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If the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey By / NYT — Permalink PROFESSORS at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof. But whether the ideological imbalance matters - to the academic environment students encounter, to the kinds of lawyers the schools produce and to the stock of ideas the professors generate - depends on whom you ask. | |
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Steve Bainbridge: An oldie but a goodie: Bias against conservatives in law school hiring — The NYT reports: "[A] study, to be published... Scott @PowerLine: The deep meaning of diversity: A case study — Today's New York Times Week in Review previews the study of the political... Jonathan H. Adler: PROFESSORS ARE DONKEYS — The NYT reports on another study documenting the ideological imbalance of law school faculties. |
Jim Lindgren: Adam Liptak has a fair account of it in the New York Times: [snipped quote] Although not mentioned in the NY Times... Ann Althouse: Nearly all are, per Adam Liptak, writing in the NYT: "[A] study, to be published this fall in The Georgetown Law... Tom Maguire: The first paragraph of the Times coverage has a howler (but only lefties will howl): [snipped quote] Imagine my surprise. |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Katrina's Winds 175 MPH As New Orleans Orders Evacuation — New Orleans sounds like it's a weather horror story about to... Jim Henley: When the Levee Breaks — Adding my voice to the chorus, best wishes and brightest hopes for New Orleans. Laura Rozen: Good luck, New Orleans. |
Kevin Drum: KATRINA....Can I join every other person on the planet in recommending that if you live in New Orleans, you should get out now? Rex Hammock: New Orleans mandatory evacuation: A category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans is the worst conceivable scenario. Ann Althouse: Say a prayer for New Orleans: [quote] "This is a once in a lifetime event," the mayor said.[end quote] |
| Also: John @AmericaBlog | |
Winning in Iraq By / NYT — Permalink Andrew Krepinevich is a careful, scholarly man. A graduate of West Point and a retired lieutenant colonel, his book, "The Army and Vietnam," is a classic on how to fight counterinsurgency warfare. | |
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Brad Plumer: Purely Hypothetical — David Brooks alerts us to a new Foreign Affairs essay by Andrew Krepinevich, which argues that... Matthew Yglesias: For my money, though, David Brooks, who loves it and thinks we should implement it actually offers the definitive refutation: "Third, it means we have to think in the long term. Tom Maguire: Victory In Iraq — David Brooks did *not* write "I love the smell of victory in Iraq. It smells like... oil". But I just did! |
Justin Gardner: Even if it takes a decade to accomplish, it's a fight we need to be waging. (HT: David Brooks) Steve M.: David Brooks writes about an essay in Foreign Affairs that recommends a new strategy for fighting the Iraqi insurgency. Ed Cone: NYT oped, Right to Left — On the NYT op-ed pages, the David Brooks laments the way we are misfighting the war in Iraq: "There is no clear strategy. |
| Also: Cliff May, Cori Dauber | |
How to Win in Iraq Foreign Affairs — Permalink Summary: Because they lack a coherent strategy, U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis rather than hunting down insurgents. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: Oil Spot Strategy — Foreign Affairs has some useful suggestions for changing the focus of the U.S. effort in Iraq. Justin Gardner: Andrew Krepinevich, Jr., retired US Army lieutenant colonel, Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and... Tom Maguire: Here is the Foreign Affairs link; here is the Tom Donnelly and Gary Schmitt WaPo story, titled "The Right Fight Now". |
Kevin Drum: Andrew Krepinevich, author of The Army and Vietnam, outlines an answer in Foreign Affairs this month, and the folks at... Matthew Yglesias: Capacities, Anyone? There's a lot that could be said about Andrew Krepinevich's essay on "How to Win in Iraq." Ed Cone: He points to this article in Foreign Affairs by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and author of an important book on Vietnam. |
New Orleans orders evacuation CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city as Hurricane Katrina churned toward the city with maximum sustained winds of nearly 175 mph. | |
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Michael DeBow: And there's a possibility that exact thing could happen. Here's a little of what CNN.com has to say about that. Will Collier: Category Five — The top winds in Hurricane Katrina are up to 175 miles an hour, the third-highest hurricane wind speed ever recorded. Oliver Willis: Katrina: Good Thoughts for New Orleans — This thing looks a nightmare come to life. |
Kieran Healy: Light Relief Update: In the CNN story on this event, the mayor of New Orleans is quoted as saying [snipped quote] I'm... John Cole: Tough Times for the Big Easy Looks like New Orleans is going to get hit hard: Emergency officials along the Gulf... Dr. Steven Taylor: Evacuation of NO Ordered — Via CNN: New Orleans orders evacuation |
Mandatory Evacuation Ordered for New Orleans as Storm Nears By / NYT — Permalink Threatened with a potential catastrophe, the mayor of New Orleans ordered people in the city to evacuate today as Hurricane Katrina gained strength. President Bush has already declared an emergency for Louisiana and Mississippi, which along with other parts of the northern Gulf coast states lie in the direction of the hurricane. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Hurricane — There are probably better places to go for coverage of the apparently imminent destruction of New Orleans,... Kieran Healy: Six Feet of Water in the Streets of Evangeline The whole of New Orleans is being evacuated as Hurricane Katrina moves toward the coast. |
Susie Madrak: Devastation Approximately 1/3 of the nation's oil and natural gas moves through the port of New Orleans. Skippy: the big uneasy if you're anywhere close to new orleans, leave! |
Are you affected by Katrina? BBC — Permalink Send us your experiences of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people are leaving the low-lying Louisiana city of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches. Forecasters say the city could be in the eye of the storm when Katrina, now swirling over the Gulf of Mexico, hits. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The BBC is inviting comments from readers who have info about the storm. |
Glenn Reynolds: causewaycam_320x240.jpg — THE BBC is running reader reports on Katrina. More blogging here and here. |
Rev. Jackson Lends Support to Chavez By / AP — Permalink CARACAS, Venezuela - The Rev. Jesse Jackson offered support for President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, saying a call for his assassination by a U.S. religious broadcaster was a criminal act and that Washington and Venezuela should work out their differences through diplomacy. | |
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Gateway Pundit: (AP) The AP tells a whopper in propping up the Marxist Chavez: In a speech to Venezuela's National Assembly, Jackson... Jonah Goldberg: HIGHLARIOUS — Jackson heads to Venezuela to suck-up to Chavez. I guess he really is the leftwing Robertson. |
Jayson @PoliPundit: From Parody to Farce — Jessie Jackson and the Associated de-Press-ed. What's next? |
Storm aims for heart of U.S. oil industry By / al.com — Permalink Oil traders closed business on Friday confident that Hurricane Katrina would hit too far to the east to affect the price of oil and natural gas. That was before the National Hurricane Center shifted the storm's possible path to a more westerly track that... | |
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Michael DeBow: Here's a view of the economic impact a direct impact on those facilities would have. |
Chris Bowers: This is a big deal because Katrina could cripple the national oil industry: "If Hurricane Katrina holds true to... |
Officials: Suicide bomber injures 21 in Israel CNN — Permalink JERUSALEM (CNN) — Twenty-one people were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in a suicide bombing at a central bus station in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Israeli officials said. The bombing occurred about 8:30 a.m. outside a bus during the morning rush hour when a man detonated himself. | |
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Captain Ed: A Palestinian bomber wounded 21 Israeli civilians in Beersheba, near Gaza, in a suicide-bomb attack on a bus this... Jay Tea: In the town of Beersheba, we have seen the first signs of moderation from the terrorists: a suicide bomber at a bus station only killed himself, while wounding 21 others. Roger L. Simon: Not more than a metaphorical ten minutes after the Israelis yanked their citizens out of Gaza, one of his is once again behaving like a certifiable homicidal maniac. |
John Cole: The Reward For the Gaza Pull-Out Was a suicide bombing: Twenty-one people were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in a... Forkum: From CNN: Officials: Suicide bomber injures 21 in Israel. |
An End to Polarization? By / US News — Permalink For 10 years American politics has been sharply polarized, with just about equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats arrayed angrily against one another. We have come to think of this as a permanent condition. Yet by the next presidential election that may very well change. | |
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Paul @PowerLine: An end to polarization? The great Michael Barone wonders whether we are nearing the end of polarization in our politics. Glenn Reynolds: MICHAEL BARONE thinks that the age of polarization is coming to an end, and cites, among other things, the strong support for Giuliani in Patrick Ruffini's straw poll. |
Betsy Newmark: Michael Barone, always an interesting observer of political trends thinks that there is a possiblity that 2008 won't be as polarizing an election as the previous few elections. |
Church: God Punishing GIs Over Gays By / AP — Permalink SMYRNA, Tenn. - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. The church members were met with scorn from local residents. | |
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Mary Madigan: Example number 1,236,457 of bias in the press.. by Mary Madigan Via AP "Anti-gay protests at GI funerals SMYRNA,... Julie Saltman: Hating America — These religious conservatives in particular aren't even being coy about it. [snipped quote] Utterly heinous. |
Champollion: Just so the King knows, some of his fellow travellers have figured out the cause of all the turmoil and what is getting... |
In California Enclave, Cougars Keep the People at Bay By / NYT — Permalink ATHERTON, Calif. - You would think that if you plunked down $10 million for a home, including millions to buy three adjoining properties, you could count on a little freedom to roam. | |
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Tom Smith: Rich people get pussy cat fever — I think the overall message is, we will live forever because of nanotechnology, but only if the lions don't eat us first. Ann Althouse: Afraid to go out in your own $10 million yard? Well, what do you expect? You moved into the ecotone. |
Glenn Reynolds: At least if someone can do something about the mountain lions. That's been a problem before. |
New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city as potentially catastrophic Hurricane Katrina churned toward the city with maximum sustained winds near 175 mph. | |
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Karl-Thomas Musselman: It Comes... Go Now — If you are anyone you know is near New Orleans or the coast where Hurrican Katrina (now Category... Susie Madrak: Pray For New Orleans. Wind gusts recorded at 200 mph. UPDATE: Bubble Boy will address the nation about the hurricane Iraqi constitution at 12:30 p.m. EST. |
Charles Kuffner: Katrina — I don't really have much to say about Hurricane Katrina that hasn't been said elsewhere, so let me join in... |
Show Me the Science By / NYT — Permalink Blue Hill, Me. PRESIDENT BUSH, announcing this month that he was in favor of teaching about "intelligent design" in the schools, said, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." | |
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Jan Haugland: Intelligent Design is a hoax — Daniel Dennet is definitely one of the clearest thinkers and writers out there, and you... Ed Cone: ID an "ingenious hoax"? Daniel Dennett in the NYT: "Is 'intelligent design' a legitimate school of scientific thought? |
Ezra Klein: And, via PZ, Daniel Dennett on the mechanism that makes this all possible: "the proponents of intelligent design use a ploy that works something like this. |
American Nazi Idol By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink LAST NIGHT THERE WERE 1,500 CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR CINDY SHEEHAN AND ONE BURNING CROSS. Sheehan has become the poster girl for the antiwar Left, because her status as a grieving mother renders the 48-year-old Vacaville, California, native more sympathetic than Medea Benjamin, Ramsey Clark, or Michael Moore (whose website hosts Sheehan's blog). | |
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Judd @ThinkProgress: Goldberg includes a link to an article on David Horowitz's website which notes "Cindy Sheehan's newfound, seemingly mutual love for anti-Semitic, racist, and neo-Nazi extremists." |
Jonah Goldberg: "See Ben Johnson's article. I predict that the poor woman will be soon dropped and forgotten by the mainstream..." |
Rove's role Boston Globe — Permalink SOME WHITE House sympathizers have attempted to portray Karl Rove's role in the Valerie Plame scandal as that of a statesman, seeking to provide President Bush with the best information possible on Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions so that Bush could set policy based on facts. | |
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Avedon Carol: Pamela Leavey at The Democratic Daily says Treasongate should be back on the front pages shortly. Jeralyn Merritt: Boston Globe Trashes Karl Rove — What an editorial! "Rove's record has been consistent. |
Joe @AmericaBlog: Boston Globe Smacks Rove HARD — I don't know what got the Boston Globe editorial page stirred up (besides the obvious)... |
Bronson: I can't get past the media force field By / Cincinnati Enquirer — Permalink Superman is invulnerable. Star Trek's Enterprise has invisible shields that stop photon torpedoes. Invisible Woman has a bulletproof force field. But those things only exist in comic books, science fiction - and the mainstream media, where you can only tell if it's there by the things that bounce off. | |
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TheAnchoress: The Media Force Fieldâ Impenetrable. And it seems to thicken every day…and in every way. |
Betsy Newmark: Peter Bronson posits that there is a media forcefield and certain subjects just don't get through. He's right. |
A Conversation With the Standards Editor By / NYT — Permalink THE standards editor of The New York Times, ensconced in the midst of the newsroom, plays a crucial role in the daily process of publishing the paper. His responsibility is to maintain and police the paper's journalistic ethics, accuracy, fairness and accountability in the face of pressures ranging from deadlines to demands to hold down costs. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: Followup question, please In today's Times, public editor Byron Calame interviews standards editor Allan Siegal and... Cori Dauber: This morning the Times' Public Editor uses his column to publish snippets of a conversation he had with the Standard's... |
Tom Maguire: Hearing Footsteps — Byron Calame, the Public Editor of the NY Times, chats with the standards editor of the Times... |
Iraq Negotiators Sign Draft Constitution WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 — Shiite Muslim and Kurdish negotiators formally signed Iraq's new draft constitution Sunday, moving it toward a national vote over the strong objections of some Sunni Arabs in the talks, who rejected a final draft. | |
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Billmon: The Philadelphia Experiment — The Iraqi constitutional "process" (now careening towards a bitter and divisive... |
Steve Soto: Cole Predicts The Months Ahead In Iraq — Before I head out the door today, and with the Shiites and Kurds giving up... |
A guide to dating Jews earns author 'Nazi' tag Observer — Permalink Kristina Grish has been described as a 'Nazi' and little better than a prostitute. Her crime: writing a light-hearted, non-Jewish women's guide to understanding Jewish men. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: From a rather odd and quite depressing story in The Observer today comes a turn of phrase that makes me go: urggh. Susie Madrak: Meshuginah As a shiska who married a Jew, all I can say is, "Oy vey." |
Judith Weiss: Apropos of a review of the pop culture book Jewish women love to hate, a comment from Harry's place puts the opportunistic Ms Grish in her place |
The Vietnamization of Bush's Vacation By / NYT — Permalink ANOTHER week in Iraq, another light at the end of the tunnel. On Monday President Bush saluted the Iraqis for "completing work on a democratic constitution" even as the process was breaking down yet again. But was anyone even listening to his latest premature celebration? | |
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Jo Fish: It's over the wall. Frank Rich broke his bat on this one. [snipped quote] The September Conflation Event is almost upon us. Barbara O'Brien: On the Left is Frank Rich, who writes in today's New York Times: "Ms. Sheehan's protest was the catalyst for a new... Joe Gandelman: You can see how all of this plays out and the strong imagery Ms. Sheehan has consolidated in Frank Rich's column "The... |
Oliver Willis: Democrats Abandoning Their Patriotism — As a proud Democrat it hurts to say, but Frank Rich's conclusion is right. Ed Cone: Meanwhile, on the opposite page, Frank Rich makes a point I tried to make last week: "It's Casey Sheehan's mother, not... John Cole: When you are Frank Rich, everything is a quagmire: ANOTHER week in Iraq, another light at the end of the tunnel. |
| Also: Steve M., Attaturk, Jeralyn Merritt | |
Andrew Sullivan: Iraq still offers a tantalising prospect of success Times of London — Permalink You cannot blame President George W Bush for wanting a lengthy holiday. The autumn that awaits him is a grim, if predictable, one. As I write it is unclear if a workable Iraqi constitution can be agreed upon by the continuously delayed deadline; it is... | |
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Jan Haugland: Success within reach in Iraq Andrew Sullivan appears to have regained some of his confidence in success in Iraq. Juan Cole: Andrew Sullivan, who does not have Luke Baker's experience on the ground in Iraq, bizarrely believes that the... |
Tom Maguire: For purposes of Republican election planning, Andrew is long gone, Gregory is looking sour - c'mon Karl, it's time for... Norm Geras: Andrew Sullivan also assesses the current prospects: "In reality, of course, what matters is what will remain on the ground in Mesopotamia in the next few years. |
Iraq's Sunnis reject constitution BBC — Permalink Iraq's Sunni leaders have rejected the Iraqi draft constitution and called for intervention by the UN and Arab league. The joint declaration by the team of negotiators representing Iraq's Sunni minority came as a final version of the document was presented to parliament. | |
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Jan Haugland: The draft constitution has now been presented to parliament, but as many feared the Sunni Arab negotiatiors have refused to back it. |
Dr. Steven Taylor: Meanwhile, according to the BBC: "Nonetheless the Sunni representatives vowed to not entirely disengage from the... |
Hurricane Katrina Threatens New Orleans AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin (search) ordered an immediate mandatory evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans (search), a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina (search) bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge. | |
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Damian Penny: Escape from New Orleans — The entire city is being evacuated as Hurricane Katrina approaches. |
Michelle Malkin: Update: Bumped due to inclement weather. Heading off to do school shopping and mommy stuff. Meantime, read this. |
Roberts v. the Future By / NYT — Permalink I. The Future Is Not the Present Three years ago, in a small conference room at the offices of the law firm Hogan & Hartson in Washington, I had the chance to talk with John G. Roberts Jr. At the time, Roberts was a lawyer in private practice, unsure whether Senate Democrats would hold a hearing on his nomination to be a federal appellate judge. | |
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TChris: Constitutional Law for the 21st Century — In today's NY Times Magazine, Jeffrey Rosen argues that John Roberts (who... |
John Cole: Looking Forward on Judge Roberts Jeffrey Rosen has the the premium space at the NYT Magazine this week, and he has... |
In War's Chaos, Iraq Finds Inspiration for Reality TV By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq - Amal Ramzi Ismail had been up since dawn glancing out the window of her neighbor's house at the wreckage of her own home, destroyed when American soldiers blew up a munitions cache nearby. | |
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TChris: The invasion of Iraq has nonetheless given Iraq's TV stations an opportunity to develop their own reality TV series. |
Chris Bertram: Reality TV, Iraqi style The NYT has a great story on how Western-style reality tv is spreading to Iraq . |
Anti-Gay Church Protests at GI Funerals By / AP — Permalink SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. | |
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Ace: "AP Reports On Fred Phelps' Protesting of GI's Funerals; Seems Silent on Code Pink's Protest Outside Walter Reed Army... Damian Penny: Beyond disgusting — The "Reverend" Fred Phelps and his family continue to travel all over America picketing the... |
Marc @USSNeverdock: And the left have a stand in for them to protest at military funerals - Fred Phelps. |
Iraq Parliament Obtains Draft Constitution AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament convened Sunday to receive the country's draft constitution after its authors signed off on it, but Sunni members of that committee said they had rejected the final draft despite U.S. mediation efforts. | |
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Betsy Newmark: And in the final draft, the other groups even gave some ground on the former Baathists. The Sunnis are still holding out. |
Ace: Sunnis Reject Draft Constitution — Eh. Give them the desert and let them literally pound sand. |
Hunt perv caught in a flash By / NY Daily News — Permalink When a pervert exposed himself on a Manhattan subway last week, Thao Nguyen reached for her secret weapon - her camera phone. The quick-thinking 22-year-old snapped a shot of the smirking sicko, took it to cops and then posted it on the Internet. | |
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Ace: And it seems that all these cameras are going to put a serious dent into street crime, too. |
Ogged @Unfogged: Woman pulls out her cell phone, snaps priceless picture (even safe for work), and posts it on the net. Ha! |
Dueling demonstrators descend on Texas By / AP — Permalink CRAWFORD, Texas — Several thousand people descended on President Bush's adopted hometown Saturday, attending a rally supporting him or arriving for the last leg of an anti-war demonstration near his ranch. | |
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Brian Maloney: From the AP: CRAWFORD, Texas — Several thousand people descended on President Bush's adopted hometown Saturday, most in... Marc @USSNeverdock: America - AP Lying for Sheehan — Angela Brown, a reporter for the AP, continues to lie for anti-war protester, Cindy Sheehan. |
John @PowerLine: The Associated Press has an account (via Power Line News) that mentions the Protest Warriors, whose encounter with the... |
A War to Be Proud Of By / Weekly Standard — Permalink LET ME BEGIN WITH A simple sentence that, even as I write it, appears less than Swiftian in the modesty of its proposal: "Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib have improved markedly and dramatically since the arrival of Coalition troops in Baghdad." | |
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Paul @PowerLine: A positive accounting — Christopher Hitchens delivers a brilliant essay in the Daily Standard called "A War to Be Proud Of." Barbara O'Brien: On the Right is Christopher Hitchens, who has written a hallucinogenic little piece for the Weekly Standard called "A War to Be Proud Of." Donald Sensing: Hitchens nails it — Whatever else you might do today, do not fail to read this long and brilliant essay by Christopher Hitchens, "A War to Be Proud Of." |
Jan Haugland: Christopher Hitchens is certainly not unapologetic about supporting the Iraq war, as he writes in A war to be proud of. Ann Althouse: Now, the article is available. An excerpt: [snipped quote] Read the article. I would love to have heard what Hitchens said about Jon Stewart after that interview. Ace: But I think Chris Hitchens, in an article worth reading for other reasons (including a long list of reasons to be proud... |
| Also: Harry @HarrysPlace, Roger L. Simon, TheAnchoress, Marc @USSNeverdock, Norm Geras, Ed Driscoll, Jason Van Steenwyk | |
Kopel: Sheehan's radical views little noted Rocky Mountain News — Permalink Cindy Sheehan claims the media are "a propaganda tool for the government." A New York Post editorial (Aug. 16) argued that Sheehan's statement was self-evidently false, given the overwhelming and almost exclusively positive media attention paid to her in the last several weeks. | |
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Andrew Olmsted: Dave Kopel points out that the media are not reporting Cindy Sheehan's complete message. Jay Tea: (Tip of the hat to Dave Kopel, whose Volokh Conspiracy citation of his column for the Rocky Mountain News inspired this piece. TheAnchoress: And yes, it's being noticed… but not by the folks who maybe should sit up and take notice that the values they... |
Barbara O'Brien: Indeed, every time a rightie makes an issue of Cindy Sheehan instead of just answering her question—why are we at war in Iraq?—it proves Sheehan's point. Joe Gandelman: However, in a piece in the Rocky Mountain News, Dave Kopel argues that the press has not reported enough because he... David Schraub: It seems to me that the media is rationally responding to a series of major missteps by the Bush admin: on social... |
| Also: Ed Driscoll, Glenn Reynolds, Pejman Yousefzadeh, David Kopel, Christopher Kanis | |
Christian Schools Bring Suit Against UC By / LAT — Permalink Amid the growing national debate over the mixing of religion and science in America's classrooms, University of California admissions officials have been accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints. | |
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Magpie @PacificViews: The LA Times reports on a lawsuit against the University of California, which wants the court to order UC to give... Steve Bainbridge: (Link) American Indian, African American and Latino admissions to the UC system have gone from 18.6% of total admissions... Jesse Taylor: The University of California system is rejecting students who are unprepared for college. Somehow, this is controversial. |
Avedon Carol: More for the "Why more professors are liberal" category: The LAT reports that creationist fruitcakes are suing the... Mark Kleiman: UC officials have decided that a course labeled "biology" using an anti-Darwinian textbook published by Bob Jones University doesn't qualify. Gary Farber: Yes, you guessed it, it's Them again. But this one is even funnier than "they think the Flintstones is a documentary." |
| Also: TChris | |
MILITARY 'SPIED' ON RICE By / New York Post — Permalink August 27, 2005 — WASHINGTON — Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security... | |
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John Podhoretz: That's according to my paper, the New York Post: "Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly... John @PowerLine: I was struck, though, by the revelation in this morning's New York Post that the termination of the Able Danger project was related to its turning up information from China. Kevin Drum: These sources tell the New York Post that contractor J.D. Smith, the man who supposedly ID'd Mohamed Atta for the Able... |
Barbara O'Brien: Update: Today's New York Post says one part of the Able Danger project was terminated in 2000 because Able Danger had identified Condi Rice as a security risk. Captain Ed: The third source, however, has even more information about the Army's datamining in today's New York Post reagrding... Steve Antler: It now appears Able Danger came up with a tower that might have had some silly aspects. |
| Also: Laura Rozen, Roger Ailes | |
THE BIG ONE New Orleans Times-Picayune — Permalink The line of splintered planks, trash and seaweed scattered along the slope of New Orleans' lakefront levees on Hayne Boulevard in late September 1998 marked more than just the wake of Hurricane Georges. It measured the slender margin separating the city from mass destruction. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: Here is the disaster scenario, put forward in a scary Times-Picayune series about The Big One: …emergency... Paul @Wizbang: I was forced by both curiosity and habit to provide a link the study. [or a media report on it] My memory was being kind to me. |
Jeff Quinton: His post links to this article (be sure to click through to read it all) on a study undertaken in recent years. |
Nearly 1,000 Abu Ghraib detainees released CNN — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Nearly 1,000 detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released this week at the request of the Iraqi government, Multi-National Forces said Saturday. | |
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Captain Ed: Releasing Terrorists From Abu Ghraib, Killing Their Travel Agent — CNN reports that the Coalition appears quite proud... Marc @USSNeverdock: Iraq - Terrorist Master Mind Killed — For some reason CNN lumped this story in with one about a prisoner release. |
John Cole: Release from Abu Ghraib Apparently, at the request of the Iraqi government, we let hundreds of prisoners go: Nearly... |
U.S. Again Delays Decision on Sale of Next-Day Pill By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 - Federal drug regulators on Friday once again delayed making a decision on allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, saying they needed more time to gather public reaction to the plan and to figure out how they could enforce it. | |
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Mark Kleiman: We no longer have to wait for Justice Roberts's vote to overturn Roe v. Wade to know whether electing George W. Bush... Talking Dog: In a politics before science or health everytime move, and in a surprise to exactly no one (except seemingly Senators... |
John Cole: Morning After Pill The debate continues in earnest at the FDA: Federal drug regulators on Friday once again delayed... |
Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy By / NYT — Permalink W. has jumped the couch. Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked on that pretzel. According to UrbanDictionary.com, "jump the couch" has now become slang for "a defining moment when you know someone has gone off the deep end. | |
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MB Williams: So I was a bit surprised at this commentary inserted in MoDo's OpEd piece this week: [snipped quote] Dowd has been highly... Pudentilla: modo wins saturday am one-liner award "iraq, it turns out, is the one branch of american government that the republicans don't control." |
Randy Paul: In today's New York Times, Maureen Dowd referenced the Hart op-ed: "Gary Hart began his Washington Post op-ed piece... Joe @AmericaBlog: Dowd: Bush has "jumped the couch" — Brilliant: "W. has jumped the couch. Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked on that pretzel. |
The War's Momentum WaPo — Permalink THE LONGER Iraqi political leaders struggled this week to reach a compromise on a draft constitution, the worse the violence around the country seemed to grow. That was grimly logical: Not only are Islamic extremists such as Abu Musab Zarqawi dedicated to... | |
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Armando @DailyKos: Today's editorial still has flaws, particularly on granting procedural milestones more worth than they merit, but... |
John @AmericaBlog: Oops — Washington Post editorial [snipped quote] Hat tip to DailyKos |
An Outsider's Quick Rise To Bush Terror Adviser WaPo — Permalink Frances Fragos Townsend wanted an answer. The government's senior terrorism officials were poring through intelligence reports last summer suggesting that New York's financial district was being targeted by al Qaeda. | |
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Gary Farber: Anyway, it now turns out that President Bush's chief counter-terrorism advisor and homeland security (how quickly we've... Cori Dauber: Instead they write lines like this: Her two predecessors were four-star generals who brought decades of experience to the fight. |
Mark Kilmer: WashPost Profile: Frances Townsend — In profiling the White House's Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend, the... Pudentilla: oh when the saints come marching in fran townsend, awol's terror advisor, provides the basis for wapo's most recent... |
In War Debate, Parents of Fallen Are United Only in Grief By / NYT — Permalink David Clemons seethes when he sees Cindy Sheehan on television, standing among small white crosses in an antiwar encampment named for her dead son. To Mr. Clemons, her protest is a crushing insult to his own son, who was also killed while fighting in Iraq. | |
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John Cole: Dueling Parents As I predicted, this sad 'circus' is about to get a whole lot uglier: David Clemons seethes when he... |
Cori Dauber: The Times Has A Revelation — Not all parents of the fallen agree with Mrs. Sheehan. |
Tiny Crawford Braces for Dueling Protests By / AP — Permalink CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — This one-stoplight town of 700 residents near President Bush's ranch braced for thousands of visitors Saturday, most in a cross-country caravan for a pro-Bush rally and others to support Cindy Sheehan's anti-war demonstration. | |
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Skippy: crawford update blog has this pic of the crowd over-filling the tent at camp casey: Example scott galindez at truthout... Pudentilla: we will win — [snipped quote] perhaps we will "win", but not while these bozos are running the show. |
McQ: Drop by Crawford, TX: [snipped quote] Here's an interesting audio clip from someone purported to be in Sheehan's camp as a "spy" (HT to McQ2). |
Assailing Draft, Sunnis Still Seek Charter Changes By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 27 - Sunni Arab political leaders condemned a draft of Iraq's proposed constitution handed to them on Saturday, saying it was unlikely that they would approve the document and that it could provoke even more violence. | |
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Ezra Klein: Well, glad you asked... [snipped quote] The italics, of course, are mine. |
Josh Marshall: Pravda on the Hudson — From: Media Did the mainstream media fool you into thinking that yesterday wasn't a great day in the history of Iraqi constitution writing? |
Marijuana Pipe Dreams By / NYT — Permalink When the Supreme Court ruled in June that states could not legalize marijuana for medical uses, Justice Stephen Breyer voted with the majority. But during oral arguments, he suggested an alternative way for patients to get it: let the federal Food and Drug Administration decide if marijuana should be a prescription drug. | |
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John Cole: Tierney on Marijuana If he keeps this up, the Drug Warriors are going to have John Tierney's head on a most wanted... Radley Balko: Tierney. Again. Today, John Tierney takes on the federal government's absurd policy on medical marijuana. |
Ann Althouse: John Tierney blasts the Drug Enforcement Administration for standing in the way of research into the medicinal uses of marijuana. |
Academic Propaganda By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink Several months ago, as part of an investigation into allegations of anti-Israel indoctrination, I completed a course called "Politics of the Middle East" 155B at Diablo Valley College in northern California. | |
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TheAnchoress: Read the whole thing. |
Betsy Newmark: Lee Kaplan has a report of an eye-opening meeting with school administrators who are totally uninterested in stopping a professor from teaching PLO-inspired propaganda and lies. |
Talk radio shows' reception seems to be getting weaker By / LAT — Permalink Talk is cheap — unless it's political talk on the radio, and then it's influential. At least it has been. Now some people think the talk bubble has, if not burst, begun to lose its wind. | |
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Patterico: Rutten's Talk Radio Column Is Up Here is Tim Rutten's column about talk radio, including his interview with Hugh Hewitt. Kevin Roderick: Rutten's take on talk radio — Tim Rutten's Saturday column in the LAT, nominally about the declining audience for... |
Hugh Hewitt: Tim Rutten and Edward John Smith — The Los Angeles Time's Tim Rutten has his column up on the state of talk radio. |
Blog brings the war home AP — Permalink Army Lt. Col. Michael Erik Kurilla had just been shot three times and his thigh bone had snapped. He kept firing — and shouting orders at the soldiers behind him. Kurilla, 39, formerly of Minneapolis, was wounded in a firefight in an alley in Mosul, Iraq, on Aug. 19. | |
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Bruce Sanborn: The Minneapolis Star Tribune (the Strib) picked up on Yon's account yesterday (after reading Powerline, I believe) and... Scott @PowerLine: Col. Kurilla: The local angle — The Minneapolis Star Tribune picks up on Michael Yon's account of the Mosul firefight... |
Saint Paul l: Their twin Washington Bureau Correspondents provide the article "Blog Brings the War Home." |
Sunnis defiant as talks on 'new Iraq' collapse By / Telegraph — Permalink Tortuous negotiations to decide the constitution of the new Iraq collapsed early today with the government admitting that they had reached "the end of the road". Saleh al-Mutlaq, a leading Sunni negotiator, said no agreement was reached on the draft text and called on Iraqis to reject it in a referendum in October. | |
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John Cole: Talks Break Down It looks like they have finally thrown in the towel: Tortuous negotiations to decide the... Juan Cole: The Telegraph's Oliver Poole reports from Baghdad that Sunni negotiator Salih Mutlak said, [snipped quote] He called on Iraqis to reject the constitution at the polls. |
Perry de Havilland: The fact that the leaders of the Sunni minority oppose a federal structure for Iraq, and have the ability to torpedo the... |
Shiites and Kurds Halt Charter Talks With Sunnis NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 27 - Shiite and Kurdish leaders drafting a new Iraqi constitution abandoned negotiations with a group of Sunni representatives on Friday, deciding to take the disputed charter directly to the Iraqi people. | |
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Juan Cole: Dexter Filkins and James Glanz of the NYT reported that at the close of business, Iraq time, on Friday, the Shiites... Joe @AmericaBlog: S**tes, Kurds reject Sunnis (and Bush) So the Constitutional process is falling apart. Billmon: [quote]New York Times Shiites and Kurds Halt Charter Talks With Sunnis August 27, 2005 "The constitution is not only a disaster...[end quote] |
James Joyner: Shiites and Kurds Halt Charter Talks With Sunnis (NYT) [snipped quote] I'm obviously not privy to the details of the... Richard TPD: As I Was Saying... By Other Lisa... From today's New York Times: [snipped quote] If I were an Iraqi woman with no means... |
Chafee to be challenged from the Right in GOP primary By / Human Events — Permalink We report in this week's Evans-Novak Political Report (sorry, no link, we're too expensive) that Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey (R.) will jump into the U.S. Senate primary against Lincoln Chafee (R.) next month — the date will probably be September 15. | |
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Scott Shields: Chafee Gets a GOP Challenger 9/15/05 From the Evans-Novak Political Report by way of Human Events Online via Mike Liddell at From the Roots (whew!!!) |
Jonathan Singer: David Freddoso has the scoop for Human Events online, a conservative weekly. |
Bent Out of Shape By / American Spectator — Permalink There have been a great number of petty and unfair attacks leveled at George W. Bush in the past five years. He's slow witted. He surrounds himself with incompetent "yes men." He's Hitler. But the pettiest and least fair to date is the charge that President Bush exercises too much. | |
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TheAnchoress: Then come back and read a much less angry piece that is still demanding honesty: Patrick Hynes in the American Spectator. |
Lorie Byrd: Photo Flashback — Don't miss the montage Kitty put together of Kerry sports photos to accompany a link to Pat Hyne's latest in the American Spectator. |
Women 'eye property in divorce' BBC — Permalink Women feel more vindictive than men when dividing possessions in a divorce, according to research. Men on average wanted their ex to keep 19 items from a list of 24 including the home, photographs and pets, while women wanted the men to get just eight. | |
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Jan Haugland: Poll: Women more vindicative in divorce — In divorces, women are more greedy than men, a poll finds. |
Steve Bainbridge: The Beeb and Gender — According to a couple of articles on the BBC's website, men are smarter than women, while women are more vindictive than men in divorce. |
National Briefing NYT — Permalink TEXAS: SOLDIER SENTENCED IN DETAINEE DEATH A military intelligence interrogator was sentenced to two months in prison after admitting that he abused an Afghan detainee who later died. The interrogator, Specialist Glendale C. Walls, pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and assault. | |
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Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: Boland, who has left the Army, was initially charged with chaining Dilawar's hands above his head and other abuse... |
Michael @AmericaBlog: Still, no coverup here. Really? The Pentagon is now investigating that investigation. Don't you hate it when facts keep coming out? |