Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

The New York Times, Washington Post, and all the others have lifted the news blackout on John Edwards. It’s worth noting that Edwards has the nerve to suggest that he was being “99% honest” when he lied about his affair. Politico has Edwards’s public statement: STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS August 8, 2008 Chapel Hill, […]

John McCain and the GOP have received some questionable donations from oil executives: Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman. Despite what appears to be a middle-class […]

Stanley Kurtz has a long profile on Barack Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate: “Barack Obama’s Lost Years: The senator’s tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal.” Kurtz’s primary sources are the Hyde Park Herald and the Chicago Defender. Over the last few months, I have […]

Sitemeter appears to be fixed. Blogs should now be working in Internet Explorer. [UPDATE: Well, it’s no longer preventing the loading of blogs, but getting Sitemeter stats doesn’t seem to be working when I click on the Sitemeter icon at the bottom of our page or of Althouse’s.] I received the following email in response […]

Some of you might recall my post about the umpire analogy not being as simple as it seems, which Senator Cornyn read to Justice Roberts and asked him about during his confirmation hearings. I wrote: Roberts’ comparison of a judge to a baseball umpire reminds me of an old story about three different versions of […]

I’m having a strange software problem tonight. When I tried to open several blogs, including Volokh, Instapundit, and Althouse, I got an error message that Internet Explorer was unable to load the page. When I tried loading the same pages from caches after Google searches, most of these wouldn’t load either. Strangely, I was able […]

The Wall Street Journal has a story on Wal-Mart’s arguing to its managers and supervisors that a Democratic win might lead to a loss of rights to resist unions: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they’ll likely change […]

This post updates my post yesterday, reporting that the University of Chicago Law Faculty never voted a tenure offer to Barack Obama. I have now further nailed down the story. I have now spoken or corresponded with 7 members of the University of Chicago law faculty, including several of the most powerful members of the […]

[UPDATE, 3:40pm Thursday: I have now spoken or corresponded with 7 members of the University of Chicago law faculty, including several of the most powerful members of the faculty in the 1998-2003 period. For each year in that period, I believe that I have spoken to at least one from the following group of people […]

The New York Times has a good article on Barack Obama’s time teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. But Mr. Obama’s years at the law school are also another chapter — see United States Senate, c. 2006 — in which he seemed as intently focused on his own political rise as on the […]

One of the country’s leading pork-barrel politicians, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), has been indicted on corruption charges, CNBC reported at 12:50pm. Interestingly, [initially] CNBC did not mention what party he was from[, though in updates a couple of minutes later they did mention that he was a Republican.] UPDATE: More here. The Republican primary is […]

Yesterday the Gallup Tracking Poll showed Obama ahead by 9 points (49-40). Earlier today (Monday) that dropped to Obama ahead by 8 points (48-40). Both were of registered voters. Now Gallup/USA Today released a new poll of LIKELY voters, showing a 4 point lead for McCain, his first lead in any major poll since early […]

Barack Obama got a big boost this week in the Gallup Poll, jumping to a 9% lead in a poll of registered voters (49-40). In the Rasmussen Poll of likely voters, the difference is a smaller, but still substantial 5% (49-44). MONDAY NOON UPDATE: Rasmussen’s Tracking Poll released Monday morning now shows only a 3% […]

In the Wall Street Journal editorial on the new housing bill is this ominous paragraph: Likewise, the bill’s $300 billion to refinance and insure distressed loans through the Federal Housing Administration will supposedly cost just a few billion dollars. That assumes few homeowners and lenders will sign up for the program because lenders will have […]

John McCain on Patriotism in Time Magazine (tip to Adler): Patriotism means more than holding your hand over your heart during the national anthem. It means more than walking into a voting booth every two or four years and pulling a lever. Patriotism is a love and a duty, a love of country expressed in […]