Archive | November, 2004

Some of us rarely link Debka.com, an Israeli site run by former Time Magazine reporters, despite its record of important scoops, because it also publishes some farfetched and ridiculous stories. Its strongest reporting is on Israeli politics, followed by Palestinian infighting. Here it seems pretty reliable and extremely insightful. Once it moves out of that […]

In David Brooks’ latest editorial in the New York Times, he rightly dismisses the conventional wisdom about the election, noting that evangelical turnout this time was about the same percentage of the vote as last time (tip Instapundit). He also notes: It’s ridiculous to say, as some liberals have this week, that we are perpetually […]

I posted the maps that Ralph Luker and David Beito had suggested looked like mirror images–1896 and 2004. Two correspondents, Ash Valentine and William Quale, have pointed me to the 1916 map, with Bush playing the role of Woodrow Wilson. Here is the 1916 map from PresidentElect.org: It is kind of sobering to see George […]

Ralph Luker suggested that the 2004 election looked much like the 1896 election, with the Republican and Democratic states switched. What makes George Bush like William Jennings Bryan? David Beito has these maps: 1896 (from David Beito): 2004 (from David Beito): A comment to Beito’s post: [A]lthough the geographic divide remains the same, the parties […]

ChillingEffects.org reproduces a complaint letter from the owner of PenisEnlargement.com to google, apparently asking google to remove links to a competing site that allegedly illegally copied some of the sender’s copyrighted content. My heart bleeds for this poor victim of copyright infringement.

Politics professor Paul Freedman argues that gay marriage and similar issues didn’t sway voters much (contrary to my claims here), and that terrorism did (which is consistent to my claims here). Not sure whether he’s right, but it seemed worth passing along.

As best I can tell from a cursory online search, Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) are tied for being the four Hispanic Senator in U.S. history. Octaviano Larrazolo (1928-29), Dennis Chavez (1935-62), and Joseph Montoya (1964-77), all from New Mexico (the first a Republican and the other two Democrats), are numbers one, two, […]

My friend and fellow lawprof Mike Rappaport (The Right Coast) suggests that Judge Michael McConnell, a leading constitutional scholar who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since January 2003, would make a great Supreme Court Justice (in particular, Chief Justice, when the spot opens up). I agree entirely, and […]

My long-time colleague Eugene has invited me to guest-blog for a few days about my soon-to-be-published but already-leaked-to-the-media-by-my-critics article about affirmative action (you can download a copy here). I’m delighted to particpate, especially if it leads to some lively discussion and feedback. The article is long, even by the bloated standards of legal academia, so […]

I will be participating in a program next Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute speaking on the wine cases in the Supreme Court. Brannon Denning from Cumberland Law School will also be on the panel; Hew Pate of DOJ will moderate. Information and registration material is here. My panel will be followe by one on […]

I’m delighted to report that my colleague Rick Sander will be guest-blogging over the next several days about his recent article on the effect of race-based affirmative action on black law students and lawyers. He will begin either this afternoon or Monday. Rick has a Ph.D. in Economics as well as a J.D., and has […]

The Hoover Institution just published a slim engaging paperback Varieties of Conservatism in America. In it you will find essays on “Classical Conservatism” by Mark Henrie and Joseph Bottum, “Neoconservatism” by Jacob Heilbrunn and Tod Lindgren, and “Libertarianism” by Richard Epstein and me. Although I do not consider libertarianism to be a species of modern […]

Ordinarily I would rise to the bait provided by Professor Bainbridge in his post Those Annoying Libertarians. But I have learned that blogging requires not only the time it takes to compose a post. It also involves the time it takes to read email responses, responses by other bloggers, and then to reply. Because I […]

I realize that the Slate title “Why Americans Hate Democrats — A Dialogue” was chosen to be provocative, to perhaps be an ironic commentary on the post-9/11 “Why Do They Hate Us?” that some on the Left asked, and likely to be in some measure deliberate hyperbole. But I wonder if it might at least […]

Orin says listening to Charles Fried makes him feel like a 2L. As I had him for Torts, it makes me feel like a 1L.