Archive | July, 2004

Ann Coulter writes: As Mickey Kaus has pointed out, every time Kerry starts campaigning, his poll numbers plummet … But he’s got a lot of surrogates campaigning for him. There’s Michael Moore, who has said he hopes more Americans will die in Iraq. His movie, “Fahrenheit 7/11” as we call it, apparently supports the [New […]

I blogged in March: No hint of litigation about this yet, but it makes for an interesting hypothetical question (assuming Slate didn’t get a copyright clearance) — check out this Slate “Juicy Bits: We read the book so you don’t have to” column, and compare it to the situation in Harper & Row v. Nation […]

I’ve gotten lots of e-mail about the Zarqawi story (see posts here and here) that has asked, more or less, why I would ever believe anything from the mainstream media with its obvious anti-Bush bias. I’ve responded, over and over again, that I know the rules reporters for major mainstream American news sources work under, […]

Laugh-out loud funny video. Thanks to Clayton Cramer for the pointer; he links to some others in the same series.

Rick Hasen, a top election law expert, discusses the subject.

A Montana newspaper reports: University of Montana professor Rob Natelson, accusing the Law School of discriminating against him for years because of his conservative political views, has asked the state Board of Regents to overturn a decision denying him the opportunity to teach constitutional law. . . . Natelson urged the regents to admonish the […]

Here are Glenn Reynolds’ views, though not squarely focused on the age of consent.

The Curmudgeonly Clerk responds (see his post for various links): As regular readers know, I have done a fair amount of blogging about statutory rape laws over the course of the last year or so, and I have come to advocate what is essentially a descriptive approach to the law of statutory rape. That is, […]

Or are you a political history SuperJunkie? Test yourself by guessing the election year from the electoral college map. Cool! Provided by Tom McMahon.

Several people, including Juan and Mike Rappaport (The Right Coast), suggested that I needn’t worry about the litigation as military tactic by 50,000 detainees scenario, because Congress could still statutorily strip these detainees of the rights to petition for habeas. This would not be a suspension of the constitutional right to habeas corpus (which isn’t […]

Jonah is right, other than his parting shot at DC. Adam Graha-Silverman is right. John Podhoretz is just being silly. Went to see the movie yesterday afternoon with someone known to you all. Loved it. It was pretty close to (though not quite) pitch-perfect as a movie. It included lots of easter eggs for the […]

here. I have not checked this myself, so I can’t vouch directly for its accuracy; but I know Kopel’s work well, and think highly of it (and of him).

So I’ve been thinking — purely for academic reasons, I hasten to stress! — about statutory rape laws. There’s broad agreement that sex with people who are too young is wrong, and should be illegal, because children aren’t mature enough to consent to sex. But there’s vast disagreement about what the proper cutoff age will […]

From the N.Y. Times: [Nader]said that while representatives of an antitax group encouraged Republicans to attend a meeting last Saturday in Portland, Ore., to help him collect 1,000 signatures, he said Democrats were “infiltrating” the same meeting merely to block other supporters from getting in. Mr. Nader said Democrats crowded into a meeting hall, kept […]

Alan Greenspan receives a tremendous amount of adulation. I may be wrong but (1) I think that Greenspan, along with other central bankers, caused the great stock market bubble of the late 1990s, by opening the money supply spigots to fend off problems stemming from the collapse of Long Term Capital Management and the Russian […]