Oliver Kamm writes: See if you can spot the non sequitur in this unhinged editorialising by the Middle East correspondent of the Church Times, the newspaper of the Church of England: The assassination of the Hamas leader, who was disabled, has intensified Arab anger over what is perceived as Israel’s arrogance — and its uncritical […]
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One Last Post on Rankings:
Brian Leiter provides a handy chart, with the U.S. News top 40 law schools, faculty quality as determined by Leiter’s rather good survey of top law professors, LSAT at the 75th percentile (as a measure of student quality), and class size. Leiter notes that George Mason’s 165 75th percentile LSAT is based on a very […]
Bomb found on Spanish railway line:
The New York Times reports. Thanks to Dan Schmutter for the pointer.
How Hollywood milks European governments, by RiShawn Biddle in the American Spectator: To see how Hollywood has turned Germany’s — and Europe’s — crusade against so-called American cultural imperialism to Tinseltown’s Titanic advantage, check out The Punisher, the action film based on a Marvel Comics comic book about a vigilante antihero. Featuring the raffish American […]
Rankings Insanity:
For all the talk, including by me, of the excessive weight given by prospective law students to U.S. News rankings, I heard a rankings story last Summer that was much worse than anything I’ve heard about prospective law students. I was chatting with a Yale Law student, and I asked him where Yale grads work […]
We Jews
are apparently a biased, untrustworthy lot — but at least we can read. Empty Days begin its response to my legitimacy post this way: The Volokh Conspiracy (which is an all-jewish neocon outlet by its own admission) doesn’t understand how giving some international legitimacy to the Iraq war could improve things there. Oh, that’s what’s […]
Jon Rauch writes: On March 22, in Gaza, Israel shot a helicopter-fired missile at Yassin. Reaction was swift and scathing. The British condemned the attack as an “unlawful killing.” The European Union said that extrajudicial killings were “contrary to international law.” Turkey’s prime minister said, “This was a terrorism incident.” Most of the United Nations […]
Another K-12 school T-shirt case:
From the AP: An openly gay teenager received a $30,000 settlement from the city over her suspension for wearing a “Barbie is a Lesbian” T-shirt to school, her attorney announced Thursday. . . . [The girl’s] lawyer, Ron Kuby, filed the federal suit last June, alleging the incident was part of a series of discriminatory […]
The limited benefits of legitimacy:
Fred Kaplan (Slate) writes, about the Fallujah killings: If there is a way to deal with the insurgents, it will be fundamentally political — and it will have to take shape in the next few months. Two things are necessary. First, the occupying “coalition” must be broadened, and the occupation authority must be turned over […]
Feinberg:
The University of Arizona has posted an obituary of Joel Feinberg, as has the AP.
Chicken law:
From the Smithfield Times (in Virginia): The Grace Street chickens remain under threat after Smithfield town attorney Bill Riddick issued one chicken owner a March deadline to get rid of her chickens or face potential legal action. When the letter was sent, Grace Street resident Sarah Gilliam still had two chickens left after sending the […]
Ranking the Law Schools by Median LSAT
on US News’s website (premium access required), Georgetown moves up to seventh, Fordham to sixteenth, BYU to 21st, U. Washington to 25th, GMU to 31st, Cardozo to 35th, Baylor to 36th, San Diego to 44th, Brooklyn to 46th, and Lewis and Clark to 47th. As I mentioned previously geographic desireability seems a significant factor in […]
Polls:
I’d be happy to see Tom Daschle be defeated in his Senate race, but this item doesn’t much excite me: Daschle Slipping in SD Polls In February, an Argus Leader/KELO-TV poll showed Daschle defeating Thune 50%-43%. A new poll just taken by the Rapid City Journal/KOTA/KSFY shows that Daschle is backsliding to 48%-43%. Note, Thune […]
Sons of Martha:
Something reminded me this morning of this poem, which is one of my favorites; so I thought I’d blog a link to my earlier post about it, nearly two years ago now. One might not think a poem about engineers (more or less) could be great, but this one is.
The Israel-Egypt Peace After 25 Years:
Interesting analysis here (link requires free registration with Jerusalem Post). The author notes that Begin made a huge strategic blunder in retaining control of Gaza, thereby linking it with the West Bank and strengthening Palestinian identity and the case for a unitary Palestinian state (before 1967, Egypt controlled Gaza, Jordan controlled the West Bank, and […]