MGB:_Garrett Epps is the forefost constitutional scholar and historian of this age, maybe the best since Madison. If he says this is not a constitutional case, you have to wonder why it was granted ceriori, and that is scary. He tells us why. Still, I have hopes that Chief Roberts will vote for the intent of the law and not make Court packing by the next Democratic President a necessity to counteract Alito’s partisanship. The necessary fact in this case, proven by this case, is that Mr. Janus can speak all he desires. If his brothers and sisters in the Union agree with him, his voice will be amplified. If not, he can still speak on his own and I am sure some reactionary will provide enough funding for him to be heard. Unless AFSCME is allowed to silence him, his free speech rights are undistrubed.
Erroneous Autonomy was a good series. I wish I had been able to attend and participate. We must always remember that without Solidarity, Subsidiarity it just a surrender to power. Any time we can put ideologies that would forget this under a microscope is worthy, including when it is social liberty rather than economically liberty being discussed. My comments on these events are at:
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2014/06/rcs-vs-libertarianism-part-i-national.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2014/06/rcs-vs-libertarianism-part-ii-national.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2015/06/erroneous-autonomy-conversation-on 9.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2015/06/erroneous-autonomy-conversation-on.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-catholic-vs-libertarian-debate.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2016/12/erroneous-autonomy-third-edition.html
http://heymsw.blogspot.com/2017/01/lack-of-just-wages-benefits-threat-to.html
Every President should have one person he trusts who will stop him from doing stupid things. This President doesn’t have that person and even goes to the extent of hiring someone who Tweets like he does to further confuse things.
In the world of wisdom there is ethics, which is derived from truth and therefore absolute and aesthetics, which is beauty and emotion and individual with no right answers, which is why everyone can be a critic and all be right. Ocassionally, Truth can invoke wonder as well and beauty can involke truth. I am glad the President likes his portrait. If I am ever in his shoes, I would prefer the standard standing portrait in the Oval. As for the First Lady’s portrait, I see the arms but not the face, which is too bad because her face outshines that of her portrait. As for the voice rehersal, music is about feeling. Even if you aren’t feeling the performance in the second, you had better pretend you are really quickly, because singing is a form of acting and the emotions to be evoked are not accidental.
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