Glenn Reynolds

Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynoldsis Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is best known for his weblog, Instapundit, a widely read American political weblog. He has published numerous books, columns, and academic articles...
add banks comfort extra few sector smooth zone
In the end, a few extra pledges can add to the comfort zone for the banks in a sector that is having anything but smooth sailing.
rest
In other words, it's like the rest of the news,
default hiring imply painted picture specialist
Hiring a restructuring specialist does not imply filing, but when you do it and then default on the coupon, the picture is getting painted by the numbers.
optimistic expectations people
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
interesting clock chimes
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
white people diversity
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.
running jobs opportunity
The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.
home college government
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.
government people historical
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
country class ideas
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
rights citizens littles
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
government together doe
Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.
party mean majors
[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.
giving feelings comforting
That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.