Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

Larry Solum, who is one of the most insightful commentators on papers I’ve ever met, is liveblogging on the Legal Theory Blog from the Harvard Bloggership Conference. He even posted several times from the podium while others were presenting. Ann Althouse, another of my favorite bloggers, is also live-blogging the conference. The link for the […]

There have been conflicting reports on whether two teachers were beheaded in front of their students: BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Ministry of State for National Security said on Wednesday two groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad and beheaded two teachers in front of their students. But the U.S. military and a police […]

In 2004 I thought that Iran’s nuclear facilities might be bombed by the US or Israel in the few months after the 2004 election. What I didn’t know then was the difficulty of succeeding at this task, even if such a decision were to be made. And then there’s the blowback in Iraq and Europe. […]

according to a coalition of left-wing advocacy groups. As regular VC readers will recall, I wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal noting that the ABA’s new accreditation standard 211, which is due for a final vote this Summer, requires law schools to engage in racial preferences, even when it’s contrary to their own […]

even if it sometimes seems that way. Cheers to Northern Kentucky University president Jim Votruba: A Northern Kentucky University literature professor could be disciplined for her role in the removal of nearly 400 crosses that were erected on campus as part of a school-sanctioned display by a right to life group. Tenured professor Sally Jacobsen, […]

today’s International Herald Tribune: “French in streets, but it’s not ’68; Protesters seek to ‘keep what we have’.” That sums it up pretty nicely — the student protesters (who I’m sure consider themselves great radicals) are, this time, protesting for the status quo, in the face of the government’s efforts to change French labor law […]

An article about law faculty blogging in the National Law Journal has received a lot of discussion in the legal blogosphere. Lawblogger extraordinaire Paul Caron has a nice roundup. I wanted to comment further on a point highlighted by Ann Althouse: [J]ust counting the numbers of bloggers is not very accurate. For example, Chicago has […]

I had been meaning to post a few days ago on today’s Supreme Court argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case (since it overlaps with one of the areas I write in: Estates & Trusts). After the 9th Circuit reversed an 88.5 million dollar bankruptcy judgment in favor of Anna Nicole Smith, Anna–using her usual […]

Debka, the Israeli website run by former Time Magazine reporters, is reporting (i.e., speculating) that the bombing of the holy Shiite shrine in Samarra was committed by the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi. (Unfortunately, the story on Debka has no permalink (scroll down to “Sectarian violence left 130 dead across […]

In his Thursday post, the Iraqi blogger, Iraq the Model, reports tense and worrisome developments and news reports. According to unconfirmed reports by factions in Iraq, more than 120 mosques have been attacked, burned, or blown up. Spokesmen of the Islamic Party and Muslim Scholars claim more than 120 mosques have been blown up, set […]

Kausfiles analyzes the efforts of Austrian prosecutors to punish David Irving more severely for holocaust denial (tip to Instapundit). Austrian prosecutors are asking to increase the three year sentence meted out to (despicable, creepy, infamous etc.) British writer David Irving for violating a criminal statute that penalizes anyone who “denies, grossly plays down, approves or […]

According to the New York Times, 11 journalists in 5 countries are facing prosecution for publishing Mohammed cartoons: In a direct challenge to the international uproar over cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, the Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani wrote: “What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of […]

Michael Totten has a typically insightful piece on how things are going in Kurdistan: In January 2005 the Iraqi Kurds held an informal referendum. More than 80 percent turned out to vote. 98.7 percent of those voted to secede from Iraq. Not only have the Kurds long dreamed of independence, when they look south they […]

The Weekly Standard reprints excerpts from an amazing letter that John McCain sent to Barack Obama. Here is the Scrapbook note and the McCain letter (subscription required): Democratic senators Harry Reid and Barack Obama tried to pull a fast one on John McCain and got hit with the literary equivalent of a B-52 strike. McCain’s […]

In an earlier post, I asked for those with special expertise to examine the text accompanying the second extra cartoon of Mohammad, the one depicting him as a demon pedophile. I wondered whether the lettering suggested the possibility that the original language of the author of the cartoon was Arabic, not a Western language using […]