Gillette-Torvik Blog

So we have been running this series on people who will never be Presiden t.  For the most part, we have been spot on.  But this post will n...

I strongly believe that electing judges is a very bad idea.  See  e.g., here and here .  Over at Slate, Robert J. Smith has an article abou...

M oderately reliable sources on the Internet, i.e. Wikipedia , say that on this date in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme C...

It's usually wrong to brag and it is usually wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others.  But is it wrong to point out that we ca...

My maternal great-grandfather was Samuel Visnow.  Samuel was born in Quebec in 1847. I do not know exactly how they ended up there  but by 1...

Everyone knows that ignorance of the law is no excuse. A natural corollary of this, one would think, would be a right to know what the law i...

According to Wikipedia, F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Rich Boy " contains the following: "Let me tell you about ...

I'm going to keep the Border Battle going, just a little bit, with a story. When I moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota, one of the biggest...

In my recent post about how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will never be elected president , I mentioned several ways that Minnesota outper...

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