A commentator on this site Blue Foot, just posed a really interesting question that I thought I would take a shot at answering. But the answer got long, so I thought I’d put it in a post instead of a comment. The question was:
“So what’s the path to small government?”
So I’m pretty liberal [...]

The Supreme Court will soon hear a series of cases on whether or not juveniles can be sentenced to life without parole for crimes that aren’t murder.
Personally, I think it is silly to sentence a juvenile to life without parole for any crime.
Take this quote, which is actually a defense of the practice by the [...]

Make sure to check out this op-ed in today’s New York Times. The author, John Cougan, is a lawyer for the public commission in Rhode Island that oversees the health care industry. He argues that a huge problem that contributes to the confusion, denial of care, and legal hassle that surround the health [...]

Politicians are strategic actors. They plan. They scheme. They compromise when they think it will get them what they want, and they hold out for a better deal when they think it won’t. When legislators can’t reach a compromise position (on a budget, or on health care, or on immigration, or [...]

There are about 1.4 million Americans currently in state and federal prisons. And that’s not even counting the hundreds of thousands more in jail. Just so you know, prison is different than jail. Jail is designed as a temporary holding facility for those with short sentences (usually less than one year) or [...]

I am certainly against the “marriage” amendment to the Constitution, and I have some serious qualms with the anti-abortion amendments that get proposed. But the constitution does need to be amended. I believe that the second amendment ought to be rescinded, and that the gray area between presidential and congressional war powers ought [...]

Michigan’s primary is today, as you may have heard. As you may have also heard, neither Barack Obama nor John Edwards appear on the Michigan ballot, and no Democrat has campaigned at all there. Neither has any Democrat campaigned in Florida, which holds their primaries in a couple weeks. The Democratic Party, [...]

One of the great ironies of the Scooter Libby trial was that the same conservatives who have for years fought for high mandatory minimum sentences–and against allowing judicial discretion to reduce those sentences–ended up complaining that the sentence given to Mr. Libby based on those sentencing guidelines was too harsh.  Now we have the second [...]

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed us last Friday.  The court ruled that citizens of the United States do not have standing to sue the government if they cannot demonstrate direct harm to particular individuals,  even if the government acknowledges violating some people’s civil rights.  The issue in question was whether the warrantless wiretapping [...]

This story is about a week old now, but I just had it come to my attention yesterday, and I was curious if any of my readers here had an opinion about it. The case revolves around an alleged rape that happened between a girl and her boyfriend’s brother. According to the girl [...]