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Second Thoughts About the Second Amendment?

Seth Cooper — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:00:43 +0000

Original(ist) considerations about federal power and the Bill of Rights.

Could gun rights advocates really be wrong about the unconstitutionality of the District of Columbia's handgun ban? Interestingly, one conservative professor thinks so. Amidst the buzz over the U.S. Supreme Court's pending decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, Dr. Kevin R.C. Gutzman insists [...]

Honor Thy Contracts

Seth Cooper — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:28 +0000

The Eighth Circuit’s decision in Americans United for the Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries, Inc. makes for a nice, early Christmas present.

No one should think that the separation of church and state somehow prevents government and private contractors from bargaining and performing in “good faith.” But a federal trial court’s [...]

The Darwinian Right: Not Left But Still Wrong

Seth Cooper — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:00:42 +0000

John West's latest book is a tightly written response to scholars and pundits who purport to ground social, economic and political conservatism in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory. A review of Darwin's Conservatives: The Misguided Quest.

Darwin's Conservatives: The Misguided Quest by John G. West published by Discovery Institute (October 16, 2006) Ppbk., 160 pgs. ISBN: 0979014107

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Darwinian Conservatism: An Evolutionary Dead End

Seth Cooper — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:05:45 +0000

In his recent book, Carson Holloway demonstrates the inability of neo-Darwinian theory to undergird the moral framework that is essential to a liberal democracy's survival. A review of The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion and the Future of Democracy.

The Right Darwin: Evolution, Religion and the Future of Democracy by Carson Holloway Spence Publishing Company (January 30, 2006) Hdbk., 209 [...]

Good Faith Contracting, Bad Faith Judging

Seth Cooper — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:05:31 +0000

Judge Robert W. Pratt not only shut down the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, he ordered the non-profit organization to pay back all state funds it had collected for services it provided on behalf of the State of Iowa.

Last month a federal trial judge barred the State of Iowa’s expenditure of funds for contracts with a private organization [...]