Author Archive | David Bernstein

In Marsh v. Valyou, the Florida Supreme Court (1)reiterated that Florida follows the Frye general acceptance test; (2) held that Frye doesn’t apply to a medical expert’s “opinion” testimony regarding causation; (3) held that even if Frye did apply, it should be applied only to the issue of whether the technique of “differential diagnosis” is […]

Several Paul supporters have pointed me to the Paul campaign’s official statement on racism, which they say makes it clear that Paul is against racism, and doesn’t want the support of racists. Color me unimpressed and unpersuaded, at least on the latter point. Here is the statement, with my comments in bold: A nation that […]

You can find defenses of Ron Paul from my criticisms here, here, here, here, and here. Unfortunately, the authors mostly engage in juvenile rhetorical antics, and none of them manage to address my central point: why does Rep. Paul’s campaign find it so difficult to simply issue a statement in Paul’s name that he neither […]

Here’s the tally so far; a surprisingly large percentage of well-known conservative professors have signed up with a campaign. Rudy Giuliani: Lillian Bevier, Steven Calabresi, Ronald Cass, Charles Fried, John McGinnis, Daniel Rodriguez, George Priest, Nicholas Quinn Rosencranz, Ron Rotunda Fred Thompson: Michael Abramowicz, Jonathan Adler, John Baker, Michael Dimino, Viet Dinh, John Duffy, Brian […]

With over 2,000 votes cast, Fred Thompson has a commanding lead in the VC straw poll. The vote, however, is quite fractured, with Thompson receiving only 23.1% of the vote, followed by Ron Paul, Barack Obama, and Rudy Guiliani at 18.2, 17.3, and 16.8%, respectively. Hillary trails badly at 7.1%, in a virtual tie with […]

Jews for Ron Paul 2008. With nifty Hebrew Ron Paul merchandise.

I blogged before about how much easier it was to get FIOS internet than Comcast Internet. However, while my internet service has been excellent, Verizon is losing a lot of my good will due to its billing customer service. I won’t go through all the gory details, but Verizon hasn’t responded to emails, when I […]

Over 90% of George Mason students who took their first Virginia bar exam last Summer passed, besting in-state competitors William & Mary, Washington & Lee, University of Richmond, and, for the first time, the University of Virginia. (Last year, our students beat everyone’s but Virginia’s). And yes, George Mason is a “national” law school that […]

My recent post about a lecture by Dr. Matthias Kuentzel on the connection between Naziism and modern Islamic radicalism garnered a lot of interests from readers, so I thought I’d mention that Kuentzel’s book, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Naziism and the Roots of 9/11, has now been officially released, though Amazon doesn’t have it in […]

Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols shaking hands with Ron Paul on the Jay Leno set (at the very end of the clip).

“In a contest between Boston lobster and Colorado beef, the shellfish left the meat charred and scarred.” Oy.

In case you needed further evidence that the McCarthy era of popular culture bears little resemblance to the actual McCarthy era, I give you the following cartoonish view of the era, which, perhaps not surprisingly, comes from a recent comic book. Reed Richards of The Fantastic Four is telling Peter Parker the Amazing Spiderman about […]

Starting tomorrow, I’m going to take a bit of a break from regular blogging. I have committed to writing two books, and I need to focus on them. I may (probably will) occasionally chime in, especially to update things I’ve previously blogged about before, but if and when I do, I’m going to leave comments […]

I apparently shocked some people by offhandedly noting in a previous post that USSC clerkships were somewhat overvalued on the teaching market. I could say more about this topic, but I’ll leave it to Dean Jim Chen of University of Louisville law school, who is himself a former Supreme Court clerk: The Supreme Court clerkship […]