Archive | November, 2004

Thanks to Hit & Run for the pointer.

Yevgeny Vilensky (Yale Free Press) takes Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) to task for these voter fraud insinuations of Olbermann’s: [T]he majority of the media has yet to touch[, among other things, the story of] . . . huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2-1, places where the optical […]

With a Rehnquist retirement looking increasingly likely, Court watchers are actively speculating about who the President might appoint. SCOTUSBLog’s Tom Goldstein predicts the President could nominate Judge John Roberts of the D.C. Circuit for the post. I believe Judge Roberts would be an excellent choice. Roberts is eminently qualified, and legally “conservative” in the best […]

has just come out with a very interesting book: The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, published by the NYU Press. I just started reading it, and it’s quite good. You can download the Table of Contents and Chapter 1 from this site.

After the election, one of my colleagues placed a bumper sticker on his office door reading “Lobotomies for Republicans.” I always suspected that if wealth resdistribution didn’t work, the Left would seek other ways to level the playing field. [I’d put that on my office door, but I don’t have tenure yet.]

I’ve long liked Stu Rees’s legal cartoons, which I’ve posted here occasionally; he now offers a new web service that lets you personalize the cartoons — inserting a person’s name or legal specialty into the caption — and then print them on T-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and ordinary prints. Check it out at http://custom.stus.com.

Slate Press Box — subtitled “media criticisms” — reports: To hear [Joe] Lenski of Edison Media talk about it, the whole election brouhaha of 2004 can be blamed on the people who leaked the exit poll information and the outlets (Slate, drudgereport.com, wonkette.com, dailykos.com, mydd.com, et al.) that tossed the raw data out for consumption. […]

RealClearPolitics.com, the best of the poll sites this year, has rated the performance of the pollsters–both in the national race and at the state level. The state results differ slightly from the results I reported recently from Polipundit. RealClearPolitics reports in part: At the national level the answer to the question is pretty straightforward. Ed […]

I have nothing against Americans wanting to move to Canada following the election; there’s a long tradition of people moving — even within the democratic world — to find a place where they feel more in sync with local values. I’m glad that some Canadians move here because they prefer our more enterpreneurial spirit; I […]

I’ve run into a bunch of acquaintances and VC readers lately, many of whom have asked me, remembering previous posts on the subject, whether my wife and I have bought a house yet. The answer is no. We made one offer in May on a four-bedroom house a mile from the Ballston metro with a […]

Thomas Friedman woke up after the election wondering what country he was living in: what troubled me yesterday was my feeling that this election was tipped because of an outpouring of support for George Bush by people who don’t just favor different policies than I do – they favor a whole different kind of America. […]

Another defeat in the courts for the Bush Administration’s legal strategy in the war on terror. A brief skim suggests that this is a pretty broad ruling, although unfortunately I don’t think I’ll have time to blog more on the details. An AP story on the decision is available here. Thanks to Howard for the […]

So here’s an idea: what if the Republicans and Democrats were to make the following trade: (a) repeal (or modification) of Amendment 22 (which provides that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”) for (b) repeal (or modification of) the provision of Article II of the Constitution (which […]

I have a big favor I’d like to ask law review editors, on my behalf and on behalf of future law review staffers: Could you allow me to put on the Web a copy of some recent write-on competition packet of yours, and one or two papers that got the top score (or near to […]

Jack Balkin offers his thoughts here.