John Edwards

    The Perils of Complexity

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  June 9th at 01:35 PM  | 

    As a practicing lawyer, I naturally have a professional interest in vague and/or complex legal rules that require lots of expensive legal research, training and experience to understand and explain. But complexity isn’t just costly to consumers of legal services, and thus a burden on business as well as on citizen access to the courts. It’s also a drag on the economy and on personal | Read More »

    Scott Brown, Ron Paul, The CPAC Straw Poll and 2012

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 06:45 PM  | 

    Let’s talk just a little about the 2012 presidential election. I’d like to make three related points: (1) Nobody should be touting Scott Brown as a 2012 presidential candidate. (2) The GOP is going to be picking from a bench that is short on candidates with the experience we need. (3) It’s a good thing that Ron Paul won the “straw poll” of 2012 candidates | Read More »

    The John Edwards Test

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 4th at 09:24 AM  | 

    The Obama campaign and its supporters have been quick to throw around charges of racism when their candidate has been criticized. I propose the following easily-applied thought experiment before evaluating such charges: would Republicans say the same thing about John Edwards? Edwards is not, of course, precisely identical to Obama, but if you were conducting a test for racial bias and needed a white “tester” | Read More »