Archive | November, 2004

This is ugly.

The full transcript is now online of the Bin Laden tape. Excerpts: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results. Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of […]

Today’s Legal Times has an article by Tony Mauro on a recently discovered in-chambers election law opinion from 1912, Marks v. Davis. The text of the opinion, co-signed by Justices Pitney and Van Devanter, is available here. The Mauro article suggests that the newly-discovered opinion may be an important precedent; the article is titled “The […]

My friend Glen Whitman blogs against it, and links to a post on another blog that supports it.

Snopes verifies the claim that “The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936”: “If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that occupies the White House continues to hold it; if the Redskins lose that last home game, […]

The Canadian web journal PoliticsWatch.com has a new article noting some of the many similarities between the claims in Osama bin Laden’s latest movie and the claims in Michael Moore’s latest movie. The reporter asked me for an observation, and I said, “It’s a poor reflection on both of them. Michael Moore presents numerous anti-American […]

I doubt there are many, but surely there must be some — and if you’re one of them, I just wanted to again pitch Brian Morris, a candidate for the Montana Supreme Court. Brian clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist when I was clerking, and I was very impressed him: He’s very smart and thoughtful, and […]

I’m very pleased to say that Dave Kopel, of the Independence Institute (not the Independent Institute), has joined us as a coblogger. Dave is a leading scholar on firearms regulation, both on the constitutional law issues and on the policy questions; he’s written dozens of articles and several books on the subject (including The Samurai, […]

As I posted below (here and here), the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has determined that the initial translation of Bin Laden’s tape was in error. According to both MEMRI and an Al-Qaeda website monitored by MEMRI, Bin Laden in effect offered peace to US blue states that voted for Kerry and warned red […]

Law profs Ellen Podgor and Peter J. Henning have started a new blog, White Collar Crime Prof Blog, the fifth blog to join the Law Professor Blogs Network. Check it out.

With Chief Justice Rehnquist ill and Republicans facing the possibility of a loss of the presidency, it’s time for those of us not at all pleased with the prospect of a President Kerry appointing Rehnquist’s replacement to put the blame squarely where it belongs: on Rehnquist. The man has been on the Court for over […]

According to U.S. News, One scenario making the rounds in Washington is that if Sen. John Kerry is elected, he’ll nominate New York’s Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to the U.S. Supreme Court. There she’d judge as a “law-and-order feminist” to build credentials to eventually run for president after Kerry. Sound crazy? Senate and even White […]

Last Thursday, I spoke on the Second Amendment, at Western New England College School of Law, in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the invitation of the school’s Federalist Society. The night before, the Red Sox won the World Series, and it was fun to be in the hotel bar, with plenty of Red Sox fans, as the […]

This is the most depressing presidential election for a libertarian since 1972. Maybe it’s worse than 1972, because that year one could, with good conscience, vote for Libertarian candidate John Hospers. This year, the Libertarian candidate is embarassing. And Ralph Nader has become a parody of the man who once supported some forms of deregulation […]

Ariel Beery of Columbia writes to emphasize that in his view the problem is not Massad per se, but the entire wildly ideological and intolerant Columbia Middle Eastern Studies Department. Ariel has also started a blog, focusing on the controversy at Columbia, that corrects several errors that have appeared in media accounts of the controversy. […]