Archive | October, 2004

A reader had asked me whether fisking was fair use, so I thought I’d put up a link to my old post on this.

Various people, including John Perry Barlow, Drew Carey, Nat Hentoff, P.J. O’Rourke, Glenn Reynolds, Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith, various Reasoners, and yours truly, answer.

I see that The Onion has a special page that collects its election-related stories from the past few months. My favorite still remains “Kerry Makes Whistle-Stop Tour from Deck of Yacht.”

specifically as to the Guardian (U.K.) campaign of persuading Ohio voters to vote for Bush, out of sheer revulsion at British strangers’ attempts to patronize them into voting for Kerry.

Eric Muller (IsThatLegal?) writes: IsThatLegal? Why, No. It’s Not. A reader informs me that this blog has been blocked by the Seminole(Fla.) County Public Library. It’s hard to know what got me on the banned blogs list. Perhaps the librarian is a big fan of Duran Duran. Or of Siegfried and Roy. Or maybe it’s […]

Duke University welcomes to its campus a non-academic conference sponsored and attended by supporters of Palestinian terrorism, offering to foot the bills for security. Questionable judgment, but I’d have to know more about Duke’s policies on such conferences to reach a conclusion. If Duke would be similarly hospitable to a conference of fundamentalist Christians and […]

(1) There’s an interesting interview with Neal Stephenson on Slashdot. (2) I recently finished reading his The System of the World and much liked it. The three books — Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World — are not as good as Cryptonomicon (at least on first reading). But I liked them a […]

In all the extraordinary hubbub surrounding the well-deserved defeat — nay, the humiliation — of the Yankees last night in the Bronx, I’m surprised that there hasn’t been much talk about why we didn’t see Kerry at any of the games. He’s the junior senator from Massachusetts; he’s got a bona fide reason to snap […]

We had 35,000 unique visits yesterday according to eXTREMe Tracking, and 45,000 according to SiteMeter. Many thanks to InstaPundit for the link that brought the great majority (and of course for the Supreme Court nomination . . .).

David Bernstein asks in passing about politics and anti-semitism in the US in the 1930s. I just analyzed some 1938 Gallup data that are among the more than 100 databases that I have on my laptop. A spring 1938 Gallup Poll asked: “Do you think the persecution of Jews in Europe has been their own […]

Columbia University has an endowment of approximately $4 billion (that’s billion). Jewish and Israeli students in the Middle Eastern Studies Department report being harassed and harangued by their professors. Columbia, implicitly acknowledging problems with the department, and having already taken money from an evil Middle Eastern dictatorship for a chair named after the late Egyptian […]

Dahlia Lithwick has a new article up at Slate, Supremely Scary: The Sudden Outbreak of Supreme Court Horror Stories, much of which pokes fun at op-ed writers who argue that the outcome of the Presidential election will have a profound impact on the future of the Supreme Court. Lithwick makes the point that while Bush […]

it’s probably best not to sell it on eBay where everyone can see it. (Hat tip: Drudge)

Now you can read the briefs for Respondents in Ashcroft v. Raich. I am very excited about our brief and am looking forward to the oral argument in the Supreme Court on November 29th. We are also supported by some very thoughtful and powerfully argued amicus briefs. The attorneys in the Solicitor General’s Office now […]

Some people replied to the post below on section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment by asking whether the nation can have “Enemies” for section 3 purposes without a declaration of war. Well, the Civil War itself, to which section 3 clearly applies, was not a declared war. That suggests that “Enemies” include actual enemies with […]