A reader writes: Say an employer/business owner — who happens to be an Orthodox Christian — interviews a prospective female employee for a job opening. During the interview she let’s it be known that she is a married mother with young children and is planning on putting them into day care if she gets the […]
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Katharine’s Secret:
Quoth D-squared: I hereby question the “left” credentials, and indeed the commitment to democracy, of anyone who takes the government side against Katharine Gun. Saddam’s gone and nothing can bring him back. Whatever happens in Iraq, happens. The war was fought and cannot be unfought. All that turns on this case, is whether someone who […]
Appearance at Berkeley:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 20th, I will be speaking about You Can’t Say That! at Boalt Hall Law School on the UC Berkeley campus at 12:45 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public, and VC readers are invited to come by and say hello (and get a free lunch!)
Correction:
No time to go into detail, but getting a correction up has urgency: I appear to have misstated the procedures for selecting MP candidates in the UK, Australia, and Canada (single-member FPP parliamentary systems) a couple of days ago, by understating the importance of local party member selection and overstating the influence of the central […]
More on “Original Meaning” Originalism:
A few days ago I posted on Originalism and Precedent–The Next Big Issue. In passing, and without elaboration or defense, I noted that, after years of being a nonoriginalist, I had adopted a version of originalism based not on the intentions of the framers, but on the public meaning of the text at the time […]
Washington DC Book Tour:
You can come and question me in person about originalism as my book tour for Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty kicks off this week with four appearances in Washington DC. The public is invited to all events and posters at the schools should indicate the locations of the talks. If you do […]
What are the political duties of museums?
Most blog readers don’t click on the links, I have found. But if you don’t click on this link, don’t bother reading any further. The bottom line: a Swedish museum is displaying an artwork that would appear to glorify Palestinian suicide bombings. (In fairness I should note the artist, an expat Israeli, disavows this interpretation, […]
Nominate Professor Bainbridge:
Steve Bainbridge likes my earlier suggestion in NRO about using the threat of recess appointments to break the downward spiral over judicial nominees–and wants to be nominated himself. I think he would make an excellent choice. In fact, threatening to nominate him might end the downward spiral all by itself! You can read his assessment […]
Conspiracy in the court:
Reader Bob Ambrogi points out that a blog posting of mine has made it into a published opinion of the Massachusetts federal district court in the case of Suboh v. Borgioli. Alas, it was not some brilliant piece of legal reasoning, shot through with insight and perceptive legal analysis; instead, it was a reference to […]
Check out this article
and book review about the Russian (Orwell-like) critic of communism from the far left, Victor Serge. (Link via Arts & Letters Daily.)
Cannibalism:
Cool!
Further scandal at The Nature Conservancy:
The IRS is starting a large-scale audit of The Nature Conservancy, one of the largest non-profits in the nation. Today’s Washington Post presents the gory details, note that the published version is much longer and more detailed than the on-line account. Here is an earlier article. The institution made major loans to employees and board […]
Pickering:
Too bad Bush decided to use his first judicial recess appointment to appoint Pickering. As I’ve discussed before, Pickering was among the worst of the Bush judicial nominees. UPDATE: Readers have pointed me to this and this article defending Pickering, both of which I had previously read, and neither of which I find exonerates him […]
Solum on Pickering Recess Appointment:
I cannot blog on the Pickering recess appontment now as I am running out the door to see Urinetown. (Yes, that is the name of the play which I am assured is not a complete downer. I am not holding my breath, though perhaps with that title, I should be). In response to Eugene’s query, […]
The much-talked about recess appointments have indeed happened:
Bush just appointed Judge Pickering to the Fifth Circuit, though he had been blocked in the Senate before. I’m surprised, though, that they’d lead with Pickering — why not Miguel Estrada, who seems like he’d be politically more appealing? Is he coming down the pike? Or would some nominees not be even willing to consider […]