July 5, 2012 - AM Edition

If you were expecting a post yesterday, my apologies! I spent Independence Day with friends and family, and was far too busy with those things to spend any time combing my feed reader. Happy Belated Independence Day! With that said, here is the morning edition!

That all Men are Born Free and Equal? - TIC (Randolph)

Taxation v. Regulation: A Revolutionary Question - Liberty Law Blog (Samuelson)

On Being Divided by a Common Language: The Semantics of Scapegoating - Liberty Law Blog (Conway)

The Declaration of Independence Annotated - Volokh (Barnett)

The Libyan Afterparty Continues As Timbuktu Dies - Via Meadia

Nanny Journalists Can’t Help Themselves - Pileus (Cleveland)

A Final Fourth of July Story - Via Meadia

Guest column: Recovering the Declaration, and its meaning to our nation - Gainsville Times (Busick & Cheek)

Immigration: He Who Is Without Sin - Public Discourse (Londregan)

On Imagination and Will - TIC (Muggeridge)

Originalism and the Legal Culture - Liberty Law Blog (Rappaport)

Obama's subsidies: Private profit, public risk - Washington Examiner (Carney)

Chicago’s school war - NY Post (Will)

Americana Res Publica: No Revolution - TIC (Birzer)

Obama strategy isn’t all that’s not working - Boston Herald (Thomasson)

July 3, 2012 - PM Edition

Here's How Much The Obamacare Penalty Tax Will Cost You... - Business Insider (Blodget)

Iran: Not Cuddly, And Getting The Bomb Won’t Improve It - Via Meadia

The real national security threat: America's debt  - L.A. Times (Lieberthal and O'Hanlon)

Baptists and Bootleggers – French Edition (French Required to Have Breathalyzers in Cars) - Pileus (Cleveland)

Fake - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)

Right wing smear machine to blame for Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee problem (again) - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)

The Declaration of Independence, Fixed - Via Meadia

Judicial Federalism and the Tragedy of Gonzales v. Raich - TOB (Ramsey)

Beware journalists turning conservatives into a circular firing squad - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)


Upstate New York is the heart of Operation Counterweight - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)

July 3, 2012 - AM Edition

Do Liberals Depart from the Party Line? - Liberty Law Blog (Rappaport)

Gladiators - TIC (Willson)

State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman (3): Why the Case was brought - Liberty Law Blog (Conway)

A Specialist in the American South: Eugene Genovese - TIC (Busick)

Rethinking What Universities Teach - First Principles (Stetson)

What Did the Court “Hold” Regarding the Commerce Clause and Medicaid? - FedSoc Blog (Shubow)

The Bible as the Christian Faith's 'Constitution' - Maverick Philosopher

Is America’s Religious Freedom Under Attack? - Via Meadia

Court jolts snoozing tea party - Detroit News (Finley)

Roberts’ health care switch: Gasoline on the fire - Politico (Haberkorn & Samuelsohn)

Detroit Has Run Out of Other People's Money - Reason.com (Dalmia)

July 2, 2012 - PM Edition

“A lawyer’s rigor with a statesman’s breadth of view”- Liberty Law Blog (Weiner)

July 2, 2012 - AM Edition

Casey at Twenty: Lessons from a Judicial Disaster - Public Discourse (Saunders)

The End of the American Lawyer’s Guilded Age - Liberty Law Blog (Chen)

Legal Education at the Intersection of Two Guilds - Liberty Law Blog (Tamanaha - response to Chen)

The Self-Sustaining Guild: American Lawyers Will Still Own the Future - Liberty Law Blog (Olson - response to Chen)

Michael Boskin: Obama and 'The Wealth of Nations' - WSJ (Boskin)

Adam Smith and “Adam Smith” - Pileus (Otteson - resp. to Boskin)

High Court Gives Obama and Romney Some Explaining to Do - Bloomberg (Hunt)

Obama's Already Losing the Messaging War on Health Care -- Again - National Journal (Hirsh)

'The rich' are people, too - LVRJ (Frederick)

Unmoored Americans? - CLR Forum (Smith)

District Court Issues Permanent Injunction in Bronx Household of Faith Case - MoJ (DeGirolami)

The Health Care Case and the Challenges of Judicial Federalism - Originalism Blog (Ramsey)

Obamacare: The Final Battle - NRO (Roy)

Supreme Beings - American Spectator (Antle)

July 1, 2012 - Sunday Edition

New Poll Shows that Majority Disapproves of the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decision - Volokh (Somin)

The Supreme Court Decision, Freedom of Contract, and Federalism - BHL (Teson)

Breaking from CBS: Roberts Switched His Vote From Invalidating the Mandate to Upholding It - Volokh (Barnett)

Contemptible - TWS (Hemingway)

Barack Obama’s Ironically Prescient Speech Opposing John Roberts’ Nomination to the Supreme Court - Volokh (Somin)

Sunday Morning Quotation – The Dissenters on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Pileus (Cleveland)

The Claims Against Gold Still Aren’t Sticking - TIC (Domitrovic)

A Disaster of Monumental Proportions - Liberty Law Blog (Rappaport)

Dangerous Naivete: Obama's Policies Allow Radicals to Rise in the Middle East - RCP (Kelly)

Religious Freedom Wins In New York - Via Meadia

Student Loan Program Pumps Legal Ed Bubble: For Now - Via Meadia

He started a joke - LI (Jacobson)

The Price of Health Care - NYT (Douthat)

The Folly of Obamacare - WaPo (Samuelson)

Read ARATOR for excellent perspective on Southern thought, history, and culture. - TIC (Haworth)

Is Meritocracy A Sham? - Via Meadianstitutional Contortions - NRO (Steyn)

June 30, 2012 - Saturday Edition

US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again - Via Meadia

Gov. Jindal: Louisiana says no to Obamacare - Legal Insurrection (Jacoutot)

The Supreme Court's Health Care Ruling: Preserving the Individual as Sovereign, Rather Than Subject of Government  - MoJ (Sisk)

Oakeshott and Conservativism - TIC (Wilson)

Roberts’ Rules for Self-Government - Liberty Law Blog (Weiner)

Circumcision Wars in Germany and Cyberspace - Via Meadia

3 Essential Takeaways From the Obamacare Decision: Gov't is Still Unlimited, Romney's Still Lame, & Health Costs Still Set to Rise. - Reason Blog (Gillespie)

John Roberts Is a Super-Taxer - RCP (Kudlow)

The Obamacare Ruling – A Libertarian Call to Rise - Bleeding Heart Libertarians (Vallier)