In her AP story, Lisa Leff focuses on the trial record and describes it as a “knockout”; but even legal eagles who favor gay marriage, aren’t so sure.  Check out Eugene Volokh’s comments vindicating Cooper’s decision that with a judge that biased and a trial that really wasn’t necessary, scrambling for more witnesses would have […]

Over at 365gay.com Prof. John Culhane has published a piece “Why Civil Unions Tie Maggie Gallagher in Knots.” He doesn’t seem to get what I think about civil unions.  So let me help him untie those knots. 1. For me, the gay marriage debate is primarily a debate about marriage.  That’s the issue that motivated […]

Even an anti Prop-8 legal pundit, Ann Woolner,  agrees with us: Reinhardt should recuse!

The Concord Monitor reports on the election of a new Speaker of the New Hampshire House, Bill O’Brien, “principled conservative”

Jonathan Last, over at the Weekly Standard, writes about the new baby implosion: the birth dearth has already hit Japan, Singapore and is about to hit China. What happens to a society which basically gives up on having children, preferring other alternatives?  Consider the case of Singapore, which successfully campaigned to reduce fertility—then realized it […]

A friend was watching the live stream of the Restoring Honor rally, and snapped a pic of me with the “black-robe brigade” of mostly pastors. I have to tell you, I don’t usually anticipate enjoying events like this.  I come alive at the thought of 10 profs around a table discussing the latest social science […]