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 less-complex cases. Despite this apparent ...
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 ...
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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 - 1/7/2009
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A Free Lunch? In the pre-Prohibition era, the
saloons would advertise a “free lunch” for the working...
man. The catch was the expectation that the working man would have a beer with that lunch. The beer was definitely not free. Thus the most famous ...
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DAVID BERNSTEIN: “Still waiting for Glenn Greenwald to tell us what would be a ‘proportionate’ Isra…
Instapundit —
... DAVID BERNSTEIN: “Still waiting for Glenn Greenwald to tell us what would be a ‘proportionate’ Israeli response to the launching of hundreds of missiles at its civilian population from Hamas-controlled Gaza, as opposed to what he calls Israel’s current ‘massively disproportionate response.’” An update shows that Bernstein can call spirits from the vasty deep bloggers from the vasty blogosphere — and they will come. ...
The Lefty way of war
Cold Fury —
... in terms of the “proportionality” of Israel’s response, Greenwald (and others) are obscuring their real argument, which is that Israel is not entitled to act in self-defense because no matter how many rockets are launched into Israeli territory, Israel is ultimately the aggressor in the Gaza situation. I find that argument hopelessly naive, and, in fact, counterfactual. As it most surely is — if you assume the best, that is, of someone who in no way merits such generosity. Gleen’s feeble and perfectly typical “response?” Terrorism ends when the causes of it are addressed, ...
Diplomacy and Terrorism
Chicago Boyz —
David Bernstein quotes Glenn Greenwald as saying:
Terrorism ends when the causes of it are addressed, typically via diplomatic means.
Greenwald has a point. After all we all remember how succesfully we used diplomacy to bring an end to causes of terrorism back in….
…well, I mean sometime we must have…
…nope, on second thought, diplomacy has never brought an end to terrorism.
Greenwald tires to sell the myth that terrorist represents the desperate acts of desperate people. ...
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