Obiter Dicta
Global Warming and the Death of the Long View It’s the sad fact of our culture today that no one likes the long view. The long view is a bad sound bite. The long view doesn’t inspire anger or passion. Putting issues into proper perspective, which generally...
Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more...
Slave states vs. free states, 2012
A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as...
On School Segregation
Despite declining residential segregation for black families in the United States, school segregation for black students remains very high — and it is increasing most dramatically in the South, which has led the nation in desegregation thanks to the victories of...Obiter Dicta
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has Read More
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