Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

Stanley Fish has a well-written and interesting op-ed in the NY Times. (I don’t know whether the op-ed is available to non-subscribers.) Although mainly on the coming debate over the judicial philosophy of prospective nominees, Fish has a lot to say about constitutional interpretation: If interpreting the Constitution — as opposed to rewriting it — […]

I am having a strange, but pleasant day, dedicated to two leading gifts of Scotland to popular culture: Golf and Harry Potter. Golf x 2. I got up at 6:30am to watch TV coverage of the Open Championship at St. Andrews. The Old Course is a fascinating links. I played it about two weeks after […]

I see that Joseph Wilson is going to be interviewed on NBC’s TODAY show on Thursday morning. Given our adversarial press, this should be a wonderful opportunity for NBC reporters to get to the bottom of things. I would hope that they would ask Wilson questions about his complicity in his wife’s outing. If Wilson […]

Chief Justice Rehnquist was hospitalized overnight with a fever. He remains in the hospital.

Counterterrorism blog links to the transcript of the Scotland Yard press conference.

I was interested to see Eugene’s post on the use of the term “homicide bomber” instead of “suicide bomber”–a post that reprinted some of Juan Non-Volokh’s criticisms of the term. I considered posting on it when I linked an article from Sky News/Fox News, and was happy to see that my colleagues had weighed in […]

Scotland Yard held a news conference today revealing some details suggesting that the London bombings might have been done by 4 suicide bombers. Indeed, besides the probable suicide bomber on the bus (who has been tentatively identified), documents with the names of two of his friends were found on the trains, which at least suggests […]

The Guardian reports that Londoners are buying more bicycles: Public transit officials said the number of passengers using London’s vast bus and subway network, which handles 3 million people on a typical day, was back to normal Monday. Sales of bicycles have climbed since the bombings as workers look for alternatives to public transport, the […]

The question whether the London attacks were done by suicide bombers or instead by bombs on timers is an interesting one. The early suspicion that they were suicide bombings quickly changed to a tentative consensus that the bombings were on timers, the primary evidence being that the 3 bombs in the Underground were exploded within […]

Following up my earlier post containing partial or complete translations of the letter claiming responsibility for the London bombings, here is the BBC’s translation: In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, may peace be upon the cheerful one and undaunted fighter, Prophet Muhammad, God’s peace be upon him. Nation of Islam and Arab […]

[I edited the post below (without showing changes) to update it to include the information I was seeking with my original post.] I was pointed to a translation of the full text of the letter claiming responsibility for the bombings in London. Thanks are owed to Back to Iraq for the translation and the posting […]

In reviewing the betting at Tradesports (the Irish betting/trading outfit; on the left side of its main page, click on “Legal”), the probability that President Bush will nominate a Hispanic for the US Supreme Court is about half, with the probability that he will pick a woman about one-third. This suggests what should be obvious–that […]

I have been thinking about the ancillary effect of Kelo on other laws and on law firms, such as: What is a charitable use entitled to exemption from income and estate taxes? What is the meaning of pro bono for law firms? As background consider this crucial portion of the majority opinion in Kelo: [P]etitioners […]

There are two cartoons in the last few days that feature bloggers and catfood. Glenn Reynolds has DayByDay up on his site today. And yesterday Garry Trudeau in his Sunday Doonesbury strip was attacking bloggers (tip to my daughter Katie). He has Mark on the radio getting the better of a blogger named “Slamz88.” Mark […]

Todd Zywicki took issue with the claim in a NYT editorial that “the founders, who came up with the idea of a clear wall of separation between church and state, had it right.” Zywicki ambiguously commented: “no one seriously believes that it was the founders who ‘came up with the idea of a clear wall […]