LDAHL
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I don’t see how Congress could pass a federal abortion law absent a constitutional amendment. Of course, I also couldn’t see how presidents could...

Russia talks a lot about NATO aggression, but that seems to just mean accepting new members from among its former vassal states. Some blame weak...

Like so many federal powers, the original Fair Labor Standards Act was justified on an interstate commerce basis. That, and the income tax are two of...

Sometimes the evil side wins. Is that any reason to give up on resisting evil? And there seems very little doubt as to who is the evil side here. ...

You could say that of many other countries previously occupied by the USSR. Does Great Britain have a right to parts of Canada for the same reason?

Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought Roe was a bad decision that was likely to be overturned. And she was right. People want to treat the courts as a...

I’ll grant that geopolitics often involve amoral or morally ambiguous decisions, but every so often a situation arises that doesn’t have much gray...

I think that’s right. Short of a constitutional amendment, it’s hard to see how we could see abortion as a federal right. I think one of the...

The SCOTUS said the federal government had no constitutional authority to create a federal right to abortion. Which it doesn’t. They didn’t “pass the...

I think the more patient among them would try explaining to you the difference between the rule of law and the rule of lawyers. That criticism of an...

Sure, because once an aggressor is satisfied it’s never hungry again.

I see he’s vetoed the bill. Hopefully some enterprising group will soon be producing some metric of the ESG burden in any given fund. I’m guessing...

If we followed that rule, we’d be speaking German right now. Too the extent we were allowed to speak, anyway.

How many treaties do these people need to dishonor, how many war crimes do they need to commit, how many innocents do they need to murder before...

What would mediation look like to you? “If you stop killing our children we’ll give you another piece of our country”? Didn’t they try that in the...

They’re alive and well on Quora, chronicling Russia’s many victories against NATO troops as they defeat the unprovoked attack from the West. The...

I wouldn’t want either a drunk or a stoner on my general liability policy.

I’ve often wondered: if the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

I understand something like 70% of young Americans are unfit for military service due to obesity, addiction, mental illness and inadequate...

I think both Trump and the media jackal pack will be disappointed at the level of violent response.

At the pinnacle of the fashion pyramid, we see professional beauties adopting the “naked dress” and “free the nipple” trends. The empress has no...

It’s interesting how many hipsters (is that still a thing?) like to dress like dairymen, deer hunters or lumberjacks on the weekends. Or how many...

A lot of those brands got more expensive during the lumbersexual trend, but that seems to have peaked.

What ever happened with the Kim Gardner kerfuffle? It seems to have dropped off the radar.

I for one welcome the coming singularity and look forward to serving our new cybernetic overlords.

Should have said raised. Or better yet, should have said nothing.

Should have said lowered.

Yes, and then we’ll be ruled by a know-it-all adolescent.

All that effort and investment, and we just get lectured by a know-it-all adolescent?

Maybe a case of Tech Lords thinking they were too smart to bother listening to the lowly finance trolls.

Speaking of Planetary Overminds, I think it’s interesting how programs like ChatGPT answer questions with replies that often reflect the biases,...

That’s true. They lowered the threshold for “enhanced federal supervision” from $50 million to $250 billion of consolidated assets. SVB was around...

If anything, it’s more intensive since Dodd Frank.

I think this was more about incompetence than inadequate rules. There are already thousands of pages of banking regulations. In this case, regulators...

If you’re a bank depositor with two or three hundred million in a checking account, and haven’t made use of the various available risk mitigation...

Yes. The day after Janet Yellen said there would not be a bailout, the President was taking a victory lap. The markets love that kind of...

We get our beef processed at a small local place already. Not sure what this guy is crusading for.

Thomas Sowell said something to the effect that he believes all people should be treated equally and judged by the same standards; and that sixty...

You only need to peruse the reader comments to see the truth of what Brooks is saying. Angry. Bitter. Paranoid. Belligerent. Hostile. Certainly not...

Right. They can compromise return for “justice” only if they want to under this rule. Virtue purchased with other people’s money.

I agree that CPAC has degenerated into TrumpPAC over the past several years. They have people calling DeSantis a “Reaganite” as if that was a bad...

Why is that? Granted, the College Board corporation doesn’t have to pay the taxes potential competitors might, but why should it be so costly to...

I see Walmart will be closing their last couple of Portland stores because they “couldn’t meet financial expectations”. The more Utopian the...

Just finished Tom Mead’s “Death and the Conjuror”. It’s a fun exploration of old-fashioned locked room mysteries with a satisfyingly elaborate plot.

I don’t think you need to be a climate change denier to recognize the foolishness of scrapping sources of energy before the replacements are...

She consistently displayed a level of obnoxiousness that transcended political, racial or ideological labels.

I like that they want to gain some measure of control over the southern border. I think setting up a Select Committee on the CCP was a good idea and...

Is the GOP the perfect instrument for my brand of conservatism? No, although even in its present state it’s head and shoulders above the...

Yes. Small, local government without any messianic pretensions.

I wouldn’t like to see it pass, no. DeSantis jumps the shark on the woke-baiting thing sometimes, but I’d be surprised if he signed something this...

I see the President won’t veto the House blocking the DC Council’s proposed new criminal code that leaned heavily into the...

The time to worry is when there is no disagreement expressed.

I’m inclined to agree with you. A proposal by a single state senator doesn’t seem worth freaking over. Unless perhaps there’s a particular governor...

Me too. I think I deserve a country where fewer people mistake hysteria for passion. I think I deserve a country where fewer people can live with an...

I had very good luck working with the WI Office of the State Archeologist on updating property records for old cemeteries.

The Wisconsin state flag includes a sailor and anchor. It also includes a badger, plow, hammer and thirteen lead ingots. Oddly enough, no cow or...

Yes, and considering the ridiculous hack he was running against, I’d do it again. I was pleased to see he was one of the votes against Biden’s ESG...