volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Using Eminent Domain to Acquire Land for the Flight 93 Memorial: Various readers have asked for my views on the federal government's possible plan to use eminent domain to acquire land for a memorial commemorating the heroes of Flight 93 , the plane hijacked on 9/11 that was retaken by the ...
volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Educated Judges are Better Judges: Josh Wright and
his co-authors find that federal judges are less likely...
to have their decisions in antitrust cases appealed if they have received training at the George Mason Law and Economics seminars, at least in ...
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volokh.com - 1/3/2009
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Nice Guys Finish ... First? I was happily
surprised to see that Michael Bennet has been tapped...
to replace Ken Salazar as a Senator from Colorado. I knew Michael from law school and working in DC thereafter, and he always struck me as very smart, able, ...
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volokh.com - 12/26/2008
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Happy Hanukkah From Israel!: The letters on the
dreidels spell "Happy Hanukkah" in Hebrew. Natalie is spinning...
a giant dreidel, and modeling a menorah hat. Sufganiot (Hanukkah donuts) are in the backdrop on the right.
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Israel, Gaza and "proportionality"
Daimnation! —
Thoughts from David Bernstein and Rick Moran.
Damian P.
The Evil and the Foolish
The Moderate Voice —
Though my own posts haven’t been bad, I think the folks over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money have probably the best package of coverage regarding Israel’s latest operation in Gaza. One of the things I think they’ve done effectively is avoid some of the easy traps that obscure efforts to actually evaluate what Israel’s doing.
Trap #1, emanating from the left, is the “disproportionality” argument. In international law, disproportionality is a term of art: It does not instill an obligation to match your foe only rocket for rocket. Proportionality is not measured against the precipitating action of ...
The Lefty way of war
Cold Fury —
... my sole source of comfort. It is the Israeli army’s preferred method of identifying incoming rockets. It triggers an alarm which gives residents a few seconds to find shelter. I cannot shake the feeling that at any moment a rocket will fall from the sky and strike me directly. I note the location of every bomb shelter along the way in case I must make a mad dash to safety. This feeling of unremitting and ubiquitous terror is the norm in a community of 20,000 residents. And here’s a response from David Bernstein to yet another risible call for a “proportionate” response from ...
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