The Constitution to Blame for Congressional Gridlock?

Apparently, President Obama believes that the Senate’s constitutional mandate to equally represent each state “puts [Democrats] at a disadvantage.” Well, this certainly may be true from his or other Democrats’ perspective (or Republicans’ in different circumstances), but this makeup also represents a novel institutional concept once known as federal republicanism. The States created the federal […]

Gun Control for the State?

Last December in Miami, nearly two dozen law enforcement officers fired upon and killed two unarmed occupants of a crashed vehicle at a scene to which they were responding. Reportedly, the officers fired approximately 50 rounds in an initial volley, during which the victims somehow survived. The officers then took an approximate two minute pause […]

Bigotry, the NBA, and Free Speech

Virtually everyone in America is by now painfully aware that Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling is, by even casual analysis of his own words, a bigot. There is certainly no moral defense for his sort of perspective, but the general reactions of many people associated with the NBA, the fans, and social commentators have […]