volokh.com - 1/13/2009
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Praise for the New York Times: Over my years of blogging, I've been highly critical of the N.Y. Times's coverage of a variety matters, not least its coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War (e.g.) . I think it's therefore only sporting to acknowledge that I think the Times has been much better this ...
volokh.com - 1/19/2009
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Newspaper coverage of Obama vs. Previous Inaugurals My
media column in today's Rocky Mountain News compared how...
much coverage the News and the Denver Post provided in the pre-inaugural week for the most recent inauguration, versus Clinton in 1993 and ...
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volokh.com - 1/10/2009
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More on Ricci v. DeStefano: Ed Whelan chronicles
the apparent machinations by the trial court and Second...
Circuit to keep Ricci v. DeStefano below the radar (hat tip Powerline ): As I’ve previously detailed (and will in large part repeat here), the ...
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volokh.com - 1/16/2009
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Some Comments on the FISA Court of Review
Decision: I was on a plane most of the...
day, delaying my promised blogging on the new FISA Court of Review case on foreign intelligence surveillance. Here are a few thoughts after reading the opinion. 1. First, ...
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Radical Gays Post Maps Online of Prop 8 Donor's Homes
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... The Volokh Conspiracy reported that the radical gay activists in California have posted maps online on where you can find the Prop 8 donors, via ...
EUGENE VOLOKH on how mapping political contributions may discourage donations. If this was done to …
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EUGENE VOLOKH on how mapping political contributions may discourage donations. If this was done to the other side, it would be McCarthyism . . . .
Donor Maps
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eightmaps
A mash-up of Google Maps and Prop 8 Donors.
Proposition 8 changed the California state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. These are the people who donated in order to pass it.
This map is causing something of a foofaraw on the right, where some worry that such exposure will tend to reduce donations to political causes.
These are, of course, for the most part the same people who want to do away with all regulations governing political donations, and substitute instead transparent, full, and accurate public disclosure.
Unless, of course, it is their ox being gored. ...
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