Archive | August, 2004

Prof. Bainbridge has the scoop on this interesting case (which turns out to be more about smoking than alcohol as such).

I’m just delighted that Eric Muller’s visit here coincided with the release of Michelle Malkin’s book. (It was indeed a coincidence; I hadn’t thought about that when I invited him — I was going to a conference and didn’t think I was going to be able to blog as much as I normally do, and […]

Yes, I’m against political vandalism; yes, I’m against anti-Semitism; yes, I can understand how such incidents can trigger connections to past horrors. But somehow, if this story is correct, I don’t think this candidate is quite ready for public life: Someone defaced about 50 campaign posters belonging to David Heller in San Francisco’s Richmond District. […]

A big NYT article about my hometown, and one of my favorite places, Portsmouth, NH. And, unlike most mentions of Portsmouth in the national press, it’s not about the presidential primary, and so it gets to write about Portsmouth at its summertime best rather than in the bleak midwinter. It’s a good article that hits […]

Grist magazine’s Amanda Griscom called Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s book attacking the Bush Administration’s environmental record “the green community’s Fahrenheit 9/11.” Griscom meant this as a complement — but Moore’s critics might beg to differ. Based on some recent posts, it seems the contributors to The Commons Blog — a relatively new group blog focusing […]

The New York Times ran this interesting story about efforts to genetically engineer trees to address various environmental problems. In laboratories around the country, researchers are using detailed knowledge of tree genes and recombinant DNA technology to alter the genetic workings of forest trees, hoping to tweak their reproductive cycles, growth rate and chemical makeup, […]

So it looks like Barack Obama (disclaimer I’ve disclaimed before: my state Senator as well as a University of Chicago faculty colleague) will have a Republican opponent after all; Alan Keyes is reportedly going to run. An out-of-stater who denounced Hillary Clinton’s carpetbag run as an assault on federalism, a very, very religiously conservative black […]

My time here at the Volokh Conspiracy is short. Eugene invited me to guest blog yesterday and today; at midnight I turn into a pumpkin and must return to my home at IsThatLegal. I always appreciate and enjoy the chance to guest-blog over here. I know I’ve been pretty, uh, prolific this time around, and […]

has figured out a plan to “throw [the Republicans] off their game” at the upcoming GOP convention in New York City:   I propose the following: I want to organize a cadre of 20 to 50 of us. I want to dress us in suits and other plain pedestrian attire and salt us among the sidewalk […]

Robinson ends where I began, with some comments about Michelle’s method: Now that I have covered Malkin’s central arguments as fallacious, I would like to step back and look at the work as a whole. I do appreciate the author’s willingness to take an unorthodox position, and it is good to put the wartime treatment […]

wherein Professor Robinson further disassembles Michelle’s assertion of a supposed military necessity to evict and detain all Japanese Americans (but not all German or Italian Americans): The author’s case for military necessity–she claims there was a “West Coast under siege”–is fatally flawed, as it reposes on her dramatic account of the shelling by Japanese submarines […]

Professor Greg Robinson, author of “By Order of the President,” has more to say about Michelle Malkin’s book “In Defense of Internment”: Michelle Malkin engages in overkill. Her stated purpose is to prove that the removal and confinement of Japanese American aliens, and particularly of citizens, was based on justifiable fears of espionage and sabotage, […]

This just in: Baying at the moon is not a crime in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

As I noted yesterday, in her new book “In Defense of Internment,” Michelle Malkin undertakes to “defend … the evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast (the so-called “Japanese American internment”).” (p.xii) (“Ethnic Japanese” here means the Nisei–American citizens born in this country to Japanese immigrant parents who had been forbidden by […]

Despite my outrage at Letourneau (see below), I’m not sure that the judge’s order that she not contact the boy she had sex with — now a 21-year-old man, Vili Fualaau — is valid. Courts generally do have broad powers to restrict the associational rights (and also free speech rights) of people who are released […]