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Open Thread
9 March 2026 @ 2:47 pm
Auto-post somehow failed today, so I've manually posted this. Enjoy as usual!
Alleged Threats Against Alleged Groomers / Sex Traffickers of Minors Don't Justify Sealing of Personal Information / Pseudonymity
9 March 2026 @ 2:42 pm
First, the backstory from Courthouse News Service [Monique Merrill] about an earlier decision in the case denying the defendants' motion…
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No Second Amendment "Right to Build Solar-Powered Greenhouses"
9 March 2026 @ 2:06 pm
So Judge Joshua Wolson (E.D. Pa.) held yesterday in Nellom v. Shapiro, unsurprisingly. An excerpt, from the Factual Allegations section:…
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Regime Change in Cuba: 'Just a Matter of Time'
9 March 2026 @ 1:45 pm
Trump and other D.C. interventionists feel like they're on a roll.
March Madness
9 March 2026 @ 1:30 pm
Plus: A seventh American has been killed in the Iran conflict, the U.S. is almost certainly responsible for school strike, how Lindsey Graham helped start the war, and more...
Lawsuit Over Cancellation of April 2024 Pro-Palestine Protest at U Texas Can Go Forward
9 March 2026 @ 12:33 pm
From Heilrayne v. Univ. of Texas at Austin, decided Jan. 27 by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) but just recently…
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Philosophy Prof, Discussion of Adult-Child Sex Bans, and the First Amendment
9 March 2026 @ 12:01 pm
SUNY Fredonia philosophy professor had been barred from campus over podcast questioning illegality and immorality of adult-child sexual contact; a federal court has just allowed his First Amendment claim to go forward.
250 Years Later, The Wealth of Nations Still Has Lessons To Offer the Political Class
9 March 2026 @ 11:00 am
Governments have yet to accept that free societies are also prosperous societies.
Today in Supreme Court History: March 9, 1937
9 March 2026 @ 11:00 am
3/9/1937: President Roosevelt delivers a fireside chat on his Court-packing plan.
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Closing the Door to New Americans
9 March 2026 @ 10:00 am
The federal government slashed the annual cap of refugee intake to the United States by 94 percent last year.