Author Archive | David Bernstein

“Following the clashes, the Palestinian press reported that Naim was killed and that he was a medic with the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Gaza CLA, however, produced photographs of Naim posing holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a Kalashnikov assault rifle that had been posted on a Hamas Web site.” Not surprisingly, the percentage of […]

A new installment after a long break! I’m not sure if this really counts as a “food,” but it’s really good–at least if you like regular Hawaiian Punch. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever tasted a diet drink that tastes more like the original, and it’s only ten calories per serving. Even more good […]

Krauthammer is on fire today.

Lots of good stuff over at Truth on the Market blog, especially about the “stimulus package” and its disingenuous advocates (one of whose initials is P.K.).

Via Instapundit, Yuval Levin has by far the best essay I’ve seen about Sarah Palin. It’s too good to summarize, read the whole thing.

The UJC, the American Jewish community’s umbrella charity, sort of a Jewish United Way, has generally steered clear in the past of taking positions on controversial economic policies. However, the UJC is now actively lobbying for the Democrats’ atrocious “stimulus package.” Donors to UJC (I give a modest amount every year to the local Federation, […]

For applicants to law school for Fall 2007, the average “Caucasian/White” applicant to law school had an LSAT score of 154.9, and an undergraduate GPA of 3.32. The average “Black/African American” applicant had a LSAT score of 143.7 and an undergraduate GPA of 2.96. The standard deviation for LSAT scores is 9.97. For law school […]

Legal academia has a somewhat strange institution known as the

The traditional example of chutzpah is someone who murders his parents and then pleas for mercy because he is an orphan. I can’t top that one, but here’s one that comes close: being Prime Minister of a country that has violently suppressed its Kurdish minority for decades, and, in an attempt to put down a […]

Via Prawfsblawgs, I discover that the paper authored by several “progressive” law professors criticizing Cass Sunstein contains the following extraordinary statement, defending the precautionary principle: “It is difficult to think of a single public health or environmental threat that with the benefit of additional research has not proven even more dangerous over time.” Now that’s […]

One thing that’s clear from the recent Gaza conflict is that to many leftists, “violations of international law” is simply shorthand for “a country is engaging in military action that I don’t approve of.” A case in point is a statement, via Brian Leiter, by self-styled “American Jewish progressives” (some of whom, I note, seem […]

In Revolution by Judiciary, Yale Law professor Jed Rubenfeld notes that the “Lochner era” Supreme Court invalidated several federal labor statutes on the seemingly reasonable grounds that they were beyond Congress’ delegated power under the Commerce Clause. The Court held that Congress was regulating intrastate labor, not interstate commerce. But, Rubenfeld adds, The embarrassment was […]

True, but Obama won by, among other things, promising a net decrease in federal spending. Here he is during the third debate: “what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut…. What I want to emphasize … is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I’ve […]

Go to 3:54: “I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind.”

(1) A retired British colonel, on the BBC no less, says that there has been “no time in the history of warfare when an army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and the deaths of innocent people than the IDF” did in Gaza. UPDATE: I hadn’t noticed the typically “neutral” BBC headline at […]