Washington in One Easy Sentence – Megan McArdle – Personal – The Atlantic
In Washington, if something’s obviously desirable that means it’s a bargaining chip.
~Mickey Kaus
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Constitutional Tinkering”
Justice Scalia notes (in a Matter of Interpretation if I recall correctly) that what is striking about the 19th Amendment is how quaint it seems that in order to give women the right to vote it was thought that you actually had to amend the Constitution in order to bring that result about. Today, of course, someone would just file a lawsuit and have the judges order that result.
In Keep Your Identity Small Paul Graham talks about what is common to religion and politics.
I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people’s identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that’s part of their identity. By definition they’re partisan.
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