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From AFP: “The head of the EU executive arm, European Commission chief Romano Prodi, agreed, in an interview published by Italy’s La Stampa newspaper. ‘It is clear that using force is not the answer to resolving the conflict with terrorists,’ Prodi said.” I haven’t seen the original interview in La Stampa, nor could I understand […]

The AP story reports that Kerry did indeed say that the identity of the foreign leaders who allegedly support him is “none of our business”: The town meeting was contentious at times, with 52-year-old Cedric Brown repeatedly pressing the candidate to name the foreign leaders whom Kerry has said are backing his campaign. “I’m not […]

Check out this chapter (UPDATE: The page has been at least temporarily removed, but I’ve put up a google cache version of the original page here) of a publication distributed by the State Department, one of the just five that are most prominently presented on the Publications page on the Department’s site. There’s much that […]

From this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education: Lawrence Rudolph, general counsel at the National Science Foundation, says it has been several years since his agency had programs solely for minority students. A 1980 federal law directs the NSF to operate programs that increase minority representation in the sciences, but “no matter what statute is on […]

I’m more than a little disturbed by the widespread blogging to the effect that the Spanish election results represent a great victory of al-Qaeda, that they show that European countries can successfully be blackmailed by terrorism, etc. It’s particularly grating to see such commentary from Americans who, collectively, had had much less experience with terrorism […]

The Restoring the Lost Constitution Rockin’ Book Tour continues this week in Boston & New Orleans: BostonTuesday, March 16th:Barnes & Noble @ BU (7:00pm) New OrleansWednesday, March 17th:Tulane College Senate Annual Lecture (4:00pm) Next week: University of Nebraska, University of Michigan, Notre Dame, IU Bloomington and St. Louis University.Full tour schedule is here.

Four of the former En Banc bloggers (Chris Geidner, Jeremy Blachman, Nick Morgan, and PG) have now started De Novo, a very promising-looking legal blog. This morning’s material is an “online symposium” — four essays (by Howard Bashman, Doug Berman, Larry Solum, and me) on legal education. Check it out.

As readers of this blog know, I’ve been quite critical of people calling others “traitors” simply because they disagree with them about the war or about foreign policy. There should be plenty of room in civil debate for good-faith disagreement about what’s good for the country. Moreover, decent Americans can still sometimes consider the legitimate […]

New on the You Can’t Say That! homepage: A link to a RealVideo feed of me discussing the book on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country.

Guest Commentary on Crawford v. Washington by Prof. Richard Friedman: I asked Prof. Richard Friedman of the University of Michigan Law School to provide VC readers with a commentary on last week’s Supreme Court Confrontation Clause decision in Crawford v. Washington, a decision that has not received sufficient attention in the blogosphere (but see here […]

A very interesting Debka analysis of yesterday’s terror attack in Ashdod, Israel. One never knows exactly how much credence to give Debka, but this one seems plausible. Main points: (1) the terrorists managed to slip out of Gaza while Israeli forces were distracted by a diversion–two armed Hamas men, reported killed Saturday; (2) the target […]

I recommend an excellent column in Sunday’s Boston Globe by Jeff Jacoby: The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe. After providing a chilling list of recent attacks on Jews in Europe, here is how it ends: Whether this massacre [in Spain], like those in Istanbul and Bali and at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, […]

I’m about to go on the Lowell Ponte radio show (888-822-TALK) talking about free speech law and more (or so goes the plan), probably for about an hour (6 to 7 pm Pacific).

Say that Aznar’s party lost in the Spanish election partly because some Spanish voters (it need not have been a majority, or even close to it) thought the Madrid bombings were al Qaeda’s retaliation for the Spanish involvement in Iraq, and wanted to punish Aznar for it. Of course, this might not be the correct […]

A Pennsylvania TV station reports (thanks to InstaPundit for the pointer): The town meeting [in Bethlehem, Pa.] was contentious at times, with 52-year-old Cedric Brown repeatedly pressing the candidate to name the foreign leaders whom Kerry has said are backing his campaign. “I’m not going to betray a private conversation with anybody,” Kerry said. As […]