E-Mail Policy
Apologetically, a new e-mail policy: I try to at least skim each e-mail I get, and until now, I’ve been trying to respond to each, since not responding to an e-mail has always felt rude to me. I’m afraid, though, that I’m getting so many messages that I have to reluctantly stop responding to most of them. I sincerely apologize for that — as I said, it feels rude to me, even with this announcement. Still, if I’m to keep blogging (and to keep actually doing real work, too), I think this is what I have to end up doing. So please forgive me if you send a message and receive no response — and please do keep sending messages, since many of them end up being fodder for future posts. Sorry, and thanks for reading.
leon weinstein says:
FYI -
A fun book about capitalism is out of print. The book is called “Looking for Hugh: The Capitalist Guidebook” . It is an action adventure written for both teenagers and general adult readership. The book in an entertaining and page-turning adventure. In an easy to understand way it explains why capitalism produces results where all other systems failed. The book is an Orwellian-type adventure of two teenagers traveling a group of fictional islands, where on each island they encounter different social and political system. The books talks about right and necessity to bear arms, about harms of affirmative action, illegal immigration and many other burning contemporary issues.
The book already generating hot responses from liberal “intellectuals” who have read the first chapters of the book that were circulating on Internet: “Our California branch of Bigoted Racists is living up to their well deserved reputation,” or “Don’t need no f***in’ republican propaganda from a Bush c**k-sucking weakling like yourself…” (sorry about the language), or “Pull your head out of your blind ass and maybe you might become actually educated as opposed to being an ignorant right wing NUT…” and many similar ones.
If they are becoming THAT angry after reading a fictional story, then the book must worth something.
Please visit http://www.TheCapitalistGuidebook.com to find more information about this book.
For additional information please contact me directly.
Sincerely,
Leon A. Weinstein
Weinstein Art Management
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September 27, 2009, 12:06 pmjulian says:
New site–
The new site resolves when using “http://volokh.com”, but it resolves to the old site when using “http://www.volokh.com”
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September 28, 2009, 4:12 amTodd says:
OK.. Obama is pitching for the Olympics, great, wonderful.. glad to see it.. if he were still the Congressman from Illinois that is...
He was not elected to play games, he was elected to lead this country. Lets say you were one of the soldiers who volunteered to defend our great nation and were sent to Afghanistan by your elected representatives. Now, you are getting shot at, constantly underpressure and watching your buddies get killed or maimed.. Meanwhile, our enemies are building nuclear weapons, and it does not matter if they plan to use them or not, because an attack is imminent from Israel if they do not stop. We are critically in debt to China, our financial system is in turmoil, unemployment is rampant and the President is turning away from our allies and warming up to our enemies. How reassuring do you think it is to the soldiers in the field to see their President ignore their needs, alienate our allies and shrink military defenses? What is his top priority? to go out of his way to try and pull in the Olympic games? Seriously?? Even trying to pass healthcare reform with the seriousness of these ongoing issues is a joke. His priorities seem to be out of whack and his playing games could end up costing the lives of a lot of very good men and women.
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October 1, 2009, 8:58 pmRoss says:
I wish to tell you that your new web site is so much easier to read. The words, letters and
spacing make everything crisp and clear. thanks.
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October 2, 2009, 2:32 pmLawrence Rhodes says:
Unlike Ross, I much prefer the old site design. This may have to do with which platform it is viewed from; the Times font of the old design renders very nicely on Mac OS X while Verdana is rather plain and ugly. But I have recently been forced to use Windows XP for something, and find that all fonts on it are ugly, so Verdana is not so bad, relatively. I think you can choose either rendering in Safari for Windows. If http://www.volokh.com keeps the old style, I’ll use it.
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October 5, 2009, 1:12 amJoe Martin says:
Reference your recent poignant article:
“Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?”
Wish you would have at least footnoted Article 24 and Article 25 of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam.
A copy of the Declaration is here:
http://www.religlaw.org/interdocs/docs/cairohrislam1990.htm
What you’ll find is that the islamist goal is to support “Human Rights” as defined by Sharia law — which prohibits the free speach we cherish and so many other Human Rights as supported by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which islamists are actively working to subvert.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Questions about Sunni Islamic Law (Sharia)?
Get “Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.”
http://www.amazon.com/Reliance-Traveller-Classic-Islamic-Al-Salik/dp/0915957728
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October 5, 2009, 10:52 amAndy says:
I wish there was more discussion on how Sotomayor will react in McDonald v. Chicago I’m interested in seeing how/what she will base her decision on
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October 6, 2009, 1:42 pmTed McClellan says:
The joke is on the Nobel Committee; the million dollar prize must be turned over to the US — public employees can’t accept gifts exceeding couple hundred; Remember Ed Meese’s cuff links??
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October 9, 2009, 3:32 pmmartin kessler says:
A militia is comprised of all makles physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. When called into service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves. A government would be unwise to restrict the right to keep arms unless the govenment was planning to estableis a paramilitary organization and indoctrinate it’s children to serve one superior leader.
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October 13, 2009, 1:50 amWin Pollard says:
Do you really not know who NGO Monitor is? Check them out. They are a propaganda outfit whose only — and I mean only — function is to attack critics of Israeli policy.
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October 23, 2009, 1:57 pmGovindaya says:
I levelled up in no time.
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November 3, 2009, 5:04 pmCarroll B. Merriman says:
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November 8, 2009, 12:36 pmall games says:
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November 10, 2009, 10:35 amAdam says:
Hi!. Thanks a bunch for the info. I’ve been digging around for info, but i think i’m getting lost!. Google lead me here — good for you i suppose! Keep up the great information. I will be coming back in a couple of days to see if there is updated posts.
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November 11, 2009, 10:17 amcitizenw says:
re: http://volokh.com/2009/04/03/still-more-on-the-olc-opinion-re-d-c-voting-rights/
Gerry, back again.
There are MANY ways to accomplish that, but ALL must pass muster with the residents of the fifty states, and NONE depend in any way on the opinions of we DC residents. (If that isn’t close to slavery, I don’t know what IS.
But here’s a suggestion anyway.
Since expatriate Americans are allowed to vote in the State of their last residence, why not create a similar allowance for (expatriate) DC residents? Allow them to “affiliate” with one of the states and vote there. After all, it does say “people “of” the several states”, not people “residing in” the several states. I could have moved from my home state to anywhere else in the WORLD (except Washington, DC) and continued voting for the last thirty-five years. And the people of DC are clearly “of” the several states, as opposed to being the people “of” the Asian steppes, or “of” the African savannah, or “of” the Argentinian pampas, or “of” the (Ant)Arctic tundra.
Look up the definition of the word “of”.
And if you want to alleviate or mitigate an even wider disparity, allow them to affiliate only with the –smaller– states; Wyoming has two Senators for only about half a million people, whereas California has only two Senators for over 25 million, a fifty to one disparity.
That solution, along with a more restrictive limit on the local power of the Congress over DC (for example, make them pass exclusive legislation over DC “in all cases whatsoever” by a super-majority of both houses, if it is for such compelling national interest!), would resolve most if not all of the objections to the present situation.
Power corrupts, and Absolute Power, “in all cases whatsoever”, corrupts absolutely.
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November 12, 2009, 12:04 pmPaul Price says:
Dear Sir,
Several of our Representatives and Senators have been asked about the Constitutional basis for Government mandating that citizens be required to purchase health insurance. To date, the answers have been pretty much everything from “Im no scholar on the Constitution” to
rolled eyes and “are you serious”.
Have you or any of your esteemed associates addressed this issue? If so, could you point me in that direction?
Thank you very much.
Paul
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November 13, 2009, 11:46 amE says:
interesting free speech claim — writing on the wall (of a house)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/189205.html
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Meetings with Mr. Bowden over the last several months have failed to resolve the sign issue,” the town statement said. “And the town continues to receive complaints from residents about the situation.”
Bowden, who says his house was damaged by runoff caused by town road construction, refuses to budge. The slogan is a free speech issue, he says, a stance that has the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.
“They [are] still trying to violate my constitutional rights,” Bowden said Thursday. “I’ll have the young lady from the ACLU explain it to them. I’m not going to do it.”
Cary officials cited Bowden for a zoning violation on July 31, saying the sign violated the town’s strict appearance ordinances. But the town didn’t initiate fines, which start at $100 and escalate to $500 per day, as it tried to mediate the dispute.
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November 13, 2009, 1:20 pm