Washington state law criminally punishes people who “knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence” “[f]ail[] to provide [an animal in their care] with necessary food, water, shelter, rest, sanitation, ventilation, space, or medical attention and the animal suffers unnecessary or unjustifiable physical pain as a result of the failure.” Hey, I have two dogs; I certainly […]
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Drama competitions and flag desecration:
Several readers have e-mailed me about this Florida Sun-Sentinel report: Archbishop McCarthy High students [were disqualified] from a [drama] competition early this week for their performance of The Children’s Story. In the play, first published in 1963 by Shogun author James Clavell, third-graders in a classroom in a United States that has been defeated by […]
Mel Gibson: Holocaust Denier?
I haven’t wanted to prejudge Mel Gibson’s film on Jesus, nor have I wanted to judge him based on his affiliation with a sect that rejects Vatican II, nor based on the anti-Semitism of his father. I’ve gotten many concerned emails from Jewish friends on all of the latter topics, and have basically ignored them, […]
Complete Book Tour Schedule:
Although I intend to confine myself to one post a week announcing the immediately forthcoming dates for my book tour for Restoring the Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, I have received several queries from readers about whether I was coming to a particular city or state. So I decided to post the entire tour (subject […]
Moveon.org and CBS
Did CBS interfere with Moveon.org’s “right to free speech” by declining to air its anti-Bush ad during the Super Bowl? Nope.
Claremont Review of Books:
RE: David’s post on the Claremont Review of Books. Coincidentally, I subscribed last week after reading my second issue on the USAIR Shuttle to DC. But I used a credit card to subscribe on line.
Time to Raise the Medicare Eligibility Age:
Washington Post: “The White House has concluded that adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare will cost one-third more than the $400 billion advertised by Congress and the administration when President Bush signed the bill into law less than two months ago, federal sources said yesterday.” If the President had shown any leadership on this issue, […]
Claremont Review of Books:
Quite by accident, I recently came across a copy of the Claremont Review of Books. It is a truly excellent publication. The books for review were well-chosen, and the reviews I read (almost all of them) were uniformly interesting and well-written. I can’t think of another print publication I’ve enjoyed as much recently. And although […]
Citing unpublished opinions:
Howard Bashman blogs some more about the controversy over proposed Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1. Brief summary of debate: Many federal appellate decisions are unpublished, and aren’t supposed to be binding precedent. Many federal circuits actually prohibit the citation of these decisions in briefs before the circuit, and before federal district courts in that […]
One Last Post on Bush and Liberals:
My posts on Bush and Clinton-hating provoked much ado in the blogosphere, but what struck me most is how many liberal commenters (especially in the comments sections of various blogs) argued, “sure Bush is spending tons of money on discretionary programs,” but (1) it’s still not enough; (2) a smidgeon of it is going to […]
Coffee updates:
(See my earlier post, complete with updates, and Brad DeLong’s original.) Follow-up posts from:Dan Drezner, James Joyner, Steve Taylor, Mark Hasty, Bryan S, Josh Cherniss. By the way, I entirely agree with all those writing that coffee is superior to diet soda. Well, good coffee is. But a) good coffee isn’t always available, and b) […]
Opportunism:
Yglesias: “Bernstein says liberals hate Bush not because he’s a conservative, but because he’s an opportunist. Delong explains that, no, the problem with Bush isn’t his conservatism, it’s his opportunism. They’re both right.” But riddle me this, Batman: how many politicians who aren’t opportunists get very far in the world? It’s sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, […]
Thinkers on coffee:
Even before Levy and DeLong, Socrates himself famously said, “An uncaffeinated life is not worth living.” Or something like that.
Your landlord has a legal duty to restrict your speech,
if it’s offensive enough to cotenants based on race, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or familial status (or, in some jurisdictions, sexual orientation, political affiliation, occupation, or “matriculation”). That’s what Neudecker v. Boisclair Corp., a case that the Eighth Circuit federal court of appeals decided last month, held as to disability, but its logic applies […]
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