By: MikeWas (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 06:37 PM  | 

This is the end. The wall has fallen. The sky is soon to follow. The world, as we know it, is about to end. The United States of America, once proud, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. What illness, you ask? Metastasized speech, unbound by the prior restraint of government officials. How the expansion of the First Amendment triggered liberal panic You and I | Read More »

By: MikeWas (Diary)  |  February 15th at 05:42 PM  | 

Dispatched tonight to the organization: Dear American Solutions: You care about doing things that work – solutions that are effective. I am writing to tell you that one of the solutions YOU have chosen to manage your organization has failed you badly, and tarnishes your name in so doing. As a personal preference, I never, ever give money to people who call me on the | Read More »

By: MikeWas (Diary)  |  January 20th at 09:43 PM  | 

Yesterday, dissent was cool.  Dissent was popular. Dissent was patriotic.  Why?  Because those dissenting were unified by their opposition to President George W. Bush. Dissenters had their usual outlets: the gatherings of unwashed protesters; the bumper stickers ushering in the “End of an Error”; their columns in the New York Times.  But they also had new ways to band together and rise up against their | Read More »

By: MikeWas (Diary)  |  September 5th at 02:45 PM  | 

Over on the Volokh Conspiracy, Todd Zywicki feels sorry for poor old Joe Biden: