PROGRESSIVE SCHOLARSHIP: Scholars push for forced abortions on minors with ‘restraint’ if needed in U. Chicago journal.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 27, 2026
DEAR JIMMY KIMMEL: YOU’RE GARBAGE. YOU’RE NOT FUNNY, AND YOU’RE NOT EVEN A GOOD POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST.
Jimmy Kimmel tried to clean up his comments about Markwayne Mullin being a former plumber, but he tried to have it both ways. First he doubled down ignoring Mullin's management experience with his plumbing company "[Trump's] apple polishers are all in a tizzy because I made light… pic.twitter.com/3zqd1AG6r9
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 27, 2026
You do a decent job of retailing class-snobbery for downwardly mobiles, though, which is what most of your audience is actually there for.
A SMALL VICTORY FOR STANDARDS: San Francisco Reinstates 8th-Grade Algebra After ‘Equity’ Experiment Fails.
#WINNING: Senate approves deal to end DHS shutdown without Democratic immigration demands. “The last-ditch deal does not include any of the demands Democrats have placed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — including that agents be barred from wearing masks and operate under tougher warrant requirements to detain illegal migrants. The bill does not provide funding for ICE or Border Patrol, but those subagencies already received billions of dollars under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by President Trump this past July and immigration enforcement has gone on uninterrupted by the shutdown.”
WELL, THEN: Democrats Have Already Killed the Filibuster.
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Florida Democrat Could Be Expelled from Congress.
MUELLER WAS DIRTY AND SO WAS HIS ORGANIZATION: The Mueller Special Counsel’s “Investigation” of Gen. Flynn Was Its Most Egregious Abuse of Prosecutorial Authority. The Obama Admin. Intelligence Community knew Gen. Flynn would expose the duplicity of Crossfire Hurricane — silencing him was paramount and the Mueller SCO obliged.
STEWART BAKER: Investigating FISA abuses in Crossfire Hurricane.
March 26, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.
FLASHBACK: RANDY BARNETT ON LIBERTARIANISM’S FAILURES:
I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.
First, the need for natural law ethics in addition to natural rights; second, the need to distinguish between libertarian ideal theory and second-best libertarianism in a world of governments and competing nations; third, the need for a libertarian theory of citizenship and civil rights; fourth, the need to separate the public-private binary from the government-nongovernment binary; and fifth, the need for a more refined theory of corporate power and corporate rights.
Let me offer a few words about each.
Read the whole thing.
DON SURBER: Ice Deports Crime.
METFORMIN UPDATE: After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Revealed to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain. In a good way.
NUKE THE FILIBUSTER, PASS A BUDGET AND THE SAVE ACT:
I salute them! Doubling down on stupid. Sooner or later, when they show consistency, you have to respect that. https://t.co/gQXLIBHy8h
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 26, 2026
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Ancient DNA Reveals Medieval Secret Hidden Inside a 5,000-Year-Old Spanish Monument.
PLACEBOS ARE YOUR FRIEND: Sharper mind and body achieved in older adults with a fake supplement in just 3 weeks.
THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE: Reality Check: The Latest Attack on Lead Ammunition Isn’t Really About Ammunition at All.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA plans moon base, nuclear spacecraft in multibillion-dollar moon program expansion.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Skeleton of famed musketeer possibly found in Dutch church.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Loyola newspaper apologizes for calling suspected murderer an ‘illegal immigrant.’