Hillary Clinton arrives at the courthouse

The intersection of airport and politics

The intersection of age and politics

The intersection of ice skating and politics

What?

https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1235556942002581506

Biden promises tax increase

Kudlow on February jobs and near term economic outlook

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Headline of the day (satire? you decide)

Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces

Trump Town Hall moment

I wasn’t sure how he would do in this type of setting, but I thought he did very well.

Biden, the early years

Originalism, it’s a good thing

JOHN O. MCGINNIS:

“…The nation’s legal culture ultimately determines how the Constitution is interpreted. When originalism had fallen into desuetude, the Warren Court decided cases without substantial, if any, consideration of very plausible originalist positions. It did not even deign to respond to overwhelmingly powerful originalist arguments, such as those made by Justice John Marshall Harlan in dissent in Reynolds v. Sims. That kind of performance is no longer conceivable because originalism has established an important foothold in the legal culture.

This new culture is not only a consequence of having originalist judges but also of having originalist scholars analyzing the meaning of constitutional clauses. There is a necessary division of labor between judges and scholars. Judges cannot generally be expected to do original research. They must rely on the work of experts, transmitted to them through the adversary system. We have seen this collaboration transform the law before: Justices translated the free market antitrust theories of scholars like Robert Bork and Richard Posner into a newly coherent doctrine.

Moreover, one of the obstacles to the growth of originalism has been the claim that much of the Constitution is indeterminate—that is, that its key provisions, like the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause, do not a have a meaning sufficiently clear to generate legal decisions. But as the culture of originalism gains hold, scholars are showing that the inability to define the meaning of these clauses is not due to their indeterminacy but our ignorance of their legal meaning. Modern originalism recovers much knowledge that was lost during its years of abandonment…”

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Headline of the day

Voters Rejected Every Candidate the Media Championed; Isn’t it Great?

The View program on politics and Coronavirus

You could not pay me to watch that show

On the education apocalypse

Worth clicking over

Stephen Kruiser:

“…We’re going to lead off today with a topic that is sadly evergreen and that needs to be written and talked about until it no longer is. Higher education in America is a pathetic, roiling cesspool of leftist lunacy that works feverishly to mint new socialists/communists/whatever every day right under our noses…”

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Less than 2 percent of Harvard faculty are conservative, survey finds.

Gaffes, or something else?

I agree with this. Biden is not looking super good. He seems to have deteriorated in just the last few months.

Doug Santo