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Veterans Day seemed like an especially apt day to publish this Working Paper, for which comments are gratefully solicited. Summary: This Article analyzes the changes in orthodox Christian attitudes towards defensive violence. While the article begins in the 19th century and ends in the 21st, most of the Article is about the 20th century. The […]

Everyone seemed to enjoy the last Presidential Selector Quiz that I linked, so here’s another one from Glassbooth.org that a reader emailed to me. The good news is that this time my results actually matched with who I actually support and there are no fictional candidates. The first page is a bit confusing, where they […]

Glenn Reynolds examines the question here.

I had never seen this Saturday Night Live sketch before–a revolutionary approach to dealing with the problem of household debt and credit cards, “Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford.”

A: “What? You expected the majority of the complaints [about the Super Bowl Janet Jackson ‘wardrobe malfunction’] to come from 12 year olds? Seriously?” B: “No. I expected most of them to have seen a nipple before. Most had and therefore didn’t think it was a big deal.” My thought: The great majority had, but […]

MedienKritik reports on a poll of 15-17 year old students in Berlin: * “The DDR (GDR – East Germany) was not a dictatorship — the people just had to conform like anywhere else.” 24.6% of all students agreed with this statement …. 54.1% of all students rejected the statement …. The remainder (21.3% total …) […]

I agree with Orin that there is much to comment in Rob Loblaw’s post, but I disagree with the bottom line. If Higazy sought to have his allegations kept secret, I would agree that keeping such information under seal would not be particularly sinister or problematic. Yet that does not appear to be what happened […]

and our allies’, too. War so rarely comes to our own shores — even counting the 9/11 attacks — that it’s easy for us not to fully grasp how much we owe them.

Legal Times has this very interesting story, via Howard.

Over at Decision of the Day, “Robert Loblaw” offers some thoughts on the Higazy case. I tend to agree with Loblaw, at least based on what we know so far.

Japan consumes the lion’s share of Bluefin tuna, but it has plenty of company in its love of this flavorful fish. The growing popularity of sushi, and the use of sushi-grade tuna in other dishes, is putting tremendous pressure on wild stocks of the prized fish. Japan — after years of overfishing a species that […]

From the Washington Post: Researchers at Ohio State University garnered little attention in February when they found that youngsters who lose their virginity earlier than their peers are more likely to become juvenile delinquents. So obvious and well established was the contribution of early sex to later delinquency that the idea was already part of […]

Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” is simply one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s timeless. A Floyd song even non-Floyd fans can love. It only ranked #316 in Rolling Stone‘s list of greatest songs (which is probably reason #423 why such lists are a waste of time), but it’s worth posting as […]

The finale of “The Next Iron Chef” pits Cleveland culinary star Michael Symon against New Orleans’ John Besh. I’m pulling for Symon, of course. Here’s a profile of him from today’s Plain Dealer. UPDATE: **SPOILER ALERT** Congratulations to Michael Symon, the new Iron Chef. Allez Cuisine! CPD coverage is here, and here’s Symon’s new blog, […]

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals (DC’s highest Court) has issued its opinion in Franco v. National Capital Revitalization Corp., an important decision on the status of “pretextual takings” claims in the wake of Kelo v. City of New London (hat tip: PropertyProf Blog). The DC Court of Appeals ruled that a property owner […]