Obama administration to Jews: pay no attention…
…to the fact that we appear to be betraying you. I wonder if the reassurance will work.
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Spambot of the day
Inappropriately cheerful and upbeat spambot (because the following comment was placed on a blog post entitled “See no evil: sadistic terrorists and ‘World War III’”): That’s a pleasant blog post! I am so pleased you thought to write about it.
Continue reading →San Diego discovers…
…that two can play at this boycott game. [Hat tip: Instapundit.]
Continue reading →Why didn’t they…
…have deans like this when I was in law school? And oh—here’s a few for you guys.
Continue reading →The Harvard Law legacy of plagiarism (and Kagan and Obama and Tribe and Ogletree and Dershowitz…and Tom Lehrer)
Jack Cashill, who has previously stirred up controversy by alleging that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father, connects some dots about the prevalence of plagiarism and/or ghost-writing among Harvard Law School professors, and the dubious role of Supreme … Continue reading →
It’s all Bush’s fault
No surprise here. Yglesias preaches to the BDS choir. Fortunately, the American people are no longer taking the bait. The demonization of Bush was an important element in the sequence of events that paved the way for Obama’s election. But … Continue reading →
Why all those SCOTUS Catholics and Jews?
Orin Kerr notes at Volokh.com that Kagan’s likely confirmation will mean that the Supreme Court will be entirely composed of Catholics and Jews, with no Protestant representation at all. Kerr has no overarching theory about this, except for the obvious … Continue reading →
An “F” for Attorney General Holder: he don’t need to read no steenking Arizona law
Just when you think your expectations are already low enough, and nothing can further surprise you about the Obama administration and its appointees, something happens that proves you wrong. Case in point: Attorney General Holder’s statement that—although he’s already opined … Continue reading →
The 2010 US election: as Europe goes…
…so goes the 2010 US election?: …[I]t does appear to many that within the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership there is the sentiment that America would be a better place if it were more to resemble Western Europe… … Continue reading →
CBO raises HCR estimate
Now they tell us. And no doubt that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Continue reading →Babies care
You think babies are just selfish slugs? Think again. According to researcher Paul Bloom (the article is long, but worth reading in its entirety), they have a capacity for empathy, however rudimentary: Human babies, notably, cry more to the cries … Continue reading →
Kagan roundup
Obama and Kagan, whispering in the faculty lounge. Does Kagan have that common touch? Kagan was no pushover as a prof. And Kagan is not gay, say friends. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The following qualifies as the … Continue reading →