Two weeks ago, Indymedia’s servers being seized by the FBI was a big story around the web. The reports were very vague on the facts, but gave the impression that the FBI knocked on Indymedia’s door and grabbed their servers to shut down Indymedia’s service. The story generated a great deal of attention: a google […]
Archive | October, 2004
Slippery Slopes:
Patri Friedman (Catallarchy) has thoughts on a talk I gave yesterday on slippery slopes.
Leiter on Dworkin:
Brian Leiter has posted a short and entertaining essay criticizing the jurisprudential contributions of Ronald Dworkin. If you have any interest in legal theory, give it a read.
Civil unions and the Federal Marriage Amendment:
Michael Totten, guest-blogging at InstaPundit writes: BUSH ON CIVIL UNIONS: President Bush said today that he favors civil unions for gays, or at least that he doesn’t agree with the Republican Party platform that opposes them. This is news to me. How can he be in favor of civil unions and also back the Federal […]
Different Take on Missing Explosives:
ABC’s The Note describes an NBC News report that offfers a different perspective on the recent stories about 380 tons of high explosives missing in Iraq: There is a strong and not always unwarranted suspicion on the right that the press likes to end-load the pre-election news cycle with lots of hard-hitting, negative stories … […]
User’s Guide to the Stored Communications Act:
The final version of my new article on the Stored Communications act is now online: A User’s Guide to the Stored Communications Act, and a Legislator’s Guide to Amending It. The Stored Communications Act is the federal law that governs access to stored Internet communications and other Internet records held by ISPs. Although the SCA […]
Republicans and Political Ignorance, Continued:
Readers have asked about my evidence for the proposition that conservatives are generally better informed about politics than are liberals. I was likely recalling the following chart, posted on the VC several months ago: Political Knowledge by Strength of Party Identification 2000 National Election Study Self-Described Party Alignment / Average Political Knowledge Score (Average number […]
The Length of Law Review Articles:
Over at Crooked Timber, Micah Schwartzman offers a response to Richard Posner’s critique of law reviews. This section on the length of law review articles caught my eye: Posner faults students for the ridiculous length of legal articles. But most articles are submitted at lengths well over 25,000 and frequently over 40,000 words. . . […]
Missed Opportunity to Kill Zarqawi:
The story of the 380 tons of explosives missing from a known base in Iraq is obviously big (and depressing), but that shouldn’t entirely obscure another important story. A few months ago, co-conspirator Jacob Levy noted the lack of response to an NBC Nightly News report asserting that the Pentagon had located Zarqawi’s camp in […]
John Ashcroft Pushing for Civil Liberties:
Yes, it’s true. Part two of the New York Times investigative report on military tribunals is out today, and it is very much worth reading. Among other things, it touches on areas of disagreement within the Bush Administration on what to do with Guantanamo and whether to set up military tribunals: [S]ome officials at the […]
Daughter of “Madam Butterfly”:
John Fund writes in the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary about the new confusing-ballot controversy. Apparently absentee ballots in Cuhayoga County, Ohio (which includes Cleveland) “have arrows designed to be used with voting machines, where the arrows line up correctly with the candidate’s name. But when used by an absentee, the ballot instructions tell absentee […]
Libertarians for Bush:
Our conspirator-in-chief is not the only one. John Hospers, the first Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1972, endorses President Bush’s reelection. The letter is posted, with approving commentary, by Robert J. Bidinotto here. Meanwhile, Jesse Walker at Reason’s Hit and Run reports former Republican Congressman Bob Barr will vote Libertarian.
Endnotes before Index in Word:
Many thanks to readers Arthur Einhorn and John Broughton, who have answered my question about how to put the endnotes before the index in Word. I’ve tested their suggestion, and it works great — it basically involves (1) configuring endnotes so that they go at the end of each section and then (2) using the […]
What Sir William Blackstone might have said about law professors:
Blackstone was the leading late 18th century commentator on English law, and highly influential in the colonies, and this is what he had to say about why the English common law was better than the Continental civil law: The English law is less embarrassed with inconsistent resolutions and doubtful questions, than any other known system […]
Political Wolves:
The truth comes out about that “wolves” ad.