Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

Amazon has some sales on Father’s Day gifts, including exercise equipment, 45% off on South Park DVDs, and 50% off on men’s sandals. Oh Boy!

The New York Times has an interesting story on a copyright case involving a possible sequel to The Catcher in the Rye: The judge, Deborah A. Batts of United States District Court in Manhattan, granted a 10-day temporary restraining order forbidding publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that […]

After President Obama

In its July issue, Consumer Reports (subscription required for full content) updated its online ratings of digital cameras. From the site Product Reviews and Bargains, here is a list of some of the top choices : For advanced Single Lens Reflex cameras (SLRs), [Consumer Reports] recommends the Nikon D300, Canon EOS 40D, and Olympus E-3. […]

The leader of the free world has now spoken on Iran (text via L.A. Times blog): Remarks on Iran by President Obama during a White House photo op, June 15, 2009 Obviously all of us have been watching the news from Iran. And I want to start off by being very clear that it is […]

It couldn’t be worse timing, but Dennis Ross, the US envoy to Iran, is being reassigned. People don’t know exactly why Ross is being ousted. It might be because he was thought to be too hawkish, or too pro-Israel, or simply because Iran didn’t want to accept Ross as an envoy because he is a […]

In President Obama

CNBC is reporting that the US Treasury Department is proposing to require that issuers of securitized loans retain 5% of the security. Thus, they remain partly on the hook if they make bad loans and try to flip them to others. At first glance, this seems like a good idea to me.

In an address given in 1844, abolitionist Charles Dexter Cleveland contended that the U.S. Post Office not only suppressed abolitionist writings, but also provided a massive subsidy from the profitable Northern routes to the unprofitable Southern routes. It occurred to me that this consideration could well have explained why abolitionist Lysander Spooner decided to establish […]

From The Financial Times: President Barack Obama is due to unveil a raft of executive compensation reforms as early as Wednesday that will see the pay of the top 100 employees of bailed-out companies vetted by a new official. A new Special Master, expected to be Kenneth Feinberg, the former head of the 9/11 compensation […]

Stuart Taylor’s article on the public’s opposition to racial preferences and support for the nondiscrimination principle includes an interesting exchange from the New Haven firefighters case: Race: Sotomayor And Obama Versus Voters. It’s clear that Americans want racially preferential affirmative-action programs abolished. . . . [S]enators and others who speak out for nondiscrimination and against […]

Sean Higgins warns us of the failure of Europe’s cap-and-trade regime: The major cap-and-trade bill now working its way through Congress is not without precedent. The European Union has had a cap-and- trade regime in place for years. It just hasn’t worked so far. Begun in 2005, the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme has raised energy […]

The Pew Research Center has an interesting item on the subject. An interesting item (one of many in the piece): [S]ome 99% of all immigrants from Mexico call themselves Hispanic. But just 87% of immigrants from Venezuela adopt this label, as do 86% of immigrants from Argentina, 70% of immigrants from Spain and only 67% […]

From Stewart v. Howe, 17 Ill. 71 (1855): This was an action for slander, commenced by Sophia Howe, by her next friend, complaining of Amos Stewart. The words, as proved, were:

Dias v. City & County of Denver (paragraph break added): [T]he plaintiffs have alleged a substantive due process violation sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. Viewing the factual allegations in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, as we must, the complaint plausibly alleges that the [pit bull […]