NCAA March Madness Bloggers Challenge
The brackets are finally set as we head into another year of March Madness. Last year The Virginian Federalist was your Bracketology Central, but this year we have decided to take it a step further. We have teamed up with NLS to Co-Sponsor the third annual NCAA March Madness Bloggers Challenge.
Here is all you need to do. Go here, sign up for a Yahoo account or just log in, pick your brackets, and sit back and cheer on your team. The entries must be complete by tipoff on Thursday.
Let’s see how March Madness ’08 is shaping up:
This year looks as good as ever. With Duke seeded a #2 instead of a #1 this year, they might actually have a chance. Georgetown is another #2 that you just can’t count out. Watch out for Baylor this year, and there is no telling what George Mason will do. While Virginia teams did not fare so well this Selection Sunday, it should still be a very exciting tournament.
Here are the brackets (click to enlarge):
3 comments:
Question - I am a first time reader of this blog and I note that you have conservative blogs listed under "Federalist" and liberal blogs listed under "Anti-Federalist."
It seems to me that it should be the other way around. Anti-federalists like Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe were suspicious of installing an all-powerful federal government and supported states' rights. Wouldn't conservatives call themselves suspicious of the federal government and prefer states to legislate before the federal government on most issues? I would certainly think so. I know I would.
Please advise.
Sincerely,
James Monroe
Thanks for checking out The Virginian Federalist. The system is not perfect and probably deserves an entire post to explain, but here is the short.
We have five levels. Obviously, we are The Virginian Federalist, if we were The Virginian Anti-Federalist then that would make sense. I very good argument could be made for such a blog. There are Federalists (our favorite conservative blogs), Whigs (fairly conservative blogs), Democratic-Republicans (is more a play on words as it is blogs that have left and right contributors), Anti-Federalists (reasonable liberals), and Tories (are out in left field somewhere).
The Anti-Federalist label is more to show that they are opposite of the Federalists (us) but will engage in a dialogue. Of course I am open to more suggestions, but I could not very well call The Virginian Federalist and anti-federalist blog.
I hope that you will continue to read our blog.
There are a number of points of departure between the Federalist and Anti-Federalists of old. Federalists in general favored a stronger central government, but both would have supported fully the 10th amendment rights of states.
On a personal note my point of departure as a Federalist is defense of the Federal constitution through an independent judiciary capable of overturning acts which are unconstitutional. Warren Burger in examining the precedents of Marbury vs. Madison noted that the Supreme Court's decision in Marbury aroused Jefferson's latent hostility toward the judiciary.
One of those precedents was Van Horne's Lessee v. Dorrance. Justice Patterson's opinion: "[A] Constitution is the sun of the political system, around which all Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bodies must revolve. Whatever may be the case in other countries, et in this there can be no doubt, that every act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution is absolutely void."
From this we can place Jefferson squarely in the anti-Federalist camp and Hamilton and Madison in the Federalist camp. My philosophical congruency with Hamilton and Madison is what defines for me being a Federalist.
Cominius
Senior Editor
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