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Clayton Cramer, who knows a lot about antebellum history (he is the author of Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1997)), has a detailed response to various statements Roberts has made about slavery. Readers of this blog know that I have many differences with Clayton Cramer; but I have always found him to […]

True or false? Israel is the first sovereign Jewish entity since the failure of the Bar-Kochba revolt again Roman rule of Judea in 135. False. I know of several others: (1) A Jewish commonwealth briefly existed (for thirty years, as I recall) in Persia in the fifth century, following a revolt against Zoroastrian persecutions. I […]

Paul Craig Roberts understandably takes exception to my criticism of his work. He writes: I believe your comments on my article criticizing the Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index misrepresents my message. Historically, self-ownership is defined as ownership of the products of one’s labor. “Free labor” is labor that owns itself. This is the only comparison […]

An AP story reports: About 40 people gathered outside an Eckerd store Monday, protesting what they said was a decision to deny a rape victim a prescription for the morning-after pill. A spokesman for the Largo, Fla.-based company confirmed that Eckerd has taken disciplinary action in response to an incident at the pharmacy. . . […]

For my previous comments on the Holocaust (prompted by David Bernstein’s post on Mel Gibson), see post #1 and post #2. Lynn B. at InContext was “simmering” after my first post; but in her update (after my second post) she says that she still disagrees but now understands where I’m coming from, and promises a […]

John Rosenberg points to a Detroit Free Press article by a columnist who says that Establishment opposition has also hampered the initiative’s efforts to find legal counsel. Most of the lawyers who specialize in state constitutional law work for firms affiliated with one of the two parties, and law firms who work for the University […]

You can now purchase my new, coauthored treatise on expert evidence, The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence, from Amazon. The publisher’s website (which is only selling the book as part of a series, though I’ve been promised the site will be updated and clarified) describes the book as follows: Expert Evidence, by David H. Kaye, David […]

Several of you have written me and claimed that we already let in everyone who wants to come. I’ve seen similar arguments circulating around the blogosphere. This is simply untrue. Some illegals overstay their visas, but of course visas are hard to get in the first place, especially if you are from a poor country. […]

Yesterday I considered how we might think about immigration reform. One key problem was our limited ability and willingness to treat immigrants on a harsh and differential basis. This problem resurfaces in a number of guises. Let us now consider option number 3 (see the link for the full list), namely taking in many immigrants […]

If you cannot attend today’s book forum on Restoring the Lost Constitution at the Cato Institute–featuring comments by Walter Dellinger and Judge David Sentelle–you can watch or listen to it using RealVideo or RealAudio. It starts at 4:00pm ET. Click here for more information.

“all entrances and exit points and all interior spaces, excepting bathroom and private office areas,” so that they can “delineat[e] on playback . . . the activity and physical features of persons or areas within the premises”: That’s what a Garden Grove, California city ordinance requires — because apparently three of the 22 cybercafes in […]

Should you have unearthed, during your digging around the detritus of our long-vanished civilization, the Op-Ed article in yesterday’s New York Times by Erin Sullivan (“The Stars Have Voted“), do not be misled. You wouldn’t know it from reading the article, but we actually did not believe that the configuration of the stars at the […]

Kerry is so very, for those of you who remember the ad slogan for Keri lotion. (I watched a lot of TV commercials during the ’80s.) Of course, when you run anything by Google, you find that others have been there first. See here, here, here, etc. UPDATE: Thanks to reader Reid Palmeira for finding […]

finds it disconcerting that I don’t believe in the moral uniqueness of the Holocaust. He leaves it to others to refute me, but he has a go at it anyway, pointing to anti-Semitic statements by the Palestinian Authority as evidence that the Holocaust is part of a history of anti-Semitism that isn’t over yet. (He […]

Interesting perspective on the Clark campaign: I can’t speak to its accuracy, but it struck me as worth reading.