Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

My belated take on Bush’s and Kerry’s Yale grades: One question struck me about even the one issue that people discussed about the Kerry release: his Yale transcript. The press reports compared Bush’s grades for 3 years to Kerry’s for 4 years, yet both Kerry and Bush were depicted as starting poorly and improving over […]

Thomas Lipscomb of the Chicago Sun-Times has a column on nagging doubts about the Kerry releases of military records to the Boston Globe and the LA Times (tip to Powerline). An excerpt: Now that the Boston Globe has in its possession what it claims are Kerry’s “full military and medical records” is the Globe ready […]

The latest Howard Dean flap is over his claim that Republicans are “pretty much a white, Christian party.” Since about 63% of the adult public in the US are white Christians, it would not be surprising if at least the majority in any party were white Christians. Here is the breakdown of white Christians in […]

The History News Network has published the results of an informal survey of historians and found George Bush to be a failure (tip to Instapundit) [ — a 2004 study that Instapundit recently linked, but did not say was newly published]. With Steve Calabresi, in 2000 I wrote up the results of a survey of […]

My co-blogger Orin is floating John Roberts as someone who might be able to get consensus support in the Senate (if not the 100-0 support that is being debated at the Debate Club). As my last post indicated, I have a more pessimistic view of whether opposition to a Bush Supreme Court nominee could be […]

I share the common ambivalence to the new deal on filibusters. Before the filibuster deal, I thought that some of the pro-Bush defenders of the filibuster were being unrealistic. The assumption seemed to be that, if Bush nominated a moderate or just an ordinary conservative for the Supreme Court, then there wouldn’t be a filibuster, […]

Michael Totten has an interesting piece in LA Weekly on his travels in Lebanon and the effects of the Cedar Revolution on people’s hearts and minds: “The national-unity drive,” Claude said. “That’s why I came out tonight. We are getting close to the war. That’s why the city government is asking us all to come […]

1. These Different Estimates Can Be Reconciled. There is a dispute over how to reconcile the recent published estimate of 24,000 extra war-related deaths in Iraq (Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004) with the previous Lancet study, which estimated about 98,000 extra deaths from the Iraq War. Tim Lambert has argued that these numbers are really […]

A French study of 5713 men collected resting and exercise data on pulse rates from 1967 through 1972. They then followed up on deaths in that group through 1994 (about one-quarter died). They found, among other things, that resting pulse rates predicted sudden death from heart attacks, though such sudden deaths were only a small […]

Ann Althouse has a nice post analyzing Raich, the medical marijuana Commerce Clause case. She thinks that the government is likely to win.

Tony Mauro has an interesting article on whether the number and tone of Supreme Court questions can tip off the final result in the case: In a new study entitled “The Illusion of Devil’s Advocacy: How the Justices of the Supreme Court Foreshadow their Decisions During Oral Argument,” Sarah Shullman came up with a surprisingly […]

Congratulations to Betsy of BetsysPage, who teaches (or has taught) AP US History and AP Government at the Raleigh Charter School. In Newsweek, her school placed 9th among public high schools choosing less than half of their students with grades or other entry credentials. I wish that I had had a teacher like Betsy when […]

When the Huffington Post was first announced, I noted that, while people were focusing on the celebrity group blog, the Drudge-like news service might be the most important driver of eyeballs: Aha! So someone who is not well known (or, more precisely, is about as well known as a lot of prominent non-celebrity bloggers), Andrew […]

I have been struck by the difference in treatment accorded Martha Stewart and the runaway bride, Jennifer Wilbanks. Stewart spent five months in prison for lying to federal investigators about getting and acting on a stock tip that most law professors that I’ve read (including Professor Bainbridge) believe was legal to get and act on. […]

OK, Eugene got help with an MS Word problem, so I thought I’d ask for help on an MS Word question. I am having problems with pages on which there are footnotes. Only a few pages in this manuscript have footnotes, but for some reason, the bottom margins (white space below text and footnotes) on […]