Elane photography violated NM law, rules commision

I posted earlier about the Elane Photography case. The New Mexico Human Rights commission issued its opinion today, holding Elane Photography guilty of discrimination. As Eugene Volokh discusses here, the breadth of the decision is astounding and ostensibly covers other businesses of a similar nature. For instance, freelance writers — by the same logic employed by the [...]

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More on Libertarian paternalism

Here’s another post by Cass Sunstein.
Also, I find one of the comments below that post worth repeating in full:
Having effectively evicted us from the label “liberal,” the Left now wants to appropriate the word “libertarian” as well.
I guess we should be flattered that our intellectual real estate is appreciating, but I am concerned that the [...]

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Reverse McCarthyism?

Dean Christopher Edley of Berkeley responds to the John Yoo controversy:
While serving in the Department of Justice, Professor John Yoo wrote memoranda that officials used as the legal basis for policies concerning detention and interrogation techniques in our efforts to combat terrorism. Both the subject and his reasoning are controversial, leading the New York Times [...]

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