A new and improved version of my review essay, “Was the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Conditioned on Service in an Organized Militia?” has been accepted by the Texas Law Review. Although it won’t appear in print until December (at the earliest), you can read a pre-edited version now by downloading the file from […]
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Why You Should Attend Cato University This Summer:
For the past several years, I have lectured at the Cato University–a week-long feast of libertarian lectures and discussions in the most pleasing atmosphere of the Rancho Bernardo Inn near San Diego. This year the seminar conflicts with my annual lectures at the Europe and Liberty Seminars organized by the Institute for Economic Studies, which […]
Does sex sell?
“In an analysis of American box-office receipts for 250 movies released last year, the Christian Film & Television Commission (CFTVC) found that films that stressed “strong moral content” made an average $92,546,413 — six times the revenue of those that focused on “immoral, negative content.” Those movies brought in an average $14,626,234. On a broader […]
Shades of the sex education debate?
From the Press-Enterprise: Assemblyman Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, is pushing legislation meant to reduce accidental shootings by adding an optional firearms safety curriculum for the state’s 6.1 million K-12 students. . . . “Guns are just a fact of life,” Dutton said. “I think it’s really important for young people to understand how dangerous they […]
Public housing residents and the right to keep and bear arms:
By the way, my quick NEXIS search didn’t find any newspaper articles, even in Michigan papers, discussing the constitutional case mentioned below. Seems like a shame to me. This is an important issue, which raises all sorts of basic social and legal questions: the rights of the poor, the power of the government, courts’ obligations […]
“Romanian villagers decry police investigation into vampire slaying.” No, I don’t think it’s a joke. Toma Petre’s relatives pulled his body from the grave, ripped out his heart, burned it to ashes, mixed it with water and drank it . . . . Villagers here aren’t up in arms about the undead — they’re pretty […]
Nigeria meets Three Kings: The latest scam spam I’ve gotten, and the first that has an Iraq war connection: FROM CAPT DESMOND ANDREWBAGHDADIRAQUE “We are urgently seeking for your willingness to secure the below consignment as shown in the attached photos! “The consignment was captured here in Baghdad, abandoned in one of the Saddam Hussein’s […]
Can public housing residents be denied the right to keep and bear arms:
A week ago, in Lincoln Park Housing Comm’n v. Andrew, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that a public housing agency may bar its tenants from possessing guns. The public housing agency, though, is governed by the Michigan Constitution of 1963, article 1, section 6 of which says “Every person has a right to keep […]
Precedents:
Apropos the “Rice will testify, but only on condition that the commission agrees that it won’t set a precedent” deal, Tom Grey writes (without expressing any opinion on the underlying merits of the executive privilege dispute): As one of my colleagues [Bill Cohen] says in faculty meetings, whenever this gambit is tried: “This won’t set […]
Spring is here, spring is here.
I confess it seems odd to me to have the season opener played in Japan. But I’ll take my opening day Yankess losses any way I can get them.
“The Brethren (and Sistren)”:
Lawprof Eric Muller (IsThatLegal?) writes: Last week, two of the five justices on the Wyoming Supreme Court were brother and sister: Justice Marilyn Kite and her brother Judge Ken Stebner. (Stebner is a trial judge who was sitting on the Supreme Court for a few days by designation.) Inquiring minds want to know: is this […]
Very sad news:
The eminent legal philosopher Joel Feinberg, Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at the University of Arizona and author of some of the most powerful and complete articulations and defenses of legal anti-moralism and anti-paternalism, has died. Chris Maloney has circulated the following note: Friends, I regret to inform you that Regents Professor of […]
Blogospheric consolidation continues:
An already-excellent group-blog just got even better. John Holbo and Belle Waring are joining Crooked Timber, which should bring their blogging to the wider audience it deserves. By my count this brings Crooked Timber’s roster to 15, one more than the Conspiracy’s. UPDATE: Kieran Healey takes the “roster” thought one step further…
High utility bill leads to search of house?
Reader Michelle Dulak pointed me to this story: A family whose high electric bill sent police on a futile hunt for indoor marijuana cultivation at their Carlsbad home is asking for an apology in writing. The raid at the Ivy Street home of Beryl and Dina Dagy was one of 25 conducted Friday in North […]
This is very odd.
In this week’s Chronicle (subscription may be required, I’m not sure) Alan Wolfe documents the fascination of the contemporary intellectual left with the Nazi political philosopher Carl Schmitt. He notes, accurately, that in the wake of Communism’s collapse some on the radical left “developed a fascination with neofascist thinkers and movements in Italy, as if […]