Word: skepticism
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...apostasy-which still irks many Republicans-and regardless of lingering Alibis about his intellectual depth, most party leaders nonetheless concede Romney a substantial edge for 1968. "He is indisputably the leading candidate now," said Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and a longtime skeptic about Romney's presidential qualifications...
...fold. First, he questions Holmes's "mixture of over-simplifications concerning the nature of law and truth," and second, his "monumental complacency in regard to the society around him." The second point is mostly a matter of interpretation, but the first deserves exploration. Holmes was a philosophical skeptic and a social Darwinist. To him, there was no such animal as "Truth." To Holmes the philosophical skeptic, "Pleasures are ultimate and in case of difference between on self and another there is nothing to do except in unimportant matters to think ill of him and in important ones to kill...
...because such a criticism relies on the assumption that "good guy" justices will inhabit the Court, I think a better criticism of Holmes would have gone in the other direction: take his philosophical skepticism to its conclusions and show how it conflicts with both social Darwinism and judicial restraint. Social Darwinism, after all, assumes that that which does survive ought to survive, which is heresy to a philosophical skeptic. The jungle or the "market place of ideas" is as arbitrary a source of truth as the Bible or the Constitution. And Social Darwinism also collides with judicial restraint because...
...that Compatibility Research try to arrange marriages. "But we don't find that very interesting," Ginsburg replies. Prospects for financial success this year are so promising (Ginsburg estimates, with probably some exaggeration, an intake of $1.5 million by March) that it no longer is reasonable to be an amused skeptic about Operation Match...
...colleague from Massachusetts, unhappily announced that he had changed his position from "no objection" to one favoring recommittal. Staunch Democratic allies of the Kennedys, notably Joseph Tydings of Maryland and Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, warned that in all conscience they might have to vote no. As one Democratic skeptic put it: "If they vote for this guy, how can they keep the political hacks in their own states off their necks...