[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Ambiguous Meaning of Falling Approval Ratings:

2003-11-05 Thread Randy Barnett
intentionally, is pretty widespread. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/5/2003 02:18:05 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] More on War and Technological Development:

2003-11-02 Thread Randy Barnett
On his blog, boyrobot's blog 'n' blather, Jonathan Burdick responds to my earlier blog on War and Technological Development. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/2/2003 04:16:54 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Those Jews If only Israel and its supporters would disappear:

2003-10-31 Thread Randy Barnett
executives, conspiratorial politicians, and greedy colonialists, and thus make life so difficult for the rest of us. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/31/2003 11:20:10 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] What makes Star Trek so successful?

2003-10-28 Thread Randy Barnett
Trek posts were female. So far as I know, this is not the stereotype of Star Trek fans. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/28/2003 05:24:35 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Solum on Bernstein on Janice Brown:

2003-10-27 Thread Randy Barnett
ideology. Quite the opposite, this is a quiet, sophisticated, and intellectual woman. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/27/2003 10:07:58 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Star Trek Reader Response:

2003-10-24 Thread Randy Barnett
Ryan character on Ryan's Hope, which NO I didn't watch as a kid). I thought she grew into the part. And then, dear Jacob, there is 7 of 9. 'nuff said. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/24/2003 09:26:04 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Event of the Age:

2003-10-24 Thread Randy Barnett
Victor Davis Hanson explains here why "each day the great gamble in Iraq is taking on significance that transcends the immediate tactical advantages that accrued from ridding the world of Saddam Hussein's savagery." --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/24/200

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Future of Blogs:

2003-10-22 Thread Randy Barnett
Apart from the creative stimulation I gain as a blogger, I find the phenomenon of blogs itself fascinating. Blogging seems to me revolutionary in ways not fully articulated and I have wondered what its future holds. So has Joho the Blog (link courtesy of Instapundit). --Posted by Randy Barnett

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Star Trek Enterprise: A New Beginning:

2003-10-22 Thread Randy Barnett
artrek/view/series/ENT/episode/128800.html --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/22/2003 12:45:32 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] RE: Withdrawing from an Accepting Law Review to Resubmit Later Elsewhere. . . :

2003-10-21 Thread Randy Barnett
Randy agrees with Lara. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/21/2003 10:08:35 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Remembering Herbert Hoover:

2003-10-20 Thread Randy Barnett
turn was not FDR's electoral landslide, but Hoover's rejection of his first Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/20/2003 07:51:24 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The taste of victory had gone sour:

2003-10-19 Thread Randy Barnett
that the cure has been worse than the disease. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/19/2003 12:59:29 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Howard Kurtz on Bush Hating:

2003-10-19 Thread Randy Barnett
From today's Washington Post: A Dislike Unlike Any Other? --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/19/2003 03:36:22 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Damn Yankees?

2003-10-18 Thread Randy Barnett
sport that it's OK for tweedy intellectuals to admit they like. Go Bears (wince)! --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/18/2003 01:01:34 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Short Memories:

2003-10-18 Thread Randy Barnett
blem these days. It's their critics. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/19/2003 12:26:42 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Whew, that was close:

2003-10-17 Thread Randy Barnett
With the losses of the Cubs and Red Sox I can now return to not caring at all about the supposedly intellectual game of baseball. If either, or especially both, had won their pennants, I might actually have watched a World Series. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/17

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Senatorial Lunacy:

2003-10-17 Thread Randy Barnett
really exist with 10 billion in debt. Jackasses.Read it and weep. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/17/2003 07:02:55 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] What Were They Smoking?

2003-10-15 Thread Randy Barnett
. Today, I see the reporting has been corrected. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/15/2003 09:39:16 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Zycher v. Lindgren on John Lott:

2003-10-02 Thread Randy Barnett
-and-forth of dueling experts in a field in which I lack the expertise to determine the answer.(For those who are unaware of the controversy, you should start with the blog of Tim Lambert, who first raised the issue.) --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 10/2/2003 09:54:31 AMPowered

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Bias Against Conservatives (and Libertarians) in Academia:

2003-10-01 Thread Randy Barnett
ool to have a chance of getting a job offer from that school. An implication of this is that, as you go up in the hierarchy and the competition is more intense, it becomes increasingly difficulty to exceed the competition by enough to overcome the normal inertia against such an appointment. --Pos

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Gated Internet:

2003-09-29 Thread Randy Barnett
o be too marginal to matter to the media giants who close off their data? What do you think? --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/29/2003 10:04:41 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The WSJ Editorial on Do Not Call:

2003-09-29 Thread Randy Barnett
A reader has helpfully created a link that others can use to access the editorial I mentioned earlier, The Do Not Call Dilemma. This does not, of course, affect the question I raised earlier about the gated internet. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/29/2003 02:37:19

[The Volokh Conspiracy] More on the Gated Internet:

2003-09-29 Thread Randy Barnett
) will the demand for open access on the web create sufficient competition with gated access to induce Big Media to open their gates. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/29/2003 03:06:42 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Still More on the Gated Internet:

2003-09-29 Thread Randy Barnett
more curious than its decision to gate its news stories. PS to Jacob: That was a "few words"? --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/29/2003 03:25:25 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] What Happened to Gridlock?

2003-09-25 Thread Randy Barnett
has solely to do with the relationship between a measure's genuine, as opposed to its purported, popularity and the speed with which it can be enacted into law. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/26/2003 12:06:22 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Second Amendment Litigation Strategy:

2003-09-23 Thread Randy Barnett
ly today's--are a must read for gun rights advocates. For opponents of gun rights, it will make your day. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/23/2003 11:51:31 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Analysis of Today's Recall Decision:

2003-09-23 Thread Randy Barnett
Larrry Solum analyzes today's recall decision of the 9th Circuit here. It includes excerpts from the opinion and links to commenatary and reporting. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/23/2003 01:48:29 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Larry Solum on Res Judicata

2003-09-22 Thread Randy Barnett
Larry Solum shares his thoughts on res judicata and today's recall argument before the Ninth Circuit on his world renowned Legal Theory Blog. (It was kind of weird to watch the argument on CSPAN this afternoon from the very same courtroom in which I argued on Tuesday.) --Posted by Randy Barnett

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Hear me speak at Boalt Hall

2003-09-16 Thread Randy Barnett
I will be talking about the medical cannabis case on Wednesday, September 17th at 4:30pm at Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley if any readers of Conspiracy want to drop by to listen. The talk is being sponsored by the Boalt Hall chapter of the Federalist Society. --Posted by Randy Barnett

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Fcuknig amzanig:

2003-09-16 Thread Randy Barnett
be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/16/2003 11:59:34 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Victor Davis Hanson--The Great Divide:

2003-09-11 Thread Randy Barnett
Jerusalem and New York? And if there is not a connection to be made in method and ideology, why not? --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/11/2003 03:52:50 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Zogby International Poll of Iraqis:

2003-09-11 Thread Randy Barnett
interviewed, as well as the following religious groups - Shiaa, Sunni and Christians. Interviewers traveled to public places (shopping areas and coffee shops) chosen from different social neighborhoods. The survey's margin of sampling error is +/- 4.1%. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9

[The Volokh Conspiracy] New Zogby Poll of Iraqi Public Opinion:

2003-09-10 Thread Randy Barnett
the past be punished, or should past actions be put behind us?" A thoroughly unforgiving Iraqi public stated by 74% to 18% that Saddam's henchmen should be punished. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/10/2003 10:12:13 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Solum on Estrada:

2003-09-05 Thread Randy Barnett
he highest constitutional court is the Senate itself. Here is the bottom line. Unless the Senate leadership pushes hard for a rule change, it looks like the filibuster of judicial nominees has been entrenched as consistent with the customs and rules of the Senate.There is much much more. Check it out. --Poste

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Libertarians Against the War:

2003-09-05 Thread Randy Barnett
by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/5/2003 09:54:49 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Libertarians Against the War:

2003-09-05 Thread Randy Barnett
. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 9/5/2003 09:54:49 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Another column by VDH: Hoping We Fail:

2003-09-01 Thread Randy Barnett
the Iraqi and American people. . . . --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/31/2003 08:00:19 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] From the APSA in Philly: Walking Among the Framers:

2003-08-29 Thread Randy Barnett
on their differing physical appearances and stances. If you follow the constitutional debates and ever get to Philadelphia come see this exhibit. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/29/2003 07:43:19 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] My turn for 20 Questions:

2003-08-25 Thread Randy Barnett
20 Questions, the interview series on Crescat Sententia, continues with an interview with me! Find it here. (For the last interview with Legal Theory Blogger, Larry Solum, click here.) --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/25/2003 06:46:15 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Latest Analysis of Iraq From Victor Davis Hanson:

2003-08-22 Thread Randy Barnett
resistance from the world at large. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/22/2003 12:37:03 AMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] My New Paper on Judicial Review:

2003-08-22 Thread Randy Barnett
retation or at least is a factor to be considered among others. It is equally important that these nonoriginalists are made aware of the substantial evidence that the original meaning of the "judicial power" included the power to nullify unconstitutional laws. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Vol

[The Volokh Conspiracy] An interview with Larry Solum of Legal Theory Blog:

2003-08-19 Thread Randy Barnett
In the third of a fascinating series, Will Bauge of Crescat Sententia presents his 20 well-researched questions to Legal Theory Blogger Larry Solum. You should definitely check this out here. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/19/2003 09:05:15 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Update on OCBC Medical Cannabis case:

2003-08-18 Thread Randy Barnett
The oral argument for the OCBC medical cannabis case before the Ninth Circuit has been scheduled for September 17th. I am in San Jose today for a moot court at Santa Clara Law School to prepare for the argument. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/18/2003 09:24:41 AMPowered

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Will the Federalism Revolution Cut Both Ways?

2003-08-18 Thread Randy Barnett
federalism opinion applying US. v. Lopez and especially US v. Morrison to the issue of child pornography where no economic activity of any kind was involved. Everyone interested in federalism should read this case. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/18/2003 10:56:42 AMPowered

[The Volokh Conspiracy] New Scholarly Exchange on emBush v. Gore/em

2003-08-14 Thread Randy Barnett
Carnival: Nelson Lund's Carnival of Mirrors" Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 19, p. 619, 2003 --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/13/2003 08:24:16 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Pacific Bell Sues Recording Industry for Customer Privacy

2003-08-14 Thread Randy Barnett
e subpoenas that disclose the identities of targeted individuals and link their names to gay-themed adult porn, making it impossible for them to regain their privacy later even if the allegations are patently false." --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 8/9/2003 12:33:04 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] I Revise My Views on GlennReynolds.com:

2003-07-24 Thread Randy Barnett
ive and work in more ideologically diverse surroundings. This part of the equation would need more in-depth study of demographic data, etc. as we have less info available than we have with regard to liberal media bias. Frankly, I am amazed by how much you can learn by blogging. --Posted by Randy B

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Longer Version of Justice Kennedy's Libertarian Revolution Now Available:

2003-07-23 Thread Randy Barnett
bited as liberty, he turns to the purported justification for the statute and finds it inadequate. This represents a marked rejection of the fundamental rights jurisprudence as it has developed since Griswold v. Connecticut, and the adoption - sub silentio - of a "presumption of liberty.&qu

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Off to Old Europe:

2003-07-23 Thread Randy Barnett
ious about the reactions of these liberal (in the European sense) students from throughout Europe to recent international events. Drinking sessions should be even more interesting than usual. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/23/2003 10:18:30 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Regulation of Gins

2003-07-22 Thread Randy Barnett
y gin when they pull the martini glass from my cold, dead fingers . . .;-)By the way this was not a product of spell checking as some assumed, but rather the problem of hasty posting. The best thing about such mistakes is that it reminds you there really are readers out there. --Posted by Randy B

[The Volokh Conspiracy] How Would You Organize the Militia?

2003-07-21 Thread Randy Barnett
on a Militia? which will be published in the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/21/2003 06:20:14 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] New Website OnPower.org:

2003-07-16 Thread Randy Barnett
he globe and the alternative of non-interventionism. No issue is more central to the debate over public policy and more crucial to making peace, open markets, individual liberty, and the rule of law the cutting edge for future change. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/16/2003 08:04:54 P

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Layers Principle:

2003-07-15 Thread Randy Barnett
and peer-to-peer file sharing, and (8) the regulation of streaming video at the IP layer.The paper is also worth reading for its accessible description of how the internet works. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/15/2003 07:55:17 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] When is Real Faux?

2003-07-11 Thread Randy Barnett
quot; You don't suppose he really DOES know us do you?--Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/10/2003 08:31:34 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Justice Kennedy's Libertarian Revolution

2003-07-10 Thread Randy Barnett
Rather, it protected "liberty" ? and without showing that the particular liberty in question is somehow "fundamental." Appreciation of the significance of this major development in constitutional law requires some historical background. . . . . --Posted by Randy Barnett to The

[The Volokh Conspiracy] When is Real Faux?

2003-07-10 Thread Randy Barnett
quot; You don't suppose he really DOES know us do you?--Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/10/2003 08:31:34 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Solum v. Goldberg

2003-07-09 Thread Randy Barnett
Larry Solum takes on NRO's Jonah Goldberg on the issue of dead constitutions. Jonah's reply is here under the title FASTER TEXUALISTS, KILL! KILL! --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/9/2003 12:49:22 PMPowered by Blogger Pro

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Sue the Stud Manufacturer?

2003-07-09 Thread Randy Barnett
she and a friend were caught in a downpour. A flash of lightning bounced off a nearby archway and hit her in the face, where it was conducted by the metal jewellery in her tongue. . . . More here or (just to prove its real) here. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/9/2003 06

[The Volokh Conspiracy] More on emLawrence v. Texas/em

2003-07-08 Thread Randy Barnett
ot; Click to it here. It is truly amazing what is now available on the web. --Posted by Randy Barnett to The Volokh Conspiracy at 7/8/2003 09:35:45 AMPowered by Blogger Pro