Jack Balkin performs a fine service in supplying us with the one-stop-shop style column for Slate attacking Originalism. Balkin’s point is that while Originalism sounds seductive, no one truly adheres to it since it is impossible. The column also serves as a fairly thorough laundry list of hypocrisies by Scalia and Thomas on this matter, [...]
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[09:34] Scott: Gift to Kim Jong Il from U.S. Religionists Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) — Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from U.S. religious leader Rev. Billy Graham and his son, Rev. Franklin Graham. It was handed over to DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun on Thursday by the special assistant to Franklin Graham [...] The Vatican has curiously chosen to wake President from his August slumber to request that he immunize Pope Benedict from a lawsuit in a federal district court in Houston (Southern Division of Texas). The suit arises from events that date from then Cardinal Ratzinger’s days as head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the [...] Our intelligence-challenged president has finally weighed in on Intelligent Design, and has chosen the ‘teach the controversy‘ talking point. “You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes,” the president said. Does that mean that we also teach the tooth fairy theory of dental hygiene? It’s [...] |
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