It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some… (View Post)

Congress can legislate on abortion, but that is much harder in terms of legislating to allow abortion than to ban it. This is because, if the federal government legislates to enable access to abortio… (View Post)

That isn't correct. Article 2 of the Constitution provides that the person receiving a majority of electoral college votes "shall" be President. Because this is a state rights point (a… (View Post)

With this talk of "punching up" etc, I'd note that another phrase that annoys me is "don't kick a man when he's down". In my experience, that's the very best t… (View Post)

Cheers, Peter Ustinov. Tremendous anecdote. (View Post)