Many of you have no doubt read on other sites about Chief Wiggles effort to bring toys to Iraq, and the way Newsweek discounted it. I have been remiss by not posting the effort on my own site, and I will fix that later today. If you have any doubts about whether the effort to send even small
The Post is correct, certainly, that their poll registers that people are not buying the argument that Iraq is the "central front" in the War on Terror -- but they are still buying the argument that it is conceptually of a piece with the overall War on Terror (an argument, by the way, that far
Paul Bremer has been bashed for weeks for not heeding the wise council of the State Department and it's infinite prescience and therefore knowing he should have kept the Iraqi Army intact. Never mind that many of those articles have obviously been based on State Department sources. Now into the
A PBS-documentary with an agenda! Oh, say it ain't so! And it's too bad, too, because the coverage of the Iraq war in particular broke such new ground that we have barely begun to think through the implications the issues are so richly textured.
Consider just the question of whether the
GeekPress, and Stone, call this link "Worst Album Covers Ever." I call it "Best Album Covers Ever," check it out. I also like the cover of The Notorious Byrd Brothers, the horse in the far right window was a stand-in for David Crosby, whom McGuinn had recently thrown out of the band. --Posted
This president, I think, is in a rhetorical box that there may not be a way out of. This is the second time this week the Times has brought up the idea of the president attending military funerals. (Sunday, of course, Maureen Dowd was on him for not attending for any.) But he can't. For the
The Washington Times runs this story (thanks to Michael Williams for the pointer):A Christian mother is appealing a judge's decision that prohibits her from teaching her daughter that homosexuality is wrong.
Cheryl Clark, who left a lesbian relationship in 2000 after converting to Christianity,
Read this and decide. --Posted by Cori Dauber to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/5/2003 10:25:14 AMPowered by Blogger Pro
When a president's approval numbers are high, we can pretty well assume that those expressing approval like either him, his policies, or both. What does it mean when his approval numbers drop? When a president's approval numbers drop, it seems to be assumed or implied by those reporting the
Marty Lederman at SCOTUSblog reports on the call for response, and the timetable (the Washington Post was apparently mistaken when it said that "There is no deadline for Olson to file his response; the court will not decide whether to hear the case until he does."):At least one Justice has
involving an "affirmative action bake sale," this time at the University of Washington.
--Posted by David Bernstein to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/5/2003 06:20:50 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
Here's the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press amicus brief urging the Court to grant cert. Thanks to Becky Dale for the pointer.
--Posted by Eugene Volokh to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/5/2003 06:46:17 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
In another of their series "Where Things Stand," done with Time Magazine, ABC News tonight focuses on Baghdad, where, they argue, "violence and the dread of violence, color everything." To butress the claim, they want to compare violent deaths pre- and post-war, and the count is 16 versus 677.
I am just floored by the number of folks who have taken the time and effort to email me thoughts and comments and arguments since I have been a guest Conspirator. You all have truly made opening my in-box fun, and intellectually challenging -- and utterly daunting. (It does convince me that I am
Read the ever-insightful Clay Shirky on silent dating. That's right, you all show up in the same room and start passing notes to each other. It turns out you can meet many more people this way, many more than with speed dating. Plus it offers, according to Shirky, the physical proximity of a
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