Mark Bauerlein, “a professor of English at Emory University and director of research at the National Endowment for the Arts,” has a long essay on liberal dominance of the universities. Elsewhere I have suggested a thought experiment. Imagine that law faculties were 80% Republican and leaning Republican and 10% Democrats and Democratic leaners. Would Democratic […]
Author Archive | Jim Lindgren
Stephen Bainbridge says that appointing Alberto Gonzales
the Attorney General would make him more, rather than less, likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court. I’m not so sure. But I do agree that the opposition to Gonzales would be muted for either position because he is more moderate than almost any other likely nominee. The brief clip that I saw from […]
Arafat is finally declared dead.–
The MSM are reporting that Arafat was declared dead Wednesday night (in France before dawn on Thursday). According to Debka, it was earlier agreed that Arafat would be declared dead on Tuesday night or Wednesday, but there was a last-minute snag in the plans when a Muslim cleric (Sheikh Taissir Tamimi) declared that Arafat was […]
Freedom of speech at Tulsa.–
I was struck by something in reading our blogfather Eugene’s post on the flap at Tulsa. IF the dean’s email is legitimate and IF it was in response to an email from the VP of the Republican Law Society, then the dean appears to be violating or encouraging violations of his or her own policy. […]
Real Clear Politics rates the pollsters,–
RealClearPolitics.com, the best of the poll sites this year, has rated the performance of the pollsters–both in the national race and at the state level. The state results differ slightly from the results I reported recently from Polipundit. RealClearPolitics reports in part: At the national level the answer to the question is pretty straightforward. Ed […]
Who is next for the Supreme Court?–
Alberto Gonzales (CNN photo). Senator Charles Schumer has released a letter to President Bush suggesting the candidates that he would favor for the Supreme Court (tip to the Corner). Personally, my uninformed guess is that Bush will nominate Alberto Gonzales for the next vacancy on the Supreme Court, though this is far from certain. White […]
Is Arafat nearly dead or still dead?–
Debka is reporting that Arafat died several days ago, which is contrary to what some Palestinian spokesmen are saying in other press stories. Who knows? I don’t. But the fact that the doctors are not saying anything is highly suspicious. UPDATE: Reuters reports that Arafat’s wife is accusing Palestinian officials of trying to bury Arafat […]
Best State Poll Predictions were from Rasmussen and Survey USA.–
Polipundit has a nice review of which polls did better in predicting state results. Rasmussen comes in 2d of the 11 polling agencies that Polipundit reviews. Survey USA comes in first. Here are some of the results: #11 – The LA Times Poll. … . #10 – Fox News Poll. … #9 – Quinnipiac University […]
Bill Stuntz writes on the 1896, 1916, & 2004 election pattern.–
Bill Stuntz, who started as an assistant professor at UVA when I was a visiting professor there in the mid-1980s, is now a professor at the Harvard Law School. He wrote me an email on the voting patterns that I and many others have been noting: There have been six elections with this basic pattern, […]
Evan Thomas’ great Newsweek story about the two campaigns.–
I have been reading the very long online Newsweek story about the election, which is apparently the heart of their special election issue. Although navigating through it is a bit of a hassle and the final chapters are not online (unless I’ve missed them), there is some great reporting by a host of Newsweek stalwarts […]
Debka on plans for Arafat’s funeral.–
Some of us rarely link Debka.com, an Israeli site run by former Time Magazine reporters, despite its record of important scoops, because it also publishes some farfetched and ridiculous stories. Its strongest reporting is on Israeli politics, followed by Palestinian infighting. Here it seems pretty reliable and extremely insightful. Once it moves out of that […]
A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?–
In David Brooks’ latest editorial in the New York Times, he rightly dismisses the conventional wisdom about the election, noting that evangelical turnout this time was about the same percentage of the vote as last time (tip Instapundit). He also notes: It’s ridiculous to say, as some liberals have this week, that we are perpetually […]
Is Bush a cross between Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan?–
I posted the maps that Ralph Luker and David Beito had suggested looked like mirror images–1896 and 2004. Two correspondents, Ash Valentine and William Quale, have pointed me to the 1916 map, with Bush playing the role of Woodrow Wilson. Here is the 1916 map from PresidentElect.org: It is kind of sobering to see George […]
The Distribution of States in 2004 closely matches 1896.–
Ralph Luker suggested that the 2004 election looked much like the 1896 election, with the Republican and Democratic states switched. What makes George Bush like William Jennings Bryan? David Beito has these maps: 1896 (from David Beito): 2004 (from David Beito): A comment to Beito’s post: [A]lthough the geographic divide remains the same, the parties […]
Arafat: If he is “brain-dead,” he is dead.–
The Agence France-Press (AFP) is reporting: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was “brain dead” and breathing only thanks to artificial life support systems, a French medical official said after conflicting reports as to whether he was alive or dead. In strictly technical terms, Arafat was “not dead,” the source told AFP on condition of confidentiality, adding […]