Rather than just complaining (as I’ve noted, justifiably) about its rhetoric, Timothy Burke is thinking carefully about the substantive point of the historians’ letter to the media about Michelle Malkin’s “In Defense of Internment.” He attributes Malkin’s success in drawing uncritical attention from the major media to two things: (a) her saying something contrarian about […]
Archive | September, 2004
Councilman Amicus Brief:
In news relating to the recent First Circuit wiretapping decision in United States v. Councilman (previous posts here and here), a coalition of privacy groups including the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the American Library Association have just filed an amicus brief in favor of […]
WHOM TO BELIEVE? MICHELLE MALKIN, OR THE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER?
Michelle Malkin’s revisionist telling of the story of the Japanese American internment turns crucially on one supposed military fact: Franklin Roosevelt and his top military brass feared a Japanese assault on the West Coast. This, she claims, rather than prejudice, panic, or economic or political pressure, explained their decision to uproot American citizens of Japanese […]
More on Hastert’s smears of Soros:
Jack Shafer (Slate‘s Pressbox) points to this statement from Hastert on an Aug. 23 radio show: Brian Lehrer: What do you think of the Swift Boat veterans ads, and John Kerry’s calls for the president to denounce them? Dennis Hastert: Well, you find out that if you look into the record, I was against the […]
VOX DAY ON MILITARY NECESSITY:
According to Vox Day, any military historian worth his or her salt could tell you that the top military brass back in early 1942 knew that a full-blown Japanese assault on the U.S. mainland was inconceivable–and that their reliance on that rationale for evicting Japanese Americans from the West Coast was therefore bogus. I’m no […]
NINTH CIRCUIT PROBABLE CAUSE DECISION:
The Ninth Circuit issued an interesting ruling on whether the existence of records indicating that a suspect joined a child pornography website creates probable cause to search the suspect’s home for illegal child pornography. I offer an analysis of the case for members of my computer crime update list here. My basic take: the court […]
Cathy Young on sex differences:
On a break from packing, I read Cathy Young’s Reason Online review of Stephen E. Rhoads’ Taking Sex Differences Seriously. I haven’t read Rhoads’ book, but I’ve generally found Young to be a sensible, thoughtful commentator on these subjects. Her review is definitely worth reading.
The War on Terrorism in the Courts:
Over at Begging to Differ, Venkat lists the anti-terrorism cases that DOJ has brought that somehow have ended up falling flat– via acquittal, dismissal of charges, and the like. If you broaden the category to terrorism cases both charged and uncharged, you might add the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, who it seems will soon […]
I’LL HAVE THE COMMERCE CLAUSE, WITH A SIDE OF FRIES:
A student points me to this funny story at the Onion.
Good and inexpensive restaurants right around Stanford:
Since Leslie and I will be around Stanford for three and a half months, we wanted to find some good and inexpensive restaurants that we could regularly go to and pick up from. We’d like to have a range from the hole in the wall Chinese/Thai/etc. where dinner can be $10/person or less (not counting […]
RHETORIC AND REALITY.
Thanks, as always, to Eugene for the invitation to guest-blog here again. It’s always a pleasure. Yesterday Eugene critiqued a letter I signed in which a group of historians and researchers (including me) complained of the decision made by many TV and radio shows to present, without opposition, Michelle Malkin’s revisionist account of the Japanese […]
Eric Muller guest-blogging again:
I’m glad to say that my fellow lawprof Eric Muller (IsThatLegal?) will be guest-blogging again today and tomorrow, while my family and I are packing up and driving up to Stanford, where I’ll be visiting for the Fall Semester.
More on Soros, Hastert, and drugs:
I mentioned this controversy in an earlier post; for where things stand now, I quote Jack Shafer (Slate‘s Pressbox; see the column for link): Soros denies the charge that he is in the pay of drug cartels in this Aug. 31 letter he sent to Speaker Hastert, demanding an apology. . . . Hastert states […]
I HOPE THE REPUBLICANS AREN’T THE YANKEES:
If the Republicans are the Yankees, then what does 22-0 mean? Then again, I guess its only what happens in the late fall that matters…
How to make substantive criticism look like guarding professional turf:
Eric Muller (IsThatLegal?) posts an open letter to the media from various historians: We represent the Historians’ Committee for Fairness, an organization of scholars and professional researchers. Michelle Malkin’s appearance on numerous television and radio shows and her comments during these appearances regarding her book IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT represent a blatant violation of professional […]