MaderBlog writes: On March 20th, Toronto “anti-war” activists are planning a protest to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the commencement of operations to liberate the people of Iraq. Sadly, groups such as this often receive media coverage far exagerating their public suppport, partly because of the passivity of supporters of liberty. With this in […]
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Congress reversing judgments of the Supreme Court:
A bunch of people have e-mailed me about this bill: The Congress may, if two thirds of each House agree, reverse a judgment of the United States Supreme Court– (1) if that judgment is handed down after the date of the enactment of this Act; and (2) to the extent that judgment concerns the constitutionality […]
Crime Severity and Constitutional Line-Drawing:
I’m very pleased to report that Crime Severity and Constitutional Line-Drawing will be published in November/December 2004, in the Virginia Law Review. Interestingly, the law review is a temporary home to Crooked Timber’s Micah Schwartzman and to Unlearned Hand. It’s also a journal in which I’ve never published, but long wanted to.
“The Passion” Not Leading to Increased Anti-Semitism:
This article is headlined “‘The Passion’ May be Reducing Anti-Semitism.” That seems like too broad a conclusion to draw from the data presented, but that data, showing that the film isn’t leading Americans to blame today’s Jews for the death of Jesus is interesting, though to me, at least, expected. I’d be more interested to […]
Now that Calpundit’s gone pro…
(See here, and Eugene’s post here) …I think every blogger whose work I read every day is either a professor, a current student, or pro- or semi-pro in one way or another. (I’m counting professional writers like Virginia Postrel as ‘pros,’ as well as people who blog for a magazine like Matthew Yglesias, Kevin, and […]
Unintentional self-parody of government overreaching:
Hit & Run and NoodleFood point this out. I quote from the Sunday Herald (U.K.): WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit? An apology, maybe? Counselling? Champagne? Compensation? Well, if you’re David Blunkett, the Labour […]
Dissents:
A while back I criticized the changes in the personnel of the bioethics commission. Over at TCS, Paul Seaton registers his disagreement. Elsewhere, Justin Katz tries to set me straight (so to speak) about the conflict of interest that should prevent newly-married lesbian journalists from covering the gay marriage story (I think he thinks I’m […]
Spooner Award Finalists:
Laissez Faire Books has announced the four Spooner Award finalists for the best book on liberty published in 2003. The finalists are: James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny;John Lott, Bias Against Guns;Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment; andmy own, You Can’t Say That! According to LFB’s website, “these four finalists have been submitted to a jury, which consists […]
Blogger gets cool job!
Congratulations to CalPundit for his new gig, just announced by The Washington Monthly: Dear friend of The Washington Monthly, For 35 years, The Washington Monthly has delivered deeply reported stories from the nation’s capital that anticipate and explain the big issues facing the country before the rest of the media gets around to them. Now, […]
Iraqi federalism:
My New Republic column is online. It’s become fashionable to bash Iraq’s provisional constitution in the last week, and everyone from The Washington Post’s editors to TNR’s own Spencer Ackerman has gotten in on the act. Critics have charged that the constitution devolves too much power to local authorities and creates a central government too […]
Dane-Geld:
I thought I’d pass along this Kipling poem I’ve always liked. It actually isn’t one of his best from the standpoint of craft — his historical poems generally aren’t, I think — but it’s still pretty good: It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to […]
Explicit Kerry:
Reader Bill Rudersdorf points to the Oxford English Dictionary, which lists the following definition as the first one for “explicit”:
Arresting clergy for performing same-sex marriages:
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports: [T]wo ministers were charged Monday with 13 counts of marrying gay couples in New Paltz 10 days ago. But experts said Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams’ reasoning in bringing the charges against two Unitarian Universalist ministers for performing 13 such ceremonies on March 6 carefully treads the line separating church […]
In case you needed a reminder as to why you should be reading Mark Kleiman’s blog:
This wise and judicious post should do. Predictability is good in a watch, bad in a blogger. If you already know what I think about an issue before reading what I have to say, why bother reading it? And why should I bother writing it? (That’s part of the reason I link to only a […]
State Department reviewing its Second Amendment Web page:
Yesterday I posted a list of errors in a State Department-provided Web page on the Second Amendment. Today, an acquaintance tells me that the State Department Web page has been replaced with the text “(The accompanying essay is under review.)” I don’t know if they did this in response to my criticism, or to criticism […]