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September 21, 2008: The Bailout Is Socialism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Bailout is Socialism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 19, 2008: Who Lost Ukraine?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Who Lost Ukraine?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 17, 2008: Pulpit Freedom Sunday, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Pulpit Freedom Sunday“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 12, 2008: Governor Palin And Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Governor Palin and Abraham Lincoln“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 9, 2008: Jeffrey Stout: The Folly Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Jeffrey Stout: The Folly of Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 7, 2008: Victory In Iraq, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Victory in Iraq“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

September 3, 2008: Politicized Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Politicized Religion“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

August 5, 2008: Cal Thomas Calls Obama “No Christian”, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Cal Thomas Calls Obama “No Christian”“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 30, 2008: Is Leah Daughtry A Phony?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Is Leah Daughtry a Phony?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 24, 2008: Christians Captured By Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Christians Captured by Capitalism “ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Taking Distribution Seriously, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

It is common for legal theorists and policy analysts to think and communicate mainly in maximizing terms. What is less common is for them to notice that each time we speak explicitly of socially maximizing one thing, we speak implicitly of distributing another thing and equalizing yet another thing. We also, moreover, effectively define ourselves and our fellow citizens by reference to that which we equalize; for it is in virtue of the latter that our social welfare formulations treat us as “counting” for purposes of socially aggregating and maximizing.

To attend systematically to the inter-translatability of maximization language on …

July 6, 2008: For The Establishment Of Religion: Where Are We Now?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “For the Establishment of Religion: Where Are We Now?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 3, 2008: Having It Both Ways On Faith-Based Providers, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Having it Both Ways on Faith-Based Providers“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 28, 2008: The Kennedy Court On Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Kennedy Court on Religion“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 26, 2008: Something Incoherent About Barack Obama, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Something Incoherent About Barack Obama“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Presidential Debates And Deliberative Democracy, Charles W. Collier

UF Law Faculty Publications

Consider democracy in America through the lens of the presidential debates. It is not a pretty picture. From a high point in the nineteenth century (for example, the lengthy Lincoln-Douglas Senate campaign debates of 1858) a declining trajectory can be traced to the present day, with a marked acceleration in the Age of Television. To our polity's discredit, the presidential debate has long since ceased to be a dialogue that might shed light on the candidates' true powers of deliberation. The key to reversing this long decline, I believe, lies in an unlikely place: in the structural features of the …

June 14, 2008: Senator Obama's Prayer Group, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Senator Obama's Prayer Group“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Agenda: Shifting Baselines And New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, And The Transformation Of The American West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

The Center’s 29th annual conference will focus on the changes in the West resulting from rapid population growth, development, disrupted historical weather patterns and the effects of those changes on land, water, and energy resources. Speakers and panelists will address the adaptability of the legal and political institutions and how the transformation of the West may foreshadow fundamental changes to these institutions.

The agenda includes panel discussions that will address:

• Water for the 21^st Century —the big questions in Western water and rethinking Western water law.
• The Future of Energy —practical and sophisticated solutions to overcome the energy …

The Politics Of Competition: Review Of Clifford Winston's Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research And Government Performance And Mark K. Landy, Martin A. Levin & Martin Shapiro, Eds., Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics Of Regulatory Reform, Russell P. Hanser

Federal Communications Law Journal

Two recent books focus attention on the role of regulation in the modem economy and the reasons why efforts at deregulation succeed or fail. Clifford Winston's Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance reviews empirical studies of regulation and its alternatives, arguing that economic regulation has quite often done more harm than good. In Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform, editors Mark K. Landy, Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro collect essays addressing the political dangers faced by those pursuing market liberalization, both before and (especially) after reform is enacted. Read together, these books …

May 21, 2008: For The Establishment Of Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “For the Establishment of Religion “ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 13, 2008: The Future Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Future of Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 8, 2008: Church-State Talk To Pittsburgh Aclu, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Church-State Talk to Pittsburgh ACLU“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Exploring The Impact Of The Marriage Amendments: Can Public Employers Offer Domestic Partner Benefits To Their Gay And Lesbian Employees?, Tiffany C. Graham

Working Paper Series

The article focuses on an issue that is shaping up to be the new front in the same-sex marriage wars: whether applying the terms of the more broadly-constructed amendments to public employers will bar them from offering domestic partner benefits to their gay and lesbian employees. The first part of the article offers an overview of domestic partner benefits plans and discusses the manner in which they are currently being threatened by the more broadly-constructed marriage amendments. The second part takes a close look at the litigation in National Pride at Work v. Michigan. This case represents the first time …

Sport And Politics, Christine Bell

Human Rights & Human Welfare

I found the reflection interesting, but unsurprising. Protestors use the Olympic spotlight (or should we say torch?) to shine on China’s flaws, and China tries to re-direct or extinguish its beams.

Is The Ban On Participation In Political Campaigns By Charities Essential To Their Vitality And Democracy? A Reply To Professor Tobin, Johnny Rex Buckles

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dear President Bush: Leaving A Legacy On The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

April 22, 2008: The Power To Change The World, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Power to Change the World

April 16, 2008: Global Warming And Carbon Taxes, Bruce Ledewitz

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Global Warming and Carbon Taxes

April 14, 2008: Senator Barack Obama's San Francisco Comments, Bruce Ledewitz

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Senator Barack Obama's San Francisco Comments

April 2, 2008: Death And Resurrection, Bruce Ledewitz

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Death and Resurrection