Archive | November, 2004

Interesting post on the Emmett Till case over at the History News Network.

(Note: This entire post relies on the accuracy of the press account, from the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chicago student newspaper. If this account is incorrect, then neither in the post, in which case I’d just quote Bugs Bunny and say “What a bunch of maroons.”) NPR humorist Garrison Keillor, in what was surely […]

OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web points out a remarkably silly letter to a newspaper editor: Why They Hate Us . . . [C]heck out this letter to the editor of the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald from one Florence White (last letter): Am I the only one who finds the idea of sending candy to Iraqi children […]

The Los Angeles Times has a long and interesting story about my colleague Rick Sander’s work on how race preferences actually decrease the number of black lawyers (see the links below for Rick’s posts summarizing his findings). But here’s the headline: Professor Assails Anti-Bias Program The spin at the L.A. Times apparently begins with the […]

Howard links to this week’s debate over at Legal Affairs, which promises to be a good one: Judge Richard Posner and law clerk Randy Kozel debate, “Are Law Reviews Really Rubbish?” Kozel is Eugene’s former student, and (in case Article III Groupie is reading) a future member of The Elect. Posner is Posner. Check it […]

— quite amusing. Many thanks to David Lachmann for the pointer.

A couple of people have pointed me to the supposed list of IQs by state, which purportedly shows that nearly all the blue states have higher than average IQs, and most of the red states have lower. As one might have gathered, that’s apparently a hoax, according to the Economist, which I believe was the […]

The Yale Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society is hosting a symposium in April on what a progressive constitution should look like in the year 2020. (To fill in those outside of academia, “progressive” is more or less a synonym for liberal or politically left.) The symposium will feature many of the top […]

This time it’s from the Zionist Organization of America: The U.S. government’s Office for Civil Rights has launched a formal investigation into the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine, following a complaint submitted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Center for Law and Justice. The Office for […]

The annual Department of Justice report on capital punishment was released Sunday. The key findings: * In 2003, 65 inmates were executed, 6 fewer than in 2002.* 11 states had executions in 2003. 24 inmates were executed in Texas; 14 in Oklahoma, 7 in North Carolina; 3 each in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio; 2 […]

Pardon me for blogging what amounts to a classified advertisement, but I’m wondering if there are any VC readers who are computer forensics experts and might be willing to spend a bit of time explaining the forensics process to me. I am writing a law review article on how the Fourth Amendment should apply to […]

The Galvin Opinion reports: BUSH New York City 2000: 398,726 New York City 2004: 544,359 Difference: +145,633 NY Suburbs 2000: 607,224 NY Suburbs 2004: 720,719 Difference: +113,495 GORE/KERRY New York City 2000: 1,703,364 New York City 2004: 1,653,767 Difference: -49,597 NY Suburbs 2000: 865,926 NY Suburbs 2004: 815,412 Difference: -50,514 Thanks to InstaPundit for the […]

on the Chief. Thanks to Howard for the link.

As the New York Times indicated yesterday, internet rumors of vote fraud in Florida based on Democratic registration counties voting Republican were quickly spread and quickly debunked. Here is a nice summary by Howard Troxler (tip Instapundit) of some of the most common internet rumors about the election: At any rate, here are some of […]