Howard Bashman (How Appealing) notes, apropos a Solomon Amendment case, that “In the Third Circuit, however, rehearing en banc is not available if a majority of the judges in regular active service is recused from hearing a case. A notice enclosed with the copy of yesterday’s Third Circuit ruling that the court sent to me […]
Archive | November, 2004
Merriam-Webster names “blog” as Word of the Year:
Here is the story.
The Folly of the International Court–Israel as Exemplar:
Details here. Donor nations, including the U.S. [a reader points out that the official U.S. rationale is that it won’t fund projects in the West Bank if the Palestinian Authority objects], are denying funds to Israel to build roads for Palestinians in the West Bank on the ground that the ICJ has declared Israel’s fence […]
Power Corrupts…:
A friend sent me a link, which I can’t find right now, to a story about Israeli soldiers forcing an Arab man at a West Bank checkpoint to play his violin. Given the history of terrorists hiding bombs in ambulances and other seemingly innocent locations, it’s not surprising that the soldiers wanted to check on […]
The Solomon Amendment and Catholic Legal Theory:
An interesting debate on the latter subject is ongoing at the Mirror of Justice blog.
Is Al-Qaeda a Paper Tiger?:
Kevin Drum collects some stories suggesting the answer may be “yes.” I don’t know what to make of these stories myself, but they seem worth passing on.
Another Victim of Arafat
My recent media column in the Rocky Mountain News examined the press’s moral bankruptcy in its coverage of the death of the mass-murdering terrorist Yassir Arafat. A reader sent his own memories of one of Arafat’s many crimes against humanity: When I was living in Israel from 1977-78 Yasir Arafat sent a group of terrorists […]
Anti-terrorism, Pro-freedom County Music
What if The Weekly Standard were turned into country music songs? It would probably sound a lot like the music of Eric Free and the Freedom Band. The band sings catchy country numbers like “Saddam Insane” (“Saddam Insane, twisted brain, gotta say goodbye to his evil reign”), “There’s No God in Old Bin Laden” (“they […]
Faculty Clubs and Churches:
Bill Stuntz, one of the country’s leading scholars of criminal law, has an interesting essay over at TechCentralStation on the similarities between law school faculties and churches. An excerpt: The past few months have seen a lot of talk about red and blue America, mostly by people on one side of the partisan divide who […]
Poll on Roe v. Wade:
From an AP story yesterday: [An AP] poll found that 59 percent [of respondents] say Bush should choose a nominee who would uphold the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. . . . 31 percent, said they want a nominee who would overturn the decision . . . . Sounds pretty striking (and […]
Florida pro-Bush Democrats:
Remember those allegations early this month (feels like ages ago, doesn’t it?) that there was something fishy in some Florida counties’ being reported as voting heavily pro-Bush when voter registration was heavily Democrat? It seemed to me that this was actually fishy only to those who hadn’t heard of conservative Southern Democrats, but people definitely […]
Pacers to Face Criminal Charges
According to this report, both unruly fans and several players for the Indiana Pacers will face criminal charges for their conduct in the November 19 basketbrawl. The fan who threw a chair may be in the most serious trouble. Prosecutors say they are likely to file elony assault charges against him. Insofar as any indictments […]
Likudnik, One More Time:
Brad Delong writes: I use the word “Likudnik” routinely to refer to those in American who support Likud, and who believe that the national security of the United States is advanced by feeding Likud’s annexationist fantasies. I’m not an anti-semite. And I don’t like being called one: The Volokh Conspiracy – : …the phrase “Likudnik” […]
The Lying Study Appears to be Misdesigned.–
If the news accounts are correct, the new study distinguishing the brain scans of liars from truth-tellers has a serious design flaw that goes beyond the small sample size. Indeed, it is such an obvious flaw that I wonder whether the researchers really made it, or whether instead the reporters got the story wrong: Faro […]
More on French Antiterrorism Laws:
For those interested in more background on why French antiterrorism laws are so harsh, this paper, The French Experience of Counter-Terrorism, by Brookings fellow Jeremy Shapiro and Benedicte Suzan of the Fondation Mediterraneenne d’Etudes Strategiques, seems to offer a pretty good starting point.