Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 21, 2025
ICYMI: “RULE OF LAW:”
A number of judges have seemingly adopted a constitutional meta-principle: what a past President did, President Trump may not undo https://t.co/UlEWsVJxag
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 18, 2025
The trick he’s playing here is to pretend that the left hasn’t already violated these norms and set these precedents
The left is well past the Rubicon but is gaslighting the right for even approaching it https://t.co/BalT782mxY
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 19, 2025
I mean, wouldn’t it at least be a bit embarrassing to have those “principles” turn on and off every four years?
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 19, 2025
The problem is that our system has a crisis of legitimacy.
ex-President Applesauce illegally and deliberately imported somewhere between 10mm and 20mm illegal aliens into the USA and illegally provided them with tax dollars you and I earned on the sweat of our brows.
All of…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 19, 2025
April 20, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Learning to live with AI: Observations from a not-really-early adopter.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
FIRST, DO NO HARM: CT Scans Projected to Result in 100,000 New Cancers in The US. “A team in the US and the UK now predicts that low levels of ionizing radiation from CT scans could theoretically account for 5 percent of all new cancer diagnoses in the US. CT scans conducted in 2023 could be responsible for an estimated 103,000 future cases of cancer.”
THE U.S.S. ROBERT HEINLEIN: A friend writes:
The U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein Campaign!
We want the new Secretary of the Navy – John Phelan — to name a future DDG-51 Flight III
destroyer for Robert A. Heinlein.************************
It is the prerogative of the Secretary of the Navy to name Navy vessels. Navy policy is to name destroyers for deceased members of the Navy.We want the new Secretary of the Navy – John Phelan — to name a future DDG-51 Flight III destroyer for Robert A. Heinlein.
This would happen if lots of people write asking him to name a future Arleigh
Burke-class destroyer for Heinlein.Phelan’s address is:
The Honorable John Phelan
Secretary of the Navy
Room 4E686
Defense Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301More information may be found at the Campaign website.
Good idea. Endorsed.
HAPPY EASTER:
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 20, 2025
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Less Beans, More Flavor: The Astonishing Physics Trick Transforming Coffee. But shouldn’t it be “fewer beans?”
FLASHBACK: Trump and the Lower Courts.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Concealed Carry Flashlight Skills Part Two.
BUT WERE THEY FROM TEXAS? Red, pink or white, all roses were once yellow says genomic analysis.
JOSH HAMMER: End US Taxpayer Support for the Higher Education Gravy Train.
For decades, American institutions of higher education have benefited from extraordinary taxpayer largesse. Federal government grants and other forms of direct taxpayer subsidizations of universities are legion. The federal government itself also has a near-monopoly on the market for economically ruinous student loans — the very loans that are themselves disproportionately responsible for abetting the modern four-year college’s misbegotten status as a necessary rite of passage to achieve the American dream. Capital gains of major university endowments are also taxed at the miniscule rate of 1.4% — a fraction of the taxation rate to which the endowments would be subject were they operating as any other type of business or investment fund.
This favorable governmental treatment of higher education is the backend “quo.” But policymakers predicated that “quo,” long ago, on the corresponding “quid”: American universities, in educating young Americans and instilling in them a love of their families, congregations, nation and God Almighty, conduce to the common good and therefore deserve direct public support.
The basic problem with this argument, in the year 2025, is that — quite simply — it is indescribably and laughably out of touch with reality.
Indeed.
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH: NASA’s oldest astronaut returning to Earth after ISS mission.
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: UMass Boston student, 19, charged in firebombing Tesla dealership.
THE JUDICIARY GETS TO MAKE LAW ACCORDING TO WHIM. THE PRESIDENT MUST JUST MEEKLY GO ALONG WHEN IT DOES. Justice Alito Dissents: “Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.” Justice Alito also questions whether the Court even had jurisdiction to act.
Acting as if the Presidency is a co-equal branch with its own powers, responsibilities, and immunities is abandonment of the “rule of law” because shut up.
WAR IS OVER: President Trump Ends the War on Coal. It was always a war on Appalachia, but I’d still prefer nice, clean nuke plants.
WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS, CHUCK SCHUMER?
Satan Declares Victory After Death Of Jesus pic.twitter.com/f9bWjVMPoV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 18, 2025
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: LeBron James Endorsed Kamala Harris. Then She Paid His Company $50K.
BUT THEY ALL PRETENDED HE WAS COMPETENT UNTIL THEY COULDN’T ANYMORE: “Joe Biden drops ice cream and calls Ukraine ‘Iraq’ on secret Harvard visit. A talk by the former president at the university in Donald Trump’s crosshairs was ‘marked by gaffes,’ a student newspaper said.”