I wasn't planning to write anything about the shootings in Newton, Connecticut. It touches on a variety of issues that are of interest to me, but it just feels a little too soon for sober discussion.But then I came across this nonsense: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) weighed in on the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. on Friday, saying the … [Read more...] about Huckabee’s Nonsense
In Which Someone Mistakes Me For a Successful Business
This seems to have been the week for bashing marketers who send silly email messages in the legal blogosphere (although Brian and Scott don't really need a special week for that), and I need to exercise my brain on the new blogging software, so I think I'll do a little bashing of my own.I received an interestingly self-refuting email a few days ago from a salesman named … [Read more...] about In Which Someone Mistakes Me For a Successful Business
The right to keep and bear arms may be coming to Illinois
My home state of Illinois is apparently the last state that still does not provide any way for ordinary citizens to carry concealed weapons. But that may be about to end: In a 2-1 decision that is a major victory for the National Rifle Association, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said the state's ban on carrying a weapon in public is unconstitutional."We are … [Read more...] about The right to keep and bear arms may be coming to Illinois
Catch-22 in D.C. Police Encounters?
According to Jamison Koehler, the rule on police stops in D.C. just got trickier, and it now goes something like this:If you consent to a search or conversation with police, your consent waives your rights to object to what they find or figure out. Without your consent, the police need a specific reason to detain you. If you could legally walk away from an encounter … [Read more...] about Catch-22 in D.C. Police Encounters?
Windypundit On WordPress
This is it, the new Wordpress version of Windypundit. There are lots of tweaks and changes still to come, but I think I can go ahead and make the switch now and worry about the details later.Some of you may have noticed that Windypundit was off the air for a while. Yeah, well, it turns out the switchover didn't go quite the way I planned.About a week and a half ago, the … [Read more...] about Windypundit On WordPress