Archive | October, 2004

In this March post, I discussed the case of Elyse Crystall, a left-wing feminist English professor at the University of North Carolina under investigation by the federal Department of Education for alleging subjecting one of her students to an illegal “hostile educational environment” for singling him out for criticism as a conservative “white” “male” “Christian” […]

Apparently some airlines don’t take kindly to flight attendants who blog.

CNN reports:   The FBI’s seismic shift from a broad attack on crime to an intense focus on counterterrorism has resulted in tens of thousands fewer investigations into traditional crimes since the 9/11 attacks, according to a new Justice Department study.  The detailed analysis by the department’s inspector general found that cases related to violent fugitives alone […]

Last week I asked the prowar blogosphere to respond to three questions I had about Iraq. Here are the three questions: First, assuming that you were in favor of the invasion of Iraq at the time of the invasion, do you believe today that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea? Why/why not? Second, […]

Segacs’s World I Know reports on Concordia University (Montreal) refusing to let Ehud Barak — a former Israeli prime minister — speak on campus. Here’s an excerpt from the university’s press release: During the summer the Office of the Vice-President Services received an initial request from Hillel to hold a public lecture by former Israeli […]

“A method of styling hair to cover partial baldness using only the hair on a person’s head. The hair styling requires dividing a person’s hair into three sections and carefully folding one section over another.” The patent is right here — but don’t try this, er, “practice” it, at home, lest you infringe. No, I […]

I’m pleased to say that Speech as Conduct: Generally Applicable Laws, Illegal Courses of Conduct, “Situation-Altering Utterances,” and the Uncharted Zones will be published next year in the Cornell Law Review, a journal I’ve always greatly respected.

Today is the First Monday in October, the official statutory beginning of the new Supreme Court Term. As you might expect, the reporters who cover the Supreme Court are offering lots of preview stories to tell us what we can expect in the Term ahead. (For those who don’t follow such things, the Supreme Court […]

Brian Doss has some clever suggestions. And a reader suggests “The Washington Disenfranschised.”

My friend Stewart Baker reports this item, which isn’t news, but was news to me: The prospects for life in the Universe just got sweeter, with the first discovery of a simple sugar molecule in space. The discovery of glycolaldehyde in a giant cloud of gas and dust near the center of our own Milky […]

[Text: “Dear, the old factory is now a member of the “NRA” which means I’ll get better wages and better hours. Later: Under the “NRA” this factory shall advance hours and minimize wages of all employees. Henceforth we shall employ white help only.”] The Defender was the largest and most influential black newspaper of its […]

[[Oct. 3 update: I added pictures from Paul’s post at Wizbang to this early Oct. 2 post.]] I have waited to post on this until things are mostly sorted out, but I expect much more to come out today, when Wizbang (who broke this story) provides significant updates. Several days ago, Associate Professor David Hailey […]

–Watching part of Bush’s interview with Bill O’Reilly (tip to Instapundit), I found Bush’s responses to questions about Rove having prior knowledge of the Swift Boat ads to be odd, to say the least. Of course, Bush can look uncomfortable even when he is saying something that he deeply believes in, but he looked awfully […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in my blogosphere challenge by sending me links to posts on the three questions I raised about the war in Iraq. I received in the neighborhood of 90-100 responses, and hope to post links to all of the responses sometime over the weekend. I also expect to respond myself to […]

It seems that the ACLU’s temporary success mispresenting the nature of Wednesday’s court decision has led to some heat being directed back at the ACLU. Corrections have been run at several papers, and the ACLU’s misleading description has become a bit of a story itself. How does the ACLU respond? With another press release:   ACLU […]