Too dumb to die: The Supreme Court ruled today that mentally retarded people cannot be executed for murder. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, said that because mentally retarded individuals don't have the mental faculties to be deterred from committing murder by the death penalty -- that the states don't have a valid […]
Krugman again: I know you've come to expect it. His column is here. It's another diatribe about the horrible idea of letting people invest a portion of their social security in private accounts. I won't deny that there are some problems with private accounts, and an infusion of cash would be needed to move younger […]
Is it life? Or is it a video game? That's what I thought when I first saw James Goldsborough's column in today's San Diego Union-Tribune. See, when I went to bed last night, I lived in a form of democracy, a constitutional republic. But, when I woke up this morning I found out that I […]