The Fifth Circuit denied an en banc rehearing - triggering some fun dissents from pearl-clutching conservative jurists - and with that Texans secured the right to dildos.

Normally that would raise some red flags, but itвЂ™s probably for the best that Ted and Greg went down this road, because it turned out that the Fifth Circuit ultimately rested its decision striking down the sex toys ban on this very argument that the Texas law unconstitutionally burdened the rights of users to purchase their device(s) of choice. Note that this section begins with an acknowledgment that the appellants hadnвЂ™t even made this argument. 113, 152-53 (1973), it has never suggested that the substantive-due-process doctrine ensures individualsвЂ™ ability to stimulate their genitals in ways that are neither connected to procreation nor associated with any particular lifestyle. This is a much better article and imo the last word on the phenomenon: Feb.Although the Supreme Court has recognized the right of privacy as protecting individualsвЂ™ ability to control whether or not they have children, e.g., Carey, 431 U.S. but actually trumps the crazy one' comes off as so empty. media cant help covering a sideshow and themselves come off as elitist and trumps the 'crazy' one? i can't really put my finger on it but the whole 'hey media and politicians are beholden to corporate interests and trump is actually speaking to people. theyre all corporate puppets who cant speak for themselves 2.

taibbi just spent a whole article detailing why establishment conservatives and elite media havnt been able to do a thing to halt his popularity because: 1. This is a Good Article about the Trump Phenomenon ДЄrticle falls off a cliff as soon as it says 'The problem, of course, is that Trump is crazy.' towards the end. But the fact that lots of voters hated the Clintons, Sean Penn, the Dixie Chicks and whomever else, did not, ever, mean that they believed in the principle of Detroit carmakers being able to costlessly move American jobs overseas by the thousands. For a generation, conservative intellectuals have successfully pointed the finger at big-government-loving, whale-hugging liberals as the culprits behind American decline. Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame. But that wasn't because of the principle itself, but because it was always coupled with the more effective politics of resentment: Big-government liberals are to blame for your problems. If that werenвЂ™t bad enough, the candidate asked photographers not to take his picture while he ate the sandwich. They are, instead, the ramblings of a liberal wanna-be strongman.' What these tweedy Buckleyites at places like the Review don't get is that most people don't give a damn about 'conservative principles.' Yes, millions of people responded to that rhetoric for years. There, the Massachusetts Democrat went to PatвЂ™s Steaks and ordered a cheese steak with Swiss cheese. 'These are not the ideas of a small-government conservative. Where, they ask, is the M-F'ing love? What about those conservative principles we've spent decades telling you flyover-country hicks you're supposed to have? 'Trump has also promised to use tariffs to punish companies,' wrote David McIntosh in the Review's much-publicized, but not-effective-at-all 'Conservatives Against Trump' 22-pundit jihad. 'I'm a free-trader,' he says, 'but you can only be a free-trader when something's fair.' It's stuff like this that has conservative pundits from places like the National Review bent out of shape.

This is a Good Article about the Trump Phenomenon In any case, Trump says he'll call Detroit carmakers into his office and lay down an ultimatum: Either move the jobs back to America, or eat a 35 percent tax on every car imported back into the U.S.

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