volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Academics and the Obama Administration: The Washington Post has a front-page article indicating that several Yale Law faculty members are among the many academics who think a job in the Obama Administration might be worth seeking: Yale law professor Dan Kahan said several of his colleagues are ...
volokh.powerblogs.com - 12/10/2008
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Most people have misunderstood the timeline of the
Blagojevich Senate scandal. Pretty much everything fits except Barack
Obama's statement yesterday that he knew nothing about it. If we didn't have Obama's denial to contend with, the actions of all ...
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volokh.com - 12/2/2008
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A Little Short on Specifics, No? The New
York Times editorializes in favor of "sound gun-control laws."
Which ones? "Reasonable gun-control laws," which can now be enacted following the "gun lobby"'s defeat in November. (No word on the success of the ...
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volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Subsidies Versus Conservation: The Washington Post reports on
what we've known for a while: the combination of
agriculture subsidies, ethanol subsidies, and high ag prices are causing widespread loss of important migratory waterfowl habitat. Fighting ...
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ERIC POSNER: Was Bill Ayers a terrorist? Pretty much. “Under current law, Ayers was a terrorist. …
Instapundit —
... ERIC POSNER: Was Bill Ayers a terrorist? Pretty much. “Under current law, Ayers was a terrorist. This definition is not idiosyncratic; similar definitions can be found in the laws of foreign countries and in international treaties. Ayers seems to think he ought to be excused for violence because his motives were good, but that is the excuse that terrorists always offer.” ...
Revisionist Bill Ayers: I Was Just A “Virtuous Protestor”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... I knew him as well as thousands of others did, and like millions of others, I wish I knew him better.
Demonization, guilt by association, and the politics of fear did not triumph, not this time. Let’s hope they never will again. And let’s hope we might now assert that in our wildly diverse society, talking and listening to the widest range of people is not a sin, but a virtue.
Sociopaths are an ugly breed … Don’t ya think?
The Volokh Conspiracy Legal Blog would like to point this out to Mr. Bill Ayers (and his WU ...
A Kinda Just Parent [Dan Collins]
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... , Eric Posner on Bill “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird” Ayers: ERIC POSNER: Was Bill Ayers a terrorist? Pretty much . “Under current law, Ayers was a terrorist. This definition is not idiosyncratic; similar definitions can be found in the laws of foreign countries and in international treaties. Ayers seems to think he ought to be excused for violence because his motives were good, but that is the excuse that terrorists always offer.” Posted by Dan Collins @ ...
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