Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

Bill Moyers took extreme exception to Dr. E. Calvin Beisner’s suggestion that Moyers sought to use his television programs to help Democrats retake Congress — and threatened a defamation suit. Dr. Beisner, through counsel, rejects Moyers’ demand for a retraction and “desires to attempt to restore that relationship outside of the civil courts as Christians […]

The brief filed this week on behalf of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Engine Manufacturers Association, National Automobile Dealers Association and Truck Manufacturers Association in Massachusetts v. EPA (the global warming case, about which I’ll have more to say later), features a very high-powered roster of attorneys. Among those listed on the brief are former […]

There was lots of activity and acrimony relating to habeas corpus petitions on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week. On Thursday, the Court rejected a petition for rehearing en banc in Keith v. Mitchell over the dissent of four judges. The original three-judge panel split 2-1, with Chief Judge Boggs […]

Yesterday, in State ex rel. Ohio Congress of Parents & Teachers v. State Board of Education, the Ohio Supreme Court narrowly rejected a series of constitutional challenges to charter schools. Voting 4-3, the Ohio Supremes held that the state legislature did not violate the Ohio state constitution when it enacted legislation authorizing the operation of […]

The debate over the teaching of evolution and “Intelligent Design” will be placed in front of Ohio voters on November 7. As the New York Times reports, 75 of my scientific colleagues at Case Western Reserve Unviersity have endorsed a candidate for the Ohio Board of Education because, according to their letter, the incumbent has […]

After recently visiting Gitmo, Mark Steyn writes a column focusing only on the positive side of treatment there. But in the course of his seemingly one-sided presentation, he makes a thought-provoking observation (tip to Betsy): If I had to summon up Gitmo in a single image, it would be the brand-new Qurans in each unoccupied […]

The existing political science literature tends to emphasize the loss of seats in Congress in midterm elections, which it nicely documents. In a comment to appear soon in the Yale Law Journal (vol. 115, pp. 2611-2622), Steve Calabresi and I document the loss of state governorships in off-year and midterm elections. You can download a […]

I am going to be at a conference at the U. of Kansas Law School in eastern Kansas on Oct. 20-21. I have long been curious about Prairie Dunes, the classic links golf course in Hutchinson, KS. I am a big fan of links courses, my favorite being Scotland’s Turnberry, though Dornoch, St. Andrews, Lahinch, […]

One of the many amazing posts on the website of suspected Montreal killer, Kimveer Gill, who posted as “fatality666” are the results of some online polls he took (August 31). He reports that he had an 84% chance of going postal: Some quizes I did How evil are you? Take the quiz: Which famous dictator […]

Some news organizations, such as the Calgary Sun, have identified the Canadian gunman at Dawson College in Montreal as Kimveer Gill, age 25. The police have neither confirmed nor denied Gill as the killer. The Sun, on its CNEWS website, published a picture purporting to be Gill in a black trench coat holding a gun, […]

Some news organizations have identified the gunman who walked into a Montreal school, opened fire, and then turned a school cafeteria into a “shooting gallery.” According to reports on CNEWS, he is Canadian-born Kimveer Gill, age 25: CNEWS: “Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval poses for a photo posted on the goth website VampireFreaks.com in a […]

After my post on ABC’s coverage of the threat of global warming, I read through some interesting bits of the evidence on issues I raised. Several commenters pointed me to an interesting blog, Real Climate, which seemed to be a reasonable treatment of issues written by those who generally accept the orthodox view of man-made […]

Remember those phony stories that individuals and the press were spreading about Republican plans to bring back the draft after the 2004 election. Fraudulent emails were sent to college students laying out supposed Republican plans, and some in the press covered them, not as the hoax they were, but simply as a seemingly plausible story […]

ABC News had a special report Wednesday night on the end of the world. I caught little more than the last segment, which focused on what was presented as the greatest threat to human existence: global warming. Among the claims that were repeated multiple times (by Al Gore and others) were that there was no […]

David Bernstein has some excellent advice for second-year law students. In particular, as David notes, many students may not realize that most students work much less hard in their last two years, so if you work as hard as you probably worked in your first year, you have a good chance of getting better grades. […]