Lyrics from John Rich’s latest single, “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”: My daddy taught me In this county everyone’s the same You work hard for your dollar And you never pass the blame When it don’t go your way Now I see all these big shots Whining on my evening news About how their losing billions And [...]

Tags: Music, Populism

An argument for an originalist/intent of the founders reading of the Constitution: View it as a will. When we write a will, we do it so that we may control what others, in the future, do with the product of our life that we leave behind. We dictate how the gains we’ve produced are to [...]

Tags: Law, Philosophy

I told you so. Barack Obama viewed the offices of the Vice President and Secretary of State as simple political bargaining chips, bread for the Democratic circus. Both positions are jobs he intends to carry out himself, and so both of them were filled with people he needed to placate but for whom he actually [...]

Tags: Barack Obama, Politics

So NBC wouldn’t air a tasteful pro-life advertisement during the Super Bowl, but they saw fit to take money from ‘dating’ agency Ashley Madison, who’s raison d’etre is to help unhappy married individuals have affairs? Shame on them. Shame. I’ll be interested to see what the backlash is for this. As a side note, there [...]

Tags: Adultery, NBC