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Presidential Medal for Failure
Incompetence has its rewards. Bremer badly mismanaged the Iraq Occupation. Just yesterday, the Iraqi interim President complained bitterly of the disbanding o…
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Google to Scan Books Still in Copyright
According to Harvard University Libraries, Google will scan not only books out of copyright, but also books still in copyright. It will not make those latter b…
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Saddam Found in Hole: The first anniversary
BBC.com reports that "More American soldiers have died since Saddam's capture than before." That makes this a much sadder anniversary than it mig…
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Scandal: Bush Is Coached on What to Say Before He Is on Camera!
This letter writer to the NY Times defends Rumsfeld's interrogator... Re: "G.I.'s Query to Rumsfeld Prompted by Reporter" (news article, Dec.…
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Affidavit by Australian Guantanamo Detainee
The allegations in the David Hicks affidavit are shocking, even though we are inured to the steady stream of horrifying claims (some, at least substantiated by…
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Supreme Court to Rule on Grokster!
Cert. granted by the Court. 04-480 MGM STUDIOS INC., ET AL. V. GROKSTER, LTD., ET AL. I personally would have preferred the Court to have waited longer to ent…
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Michael Berube Reveals How Conservative Scholars Are Denied Positions in Rhetoric Departments
Berube comes clean... I've been ... damn busy making sure that my department doesn't hire any conservatives this year. We have two positions open in R…
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Women in Power: Iraq v. U.S.
The interim Iraqi constitution requires that a quarter of the legislature to be elected in January must be women. How does this compare with the composition of…
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Becker/Posner--Another Rebuttal
International law giant Thomas M. Franck offers another rebuttal to the Becker/Posner type of argument in his short piece in the Proceedings of the American Soc…
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Wanted: More Nobel Bloggers!
The entry of Gary Becker into the blog world makes me wonder what other Nobel laureates should enter the blogosphere. My initial thoughts: Amartya Sen (Economi…
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Becker/Posner Forget the Golden Rule
Nobel laureate Gary Becker and legal collossus Richard Posner have now opened their blog, to much fanfare. Their first set of posts take up the issue of preem…
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Let's See--Take Experimental Flu Vaccine or Risk Flu?
The Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight now has a new solution to the flu vaccine shortage--the importation of experimental flu vaccine from Germany…