…below, both of which I estimate 4th quarter GDP impacts. I have high confidence in my GDP estimate for trade in goods, since the release includes inflation adjusted figures, but much…

…bad things and attract legitimate criticism for it. The First Amendment protects the press that reports that legitimate criticism and the politicians and public who express it. The First Amendment…

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

…doesn’t directly identify the First Amendment as the source of the right to participate in electing our political leaders, elsewhere in McCutcheon the First Amendment is expressly credited as guaranteeing…

RJS, Focus on Fracking, The Latest US Oil Supply and Disposition Data from the EIA US oil data from the US Energy Information Administration for the week ending March 4th indicated…

Frederick Douglass’s oration on the 4th of July (abridged) The middle portion of Douglass’s famous speech, delivered in 1852 to white abolitionists in Rochester, NY, where Douglass lived at the…

…issue in Shelby County–the 14th Amendment–a five-section amendment, the two relevant ones which read: Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction…

…First Amendment purposes these newspapers would have no First Amendment protection. Except maybe to exercise their religions. Or their brains and reading skills. The First Amendment’s press clause– “or of…

…his state had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the amendment, and the last one necessary to make the amendment the law…