Monthly Archives: October 2012

Had Lunch With Justice Scalia Today…

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Alaska

…he was kind enough to autograph some copies of Heller and his new book for me. Many thanks to the Stanford Law School Federalist Society and the Hoover Institution, whose Peter Robinson, also of Ricochet.com, moderated to the luncheon crowd … Continue reading →

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Well, this might push me to play a video game for the first time since 1996

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Alaska

I stopped playing video games when I finished law school because it was easier to quit whole-hog than to try to limit my playtime. Assassin’s Creed III. I especially like the III part. 😉

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RNS Quote of the Day, Werner Herzog Edition

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Alaska

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons Of Darkness … Continue reading →

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Not Monolithic

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Alaska

Back in 1988, as a naive college student, I attended a Jesse Jackson for President rally at a community college in the black enclave of Pittsburg, California. (I had been a Biden supporter, but he dropped out when he was … Continue reading →

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Rifle Surgery

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Alaska

Some years ago, Jim Rawles casually mentioned that he’d had the muzzles on all of his bolt-action centerfire rifles threaded to accept flash hiders like the Vortex design. I made a mental note that someday, whenever I stopped playing with … Continue reading →

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Michael Jackson Lives!

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Alaska

And (s)he’s pretty damned sexy. I never believed MJ was trying to transform himself into another Diana Ross. Just sayin.’ To clarify: I prefer to believe that somewhere, the pre-facial-surgery Sandra Bullock we all drooled over is sitting on a … Continue reading →

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Coming to a nation near you

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Phil Kadath

It has been said many times that what happens in (the formerly Great) Britain soon makes its way to the shores of the US, and that it is rarely good. Here is another example of something we should all hope … Continue reading →

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Fuck You Too, You Ignorant Old Man

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Alaska

Watching retired Justice John Paul Stevens muttering away at the Brady Center presentation on C-SPAN today, I could only shake my head: [Miller] was generally understood to limiting the scope of the Second Amendment to the uses of arms that … Continue reading →

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As the song goes….

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Phil Kadath

Na na na na, Na na na na, Hey hey hey, Goodbye! The EPA may shift corn away from ethanol use to reduce demand on drought-impacted farms. Only months ago, the EPA was pressing hard to expand the use of … Continue reading →

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“They Deserve It!”

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Phil Kadath

That is the attitude of the leftist blogosphere on the topic of the family of the girl who was told that wearing her Romney-Ryan t-shirt was the same as wearing a KKK t-shirt to her “Democrat school” in Philadelphia. Why, … Continue reading →

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