Ed Morrissey is flat wrong when he says that Obama contradicted himself about the D.C. gun case.- June 28, 2008 Here's the video that Morrissey thinks shows a contradiction so obvious that it means Obama doesn't "get YouTube":Both statements are so long that it's hard to match up all the elements and find what is supposed to be a contradiction. (I always wonder why we find Obama so exciting when his rhetorical method is often to bore us to the point of inattention.)Morrissey says:Yesterdays assertion by Barack Obama that he never said the DC gun ban overturned by the Supreme Court was constitutional or...http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/ed-morrissey-is-flat-wrong-when-he-says.html "As always with Obama, it's a question of who the rubes really are. It's the power of glamour."- June 28, 2008 Writes Glenn Reynolds, quoting me and possibly implying that I'm one of the rubes. On "glamour," he links to this, from Virginia Postrel. Postrel makes a distinction between "charisma" "a personal quality that inspires followers to embrace the charismatic leader's agenda" and "glamour" which "encourages the audience to project its own yearnings onto the glamorous figure."When voters motivated by charisma disagree with the leader they've backed, they support him anyway and possibly even...http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/as-always-with-obama-its-question-of.html Kabbalah blahs.- June 28, 2008 Was it really religion that drove a wedge between Guy Ritchie and Madonna blog advertising blog advertisinghttp://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/kabbalah-blahs.html Exorcism and the First Amendment.- June 28, 2008 The Texas Supreme Court reversed a judgment against the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God Church:The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, said the church's exorcism sessions were a matter of church doctrine and were thus subject to certain, though not absolute, First Amendment religious protections....In her original suit against the church, Laura Schubert said she suffered lasting emotional trauma in 1996 when, on two separate occasions in one week, church members held her down and "laid hands" on...http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/exorcism-and-first-amendment.html Krauthammer frets about Obama's flipflops.- June 27, 2008 Here. Every single one of those flipflops has been an improvement, in my opinion, so am I supposed to reject Obama for flipflopping I voted for Obama in the Wisconsin primary in part because I predicted he'd turn out to be flexible and pragmatic. I do agree with Krauthammer that it's funny the way the people who fell for the Obama of the primaries who, unlike me, actually liked those positions he was taking are letting him get away with the flipflop. I suppose, just as I convinced myself that.http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/krauthammer-frets-about-obamas.html Castrate rapists Bobby Jindal is on the same page as radical feminists.- June 27, 2008 TPM has this:This is one of those places where the right wing is on the same page as radical feminism. I immediately thought of a poster I saw years ago in Amsterdam. This was back in the days when I carried a sketchbook instead of a camera:Click here to enlarge. Here's the relevant detail:To be fair, Jindal would use chemicals instead of scissors. (And I know the scissors are lopping off the wrong body part.) blog advertising blog advertisinghttp://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/castrate-rapists-bobby-jindal-is-on.html Happy Friday.- June 27, 2008 blog advertising blog advertisinghttp://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/happy-friday.html What's not "classy" about fashion and the human body- June 27, 2008 And since when is feminism about staying "classy" And are those mudflap silhouettes you've got there classy blog advertising blog advertisinghttp://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-not-classy-about-fashion-and.html Scalia and women's rights: A handgun "is easier to use for those without the upper-body strength to lift and aim a long gun."- June 27, 2008 In District of Columbia v. Heller, yesterday's Second Amendment decision, Justice Scalia responded to the argument that "it is permissible to ban the possession of handguns so long as the possession of other firearms (i.e., long guns) is allowed":It is enough to note, as we have observed, that the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon. There are many reasons that a citizen may prefer a handgun for home defense: It is easier to store in a...http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/scalia-and-womens-rights-handgun-is.html The morning after the Second Amendment case.- June 27, 2008 1. I did an hour-long call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio at 6 a.m. this morning. You can stream the audio here. We had lots of callers and in case you're wondering how things are in Wisconsin every single one supported gun rights.2. Here's lawprof Randy Barnett in the Wall Street Journal, making some predictions. 1. The Second Amendment will be applied to the states via the 14th Amendment. (This issue didn't arise in the D.C. case, but "Justice Scalia acknowledges that the 39th Congress...http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/morning-after-second-amendment-case.html |