The Belmont Report discusses the difficulties that European powers are having in agreeing to pacify Lebanon until someone else pacifies it first: Though many people reflexively disagree with President Bush, his statement that the ceasefire in Lebanon under UNSC Resolution 1701 will collapse unless a major European country makes a substantial contribution of troops to […]
Author Archive | Jim Lindgren
Ann Althouse on the NSA Case in the NY Times.–
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Ann Althouse argues: TO end her opinion in American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency — the case that enjoins President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program — Judge Anna Diggs Taylor quoted Earl Warren (referring to him as “Justice Warren,” not “Chief Justice Warren,” as if she […]
Jules Crittenden: “Psalm 9-11: Fear No Evil.”–
Jules Crittenden, a journalist who was embedded with the troops in Iraq, has a deeply felt editorial in the Boston Herald: “Psalm 9-11: Fear No Evil”: Lullabies combat false monsters. Real monsters require something different. Psalms, like lullabies, give comfort. But they don’t mask or deny the threat. They embrace it, and show the way […]
NY Times article on NSA wiretapping quotes bloggers.–
In a very solid article by Adam Liptak in tomorrow’s New York Times, several bloggers comment on the weakness of the arguments in the recent NSA wiretapping case. Among those`quoted are Eugene and Orin (tip to Althouse, who notes how much the story conflicts with Friday’s praise for the decision’s reasoning on the Times editorial […]
Probable Lying at Dartmouth.–
I’m kind of between Todd and Eugene on the intimidation at Dartmouth issue (though I’m closer to Todd’s view). If Nick Stork’s account is true, an administrator calling Nick Stork in for a talk and letting him know that they have a dossier on him and saying that “We know who your friends are” seems […]
Question About the Original Meaning of 4th Amendment?–
I am quite skeptical whether the President is inherently exempt from statutory restrictions (especially procedural ones) on wiretapping. But the question I want to raise here is about the original meaning of the 4th Amendment. (BTW, I don’t necessarily believe that originalism is the only legitimate form of interpretative analysis, but I do think that […]
Comments on the PGA Championship.–
On Tuesday, I went out to the Chicago suburbs to watch the pro golfers playing a practice round for this week’s 4-day PGA Championship. The first of four rounds is underway today. The course is Medinah #3, which has hosted several major championships before. The course had more hills and was more interesting than I […]
Possible Breach of Fiduciary Duty at Black Box Voting?–
I. Introduction. I was cruising the diaries of AnonymousArmy at DailyKos and came across a late June 2006 discussion of a disturbing set of documents, the IRS Form 990 and Schedule A for the 2004-2005 fiscal year for the charity, Black Box Voting, Inc. (BlackBoxVoting.org). For those who are unaware, Black Box Voting is one […]
Italian Law Student Stabbed and Killed in Jerusalem.–
YNETNEWS reports that an Italian law student and peace activist was stabbed and killed in Jerusalem: Angelo Frammartino, a 24 year-old [law] student from Italy who arrived in Israel as a human rights organization activist, was stabbed to death Thursday by an Arab knifeman. “He believed in what he did and was always ready to […]
George Scialabba profiled in Inside Higher Ed.–
At Cliopatria, Ralph Luker points us to Scott McLemee’s profile of George Scialabba (and his newly published book of essays) in Inside Higher Ed.–and to what Rick Perlstein calls Scialabba’s “masterpiece”: “Message from Room 101.” In reading the essay Message from Room 101, I agree that it is indeed powerful and well written, marred only […]
Wall Street Journal Editorial on Controversial Forms of Surveillance.–
Friday’s Wall Street Journal editorial: ‘Mass Murder’ Foiled A terror plot is exposed by the policies many American liberals oppose. As we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11 without another major attack on U.S. soil, now is the right moment to consider the policies that have protected us–and those in public life who have fought […]
Terrorist was “always very naughty.”–
The Sun has a series of stories on the backgrounds of the terrorists arrested yesterday. As I read the accounts, for some reason I kept thinking that Mark Steyn (or someone with his satirical skills) could write a great column on the quotes from family and friends. Again and again, family or friends expressed surprise […]
Sun Reports: Arrested London Bombing Suspect Met Often With MP George Galloway.–
The British press is reporting the arrest of a prominent student Muslim leader, Waheed Zaman. Minutes later plain-clothes cops swooped on nearby 104 Queens Road and arrested biochemistry student Waheed Zaman, 23. He had been watching TV with elder sister Safeena minutes before being led to a van in handcuffs. The devout Muslim, who prayed […]
Proof of the staging of photos of dead children by “Green Helmet”–
On August 1, Orin Kerr suggested that, if David Bernstein’s claims of staged Qana photos were correct, then some evidence might show up on the video that was shot at the scene. Now German TV (with English subtitles) has a short report being shown on YOUTUBE that shows just the sort of evidence that Orin […]
More Phony Pictures From Reuters, and one from AP.–
The closer people look at Reuters news photos from Iraq, the more fraud they are finding. See the examples at Powerline, Jawa, and Drinking From Home. The last set linked seems to show more Hezbollah posed pictures for the Western press (and the involvement of the Associated Press).