(Randy Barnett) In today’s Washington Post: In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’s spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John [...]
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We (we NR) have a cruiser (a participant in our cruises) who was a clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. He was also an usher at FDR's first inauguration (or "inaugural," as people say incorrectly now). He says that, when the n... Read Post
"Whatever you think of Theodore Roosevelt, he was not Lenin. Woodrow Wilson was not Stalin. The philosophical foundations of progressivism may be wrong. The policies that progressivism generates may be counterproductive. Its view of... Read Post
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling... Read Post