Month: September 2019

Voter Fraud for Dummies

When you hear a conservative blubbering about voter ID or dead people and illegal immigrants voting you know they’re blowing smoke, right? I mean, it’s a conservative. In the real world where truth matters several studies and investigations have concluded that voter fraud at the polls is “vanishingly rare”. But how rare is “vanishingly”, exactly? […]

Now, about That Well Regulated Militia…

Let’s get this straight from the get-go. Poking around in the origins of the Second Amendment may be great fun but it’s moot. While entertaining, perhaps even illuminating, trying to decipher what James Madison said in this or that Federalist Paper, or what Anti-Federalist George Mason objected to, is as relevant as an evangelical claiming […]