A few days ago, questions were raised first by Big Journalism and then by me about a story that Michael Bellesiles published in the June 27th issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Teaching Military History in a Time of War. I have now read through every DoD casualty report from last fall for both […]
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Michael Bellesiles’s Newest Tale
In its June 27, 2010 issue, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an essay by Michael Bellesiles, Teaching Military History in a Time of War: Yet the reality of teaching in wartime, most particularly at a working-class college such as Central Connecticut State University, is that war has touched the families of many of our […]
F.A. Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” is the #1 Bestseller on Amazon
Late Tuesday night, F.A. Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” is the #1 Bestseller on Amazon (this afternoon I think it was ranked about 200-300). There’s a reason: the book was the subject of Glenn Beck’s show today. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out Glenn Beck. One day he is (ridiculously) calling Cass Sunstein “the most dangerous […]
Michael Bellesiles and the Bogus NRA Conspiracy
Eugene [Volokh] quotes from an editor at the New Press who is peddling the ridiculous notion that [Michael] Bellesiles was a victim of an NRA conspiracy instead of someone who destroyed his own career by writing a book (Arming America) that did not hold up when some of us checked his evidence, including work based […]
Late Sunday Night Stock Futures Explode to the Upside
Shortly after midnight ET on Sunday night / Monday morning, the Dow futures are up 254 points, while S+P 500 futures are up 31 points and NASDAQ up 51 points. That’s a lot for overnight futures.
Elena Kagan: “I LOVE the Federalist Society! I LOVE the Federalist Society!”
By Jim Lindgren on May 10, 2010 12:10 am in American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Kagan Nomination, Supreme Court
Charles Fried tells part of the story about Elena Kagan’s appearance at a Federalist Society dinner at Harvard a few years ago: In February 2005 the student branch of the Federalist Society (a group founded in the early ’80s to explore and promote conservative and libertarian perspectives on the law) held its national jamboree at […]
“South Park” Creators Warned (Threatened) Over Mohammed
CNN reports: The radical Islamic Web site Revolutionmuslim.com is going after the creators of the TV cartoon series “South Park” after an episode last week included an image of the Prophet Mohammed in disguise. . . . On Sunday, Revolutionmuslim.com posted an entry that included a warning to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt […]
Obama Compromises on Off-Shore Drilling
Kudos to President Obama for agreeing to open up some areas for off-shore drilling (though not nearly as much as we need). This appears to be a significant step in the right direction. In the summer of 2008, candidate Obama hinted that he might be willing to do this, but by inauguration last year he […]
Why Would Congress Question Corporate Executives About Disclosures of Health Care Costs?
Megan McArdle has a good post on Congress’s decision to hold hearings about corporations’ disclosing their charges against earnings based on estimates of health care costs: The Democrats, however, seem to believe that Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are some sort of conspiracy against Obamacare, and all that is good and right in America. Here’s the […]
A Citable Version of Hamburger’s Privileges or Immunities Article Now Online
In the discussion of the McDonald case a few weeks ago, I posted a link to Philip Hamburger’s manuscript, Privileges or Immunities. His forthcoming article, which will be published by the Northwestern Univ. Law Review, is now online in a version that may be cited and quoted.
Sowell: Nov. 2010 may be “the point of no return”
At RealClearPolitics, Thomas Sowell writes ominously about the political future: The corrupt manner in which this massive legislation was rammed through Congress, without any of the committee hearings or extended debates that most landmark legislation has had, has provided a roadmap for pushing through more such sweeping legislation in utter defiance of what the public […]
What’s next for the Obama Administration?
At Pajamas Media, Victor Davis Hanson observes: There won’t be any more soaring rhetoric from Obama about purple-state America, “reaching across the aisle,” or healing our wounds. That was so 2008. Instead, we are in the most partisan age since Vietnam, ushered into it by the self-acclaimed “non-partisan.” But how could it be anything else? […]
Barack Obama sends me personal email thanking me for passing health care
I received the following email from Barack Obama personally Monday morning at 1:06am: James — For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment. Tonight, thanks to you, we are finally here. Consider the staggering scope […]
Rasmussen: 43% now strongly disapprove of Obama, same as Bush when he left office
When George Bush left office he was deeply unpopular: in Bush’s last month, according to Rasmussen 43% strongly disapproved of the job Bush was doing, while only 13% strongly approved, for a staggering negative rating of -30%. Rasmussen’s Thursday release shows that after 14 months in office President Barack Obama has achieved Bush’s 43% of […]
Obama sends his praise for efforts on behalf of health care reform
This afternoon my conversation with a law student friend of my daughter’s was interrupted by a robocall to his cell phone pushing Obama’s health care bill. Then, after reading Ann Althouse, I noticed that, like Ann, I had received an email of praise — directly from President Barack Obama himself — thanking me for my […]