I have a review of Helena Silverstein's new study of judicial bypass provisions in parental involvement statutes up at TAP. My bottom line:The particularly salient lesson to draw from Silverstein's book is that it's important to ask whether abortion regulations actually accomplish anything, even on their...
A great article by Erwin Chemerinsky about the latest appalling cutback on habeas corpus rights. The odious Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act gave a one-year time limit to file.
Carlos Guillen coming to town and making Derek Jeter the third best shortstop in yesterday's game reminds me that The Left recently had a post about bad trades. Evidently, Bill.
My favorite part of the VDH rant that d. links below:First is fiscal sanity. For most Americans piling up debt is as much an emotional and spiritual crisis as it is an economic one. [Most Americans? Evidence? --ed.] An indebted America makes all of us feel...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
This is the eighth of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.1. China's Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4..
Shorter VDH:It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't read Greek literature any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms....
Remarkably, Sonny Rollins's sublime "St. Thomas" came up on my I-Tunes shuffle about 10 minutes before that I read that the incomparable drummer who played on the track had passed.
From the Braves announcers...Joe Simpson: Just a glancing blow off the left leg.Skip Carey: It's what the pitching fraternity calls "a flesh wound."Joe Simpson: So does the Black Knight.Skip Carey:.
Larry Kudlow, July 17:The big theme in today’s Dow crossing the 14,000 threshold for the first time is one of unprecedented global economic growth and a worldwide stock market boom. Simply put, this is the greatest global stock market boom in history.What we are witnessing here,...
...But apparently, in Hollywood, pregnant is the new super-thin and going to jail because of an act linked to a drug addiction, well that's just what everyone is doing (Lohan,.
I suppose it's my job to report on such things, but seeing that Robin Givhan and the extremely desperate homeless person's Robin Givhan are discussing Camille Paglia discussing Hillary Clinton's.