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Archive | 2010
Tim Carney Denounces Corporate Welfare At Invitation of Charles Koch
According to Jane Mayer, this makes him a corporate tool: I was the main speaker of the night at a fancy dinner. The crowd included millionaire business owners and corporate executives. And the man who introduced me, and who had invited me to speak, was billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. My topic was what it always […]
On the Latest Eco-Terrorist
“Grover Cleveland” at Pileus offers these thoughts on James Lee: James Lee (the Discovery building hostage taker and crazy environmentalist) no more represents left-wing environmentalists than do violent “right-wingers” (such as Timothy McVeigh) represent those people who are conservative, libertarian, or anti-government. I can see conservative demagogues using Lee to bash left-environmentalists, but I think this is quite unfair even if liberal/progressive […]
“Evidence-Based” Study Tips
The Psychologist (published by the British Psychological Society) rounds up some of the academic research on effective study habits. (Hat tip: Tyler Cowen)
Redundancy?
Okay, I am giving in to the Popular Will, against my better judgment. What do VAT tax, PIN number, ATM machine, all have in common? Feel free to list more in the comments, including your views on whether this is acceptable language usage or not. (Put them here, rather than the comments to the VAT […]
VAT Tax?
Daniel J. Mitchell at the Cato blog has a new post up, continuing an argument against the imposition of a VAT tax in the United States. His argument in that piece is fundamentally that a VAT tax does not really solve the fiscal problem, but instead merely invites government to grow with the revenue stream, […]
Obama is too a Christian
Ann Coulter’s column today argues that Obama is not a Muslim; rather, he “is obviously an atheist.” The gist of the argument is “The only evidence for Obama’s Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years….Attending Wright’s church is the conscious, calculated decision to immerse yourself […]
Will Mitch Daniels Run?
Here’s the latest speculation about whether Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels might run for the Presidency in 2012. I hope he does: From what I know at this point, he’s my favorite potential GOP candidate.
Obama import ban on rifles confirmed
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about an article in the Korea Times reporting that the Obama administration was blocking the import of American-made M1 Garands and M1 Carbines which the South Korean government wished to sell into the U.S. market. The Korea Times reported that an unnamed Korean official said that the American government […]
The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment Thread?
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that the comment thread to my post from yesterday, The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment?, is now at 314 comments.
Forum v Jurisdiction
Could anyone point me to a link giving a basic, plain language discussion of the difference between forum and jurisdiction in American law? Something that I could use with a group of non-US lawyers – clear, not too long, basic distinctions? Thanks.
Dispositive
I’ve been using this word a lot in my first-semester Criminal Law and Torts classes, and finally one student had the nerve to ask me what it meant. I thought everyone knew, but just as a fish is said to not perceive the water in which it swims, so I didn’t recognize that the word […]
S.F. Municipal Transit Agency Accepts Ad for Gun Rights Conference, Depicting a Woman with a Gun
This is so despite Muni’s earlier refusal to allow a movie ad showing police officers wielding guns, apparently on the grounds that it “appear[ed] to promote the use of firearms.” The new ad, for the Gun Rights Policy Conference does promote the use of firearms. But I’m pleased to say that the Muni took it […]
Turning the Page or Taking a Global Nap?
The text of President Obama’s Iraq speech from last night is here. The parts that most interested me were, first, the idea of ‘time to turn the page’. Merely my view, of course, but it seems to me (along with practically all the other critics of the speech, to be sure) an ambiguous and ambivalent […]
Ladies Nights’ at Private Nightclubs Are Not Unconstitutional
A pretty obvious conclusion, since the nightclubs aren’t the government, and the Equal Protection Clause applies only to the government. But now there’s a Second Circuit decision so holding. Thanks to How Appealing for the pointer.