The latest quotes from the JournoList emails are on the initial response to Sarah Palin. I remember being shocked at the viciousness of the attacks at the time. Defenders of J-List have argued that the Daily Caller (DC) is taking quotations out of context. That is certainly possible. For that reason, it would be better […]
Archive | 2010
A Note to All the Non-JList Reporters, and a Response from Henry Farrell
(Update: Henry Farrell, GW professor and blogger at Crooked Timber, also someone who I respect a lot despite some disagreements, dropped me a note about this and gave me permission to post it. I have put it up at the end of the post, and I would ask you not to comment unless you have […]
CIA Names New National Clandestine Service Chief
CIA director Leon Panetta has named a new National Clandestine Service chief, reports Peter Finn in the Washington Post today. The new chief, John Bennett, has been serving as station chief in Pakistan, overseeing in particular the expansion of the drone campaign carried out by the CIA there. One may take that as further evidence that […]
“NOT the ‘Whiteman’s Bitch'” Rejected as Candidate’s Label on a Ballot
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board rejected an independent Wisconsin Assembly candidate’s request to label herself on the ballot as “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’”: Unlike candidates from the established Democratic and Republican parties, independents are allowed a five-word statement of purpose on the ballot to explain to voters what their candidacy […]
More on JournoList: Election Night 2008 and Nate Silver’s Life on J-List
1. A New JournoList Thread on the 2008 Election. The Daily Caller has yet another JournoList thread up on its website. Members are expressing their strong emotions and expectations for the future on the day Barack Obama was elected president. Though some of the comments on Nov. 3 and 4 look a bit silly in […]
DAAG Marty Lederman to leave OLC
Another member of the Obama Administration’s “beachhead team” is leaving OLC. About one month after Acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron announced that he was returning to Harvard Law School, Deputy Assistant AG Marty Lederman has announced he’s leaving the Office in August and will return to Georgetown University Law Center this fall. I understand […]
An Interesting “Rape by Fraud” Case from Israel
The Guardian (UK) reports: A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew. Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after the court ruled that he was guilty of rape by deception. According to the […]
“Outrage Over [Canadian] Ruling That Mom Who Strangled Daughter Won’t Be Jailed”
The Vancouver Sun reports. The judge found the mother guilty of manslaughter and not murder, which in context sounds like a judgment that she did not intent to kill her 14-year-old daughter. But the mother’s conduct still seems appalling enough to merit serious punishment, even in the absence of an intent to kill: Magomadova was […]
Florida ACLU Gets Sheriff’s Office to Return Man’s Guns
The Sun-Sentinel reports; this is the case I blogged about last week. Here’s an excerpt from the story: “Just as a kind of a query, what legal authority does the sheriff or anybody have to walk in to someone’s home and take property?” [Broward Circuit Judge Dale Ross] said. “Don’t we call that, in the […]
JournoList Members Discussed Whether the Government Should Shut Down Fox News
It appears from the last few days’ stories that JournoList was even worse than I’d always suspected. The Daily Caller reports that UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff raised the possibility of a government shutdown of Fox News and defended pulling their White House press pass: The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into […]
Intro Property Class Bleg
This fall I will be teaching Introduction to Property for the first time since Fall 2008. I think I would be remiss if I didn’t include something about the mortgage crisis that contributed to the more general economic crisis of that year. So I have a request to my fellow property professors and other relevant […]
Property Rights in Rings of Power
Co-blogger Ken Anderson asks my opinion on property rights in Rings of Power. I refer Ken and other interested readers to my thorough May 2008 post on this subject, which includes links to some of the other commentary on this important issue. Nasty Hobbitses have no property rightses in our Preciouss!
Are There Property Rights in Rings of Power? Or … ‘My Precious’
A question for Ilya! Given that the gods have at least some property rights, I can’t help but wonder about property rights and the Rings of Power. Does the ring belong to you … or do you belong to the ring?
“A Word of Thanks to Four Black Men and A Gun”
Marcus Cole reflects movingly on McDonald v City of Chicago in A Word of Thanks to Four Black Men and A Gun. As an American, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to many, many people who have risked and given their lives to defend our liberty. But as I reflect on the recent Supreme […]
Deepening US Special Ops Forces in Pakistan
By Kenneth Anderson on July 20, 2010 11:59 pm in Targeted Killing, Uncategorized, War and Armed Conflict
Julian Barnes has a good story in today’s Wall Street Journal on the expanding and deepening boots on the ground role of US special operations forces in the Pakistan border region. It is well sourced and reported, and overall points to a deeper cooperation with the Pakistan military. I wanted to flag a couple of […]