Administration was … Continue reading →

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Because Who Really Needs Evidence Anyway?

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Unbelievable: The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement. “Mandating such proof could thus have the pernicious effect … Continue reading →

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Boumediene — The Great Sandbagging

Posted on June 13, 2008 by MichaelW

UPDATE: Welcome QandO readers. Please look around after you’ve finished with this post, but McQ says you have to go back over to QandO when you’re done … but I won’t tell if you won’t. _____________________________________________________________ The recent Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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Law & State in Russia

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Lee

Video of Robert Amsterdam speaking at the University of Illinois about the political-symbolic nature of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s prosecution for fraud in 2005. The transformation of the Khodorkovsky trial into a grotesque perversion of justice is enormously revealing about the nature … Continue reading →

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Errors in Modern Gender

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Lee

Meet Alan Finch (video report). Alan became Helen Finch at 21, through sexual reassignment surgery…and then became Alan again when he was thirty. As you can see above, the results of his original surgery were extraordinarily effective. But Alan has … Continue reading →

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Seeking Justice

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Peg

Attempting to achieve absolute equity and fairness in our justice system is impossible.  I could list a dozens reasons why this is so – and I doubt that many would seriously argue with me that it is so. Still, that … Continue reading →

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Against Sharia

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Lee

Ali Eteraz takes a lengthy, sober and sympathetic look at the various arguments for granting jurisdiction to Sharia courts over Muslims in UK law. He rejects them all to good effect.

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Talking points for the modern Muslim

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lance

Ali Eteraz gives his fellow Muslims the rationale for opposing Sharia courts being imported into the west: 14 – Liberal democracy, as is, is perfectly compatible with Islam You aren’t making your country more Islamic or even earning more reward … Continue reading →

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Home & Land Defense

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Lee

There’s a moment in Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we’ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the … Continue reading →

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Sharia Law Enforced in Texas!

Posted on February 8, 2008 by ChrisB

Well, kinda. After the whole row over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s declaration that Sharia Law in Britain is “unavoidable“, Eugene Volokh notes that it has been allowed in some US court, in a way. It seems some parties entered into … Continue reading →

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A New Nigerian Shakedown

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Jonathan Boeke) The latest 419 scams aren’t the only nuisances for American businesses emerging out of Nigeria this year. Using the vast archive of documents made public during the 1990s epidemic of class action lawsuits against tobacco companies, Nigeria … Continue reading →

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Me, Greg, Andrew and the two Glenn’s

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Lance

(Listening notes: Magnetic Fields, Husker Du, Queen, Soft Cell, Indigo Girls, The Smith’s, REM, Pet Shop Boys, B-52’s, Scissor Sisters. A homage to Andrew Sullivan of sorts.)

I am here to step into the breach and defend Glenn Reynolds from two people I admire a lot. Continue reading →

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