Archive | October, 2004

A reader of Article III Groupie properly admires one of our cobloggers. But, seriously, can this coblogger hold a candle to this one?

From the New York Jewish Week.

Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on the belief that Cubans are in love with American cars from the 1950s. A number of recent books and movies such as Yank Tanks have left this impression, but the Times offers a different view: “Nothing could be further from the truth. Cubans love new American […]

In Nebraska, the age of consent to engage in sexual activity is 16; however, sexually explicit images of those under the age of 18 count as criminal child pornography. So what happens if a 31-year old man creates a videotape of himself and his 17-year old girlfriend having sex? The sex is legal, but the […]

Here’s a poorly-reasoned article (via How Appealing) that relies on statements by an NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney for criticism of the supposed dearth of black Bush appointees to the federal judiciary. According to the article, 7.5% of all Bush judicial appointees have been black (the list doesn’t include Janice Brown, whose nomination has been […]

Brian Leiter links to an online petition in support of Prof. Joseph Massad of Columbia. Brian states that the charge of misconduct vis a vis a student by Mr. Massad are serious, but do not warrant dismissal. First, let’s be clear that I have no personal knowledge as to whether any accusations made against Prof. […]

Comments filed with the Antitrust Modernization Commission have been posted and can be found here.

The Wall Street Journal notes a remarkable shift in an article today on page A4 (subscription required). In 2000, those with a high-school diploma or less preferred Gore to Bush by 7 percentage points, and those who graduated college preferred Bush to Gore by 5 percentage points. That is in keeping with what had been […]

My former student Patrick Lewis writes: Took four pics of the absentee ballot today down at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. I also have the absentee voter booklet (but not the absentee ballot itself) in my possession. I’m waiting on our tech people to pull the pics off the digital camera . . . […]

Drudge has the scoop.

In the Nation, Christopher Hitchens slightly endorses Bush, but in Slate (scroll down) Hitch endorses Kerry. Is the Slate Kerry endorsement a flip-flop or a typo? The text of the Slate endorsement is ambiguous.

Captain’s Quarters and KerrySpot have interesting commentary on the Al QaQaa story. It appears that even after the New York Times story has been exposed as doubtful, the Times is still not able to use Google or Nexis to read the April 2003 stories to figure out which military units were first on the scene. […]

The Washington Times has an interesting story today on how some Iraqi insurgents hope to affect the Presidential election: Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-educated architect and intellectual, said different types of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S. election. The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists — Ba’ath Party members and […]

Dahlia Lithwick in Slate has an interesting article on why the Justices will likely stay away from any possible election-related litigation; I’m not sure she’s right but she makes a good argument. The one item that puzzled me in the piece, though, is this: Justice Stephen Breyer’s supremely weird confession this weekend at Stanford — […]

John Kerry is probably not a plagiarist but one of his (former?) staffers may be. The New York Sun is reporting that there are multiple plagiarized passages in John Kerry’s writings (tip Betsy’s Page). Most of what politicians write is ghost-written for them and sorting out authorship can be difficult–eg, claims that Ted Sorenson (who […]