(Todd Zywicki)
Like David, I read the New Yorker piece. It seemed like tendentious conspiracy-mongering to me (ironic in light of Mayer’s interest in Fred Koch’s link to the John Birch Society). Short on important facts and long on characterization and innuendo. Others have dissected in some detail, that’s not my object here.
I’ve met Charles and [...]
(Eugene Volokh)
Not a Red Bull, not a red heifer, but a red cow: What does it refer to, as a legal term?
(Jonathan H. Adler)
This morning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the petition for rehearing en banc in Al-Bihani v. Obama — only it did so with a two-page order and 111 additional pages of “statements” respecting the denial. The vote was unanimous, but there appears to be a fair amount of [...]
(Jonathan H. Adler)
I’ve been a devoted Firefox user for many years, but it may be a time for a change. I had always found Firefox to provide a relatively stable and bug-free browser. No longer. With the latest updates (v3.6.8), my Firefox crashes and freezes-up all the time. This may have something to do with [...]
(Jonathan H. Adler)
Yesterday the Inter-Academy Council, a consortium of the world’s leading national academies of science, issued a report highly critical of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Full report here.) The report does not challenge the IPCC’s central findings about the science of climate change, but strongly criticizes the IPCC’s procedures and [...]
(Jonathan H. Adler)
The Guardian reports on an “apparent U-turn” by Bjorn Lomborg, the “skeptical environmentalist,” on the issue of global climate change. (See also here.) The stories report that Lomborg has a new book, due out this fall, in which he calls global warming “one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and urges [...]
(Orin Kerr)
A few federal court opinions have been making a big public splash recently by taking surprising positions on how the Fourth Amendment applies to location surveillance. The latest opinion in the line is Magistrate Judge James Orenstein’s decision in In The Matter Of An Application Of The United States Of America And [...]
(Ilya Somin)
The ongoing debate over the “Ground Zero Mosque” has generated lots of commentary. But I fear that much of it conflates three separate issues: whether the government should use its power to block the construction of the mosque, whether the construction of any Islamic facility near Ground Zero is objectionable, and whether this particular [...]
(Orin Kerr)
It’s been ages since I blogged a link to a jazz video on YouTube. I did it for a while, but I stopped when it began to feel more like work than just a fun thing to share. In any event, here’s a video I’ve enjoyed enough that I thought it was worth [...]
(Orin Kerr)
Back in September 2004, about 18 months into the war in Iraq, I posed three questions for the pro-war blogosphere:
First, assuming that you were in favor of the invasion of Iraq at the time of the invasion, do you believe today that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea? Why/why not?
Second, what reaction [...]