Archive | October, 2004

Bill O’Reilly, whom I generally find unwatchable, is in trouble and is fighting back. Matt Drudge has the details on an extortion lawsuit filed by Bill O’Reilly against Andrea Mackris, a FOX associate producer, and her lawyers, the Morelli law firm. According to the O’Reilly filing, the producer alleged sexual harassment by O’Reilly and may […]

between Prof. John Choon Yoo (Berkeley) and Prof. George Harris (McGeorge, counsel to John Walker Lindh): Eliot Fladen, who helped put it together, has a quasi-transcript.

A number of commentators have been making the link between John Kerry and Neville Chamberlain, such as Ed Koch and the guys at Powerline. Long before John Kerry emerged from the pack of Democratic candidates, I was struck by the parallels to England in the 1930s. Although Bush is DEFINITELY no Churchill, the response of […]

Andrew Sullivan gives “Derbyshire Award” nominations to examples of what he sees as overheated and bigoted or otherwise unfair rhetoric. I think his nominations are often quite insightful, but here’s one that I can’t agree with: DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “[A]bortion is in our day what slavery was in Lincoln’s. To vote for John Kerry in […]

Find them here. Expensive, but funny; this is my favorite. Thanks to AI for the pointer.

Corporate law maven Stephen Bainbridge writes: Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc., which owns 60-odd TV stations in many major US media markets, has ordered its stations to preempt ordinary programming in order to air “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” a film about Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam record that many regard as being anti-Kerry. Some have […]

Please expect even slower response to e-mail (and more likelihood of no response at all) than usual. Very sorry.

Hundreds of thousands of African American farm laborers were forced off their land by the New Deal’s two Agricultural Adjustment Acts. As economic historian Gavin Wright points out in his book Old South, New South, the New Dealers wanted to force the South to shift from an agricultural and low-wage economy to a modern, industrial, […]

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Roper v. Simmons, a case that considers whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for crimes committed at the age of 16 or 17. One of the interesting questions potentially implicated by the case is whether people who are 16 and 17 tend to make less […]

Quebec’s Human Rights Commission has ordered a man to pay a $1,000 fine because he referred to another man as a “fifi,” the French equivalent of “fag.” Worse yet, the comment wasn’t made to the complainant (which would at least raise red flags about an implicit threat or true harassment of the individual), but to […]

My friend and William and Mary law professor Alan Meese is now blogging about the “Kerry Doctrine” and related matters. Check it out.

A reader asks, so we answer: It rhymes with “pollock” (in English, of course; it’s different in Russian).

up right now over at Vice Squad. Check ’em out.

InstaPundit posts about this, together with an e-mail from a reader speculating why the server company may have just given FBI the whole servers: I work in a huge company with a lot of rack-mounted servers. We have no “documented process” that an Operator (or even Technician) could provide the contents of a server. We […]

is guest-blogging over at Crescat on self-help and the law. It’s very interesting stuff; the first post is here, and the second is here.