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24 Mar 2010, 3:20 pm
According to the Boston Globe, Iraq's bonds are now rated "nearly on par" with California's. If Iraq can manage to avoid public employees unions, maybe it will surpass us soon. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 10:06 am
I got my census forms yesterday. The cover letter is dated March 15, 2010. I received it on that very day. The body of the letter requests that I "complete and mail back the enclosed census form today." (Emphasis mine.) But the actual form asks me to list all residents of my home as of April 1, 2010. In a nation of over 300,000,000, a lot of people will be born between March 15th and April 1st. Many will die, sometimes unpredictably. Some will arrive from foreign countries; others will… [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 3:49 pm
Sarah Palin is acting silly. Where is that smart, sensible (and funny too!) Governor of Alaska who gave a speech last year at the Republican National Convention? [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 3:58 pm
USD is a pretty safe place. According to the crime statistics that were released today, there has not been a single "hate crime" on campus for the past four years. No murders. No robberies. The last aggravated assault was four years ago. There have been, hower, ten forcible sexual assaults over the last four years, so the numbers are hardly perfect. And five motor vehicle thefts occurred in 2006. … [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 7:07 pm
A friend of mine quoted an alarming statistic about credit card debt to me recently. He said the average American family carries $8000 in credit card debt. Can that be so? Well ... no, it isn't exactly so. Although the figure has been quoted all over the internet for years, it is in fact highly misleading. It's a mean rather than a median. If a few people have a very large debt, using the mean will make Americans look… [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 7:12 pm
People disagree a lot about how much immigration is best for the country. Fine. I won't weigh in on that today. I submit only that it is easier to accept more immigrants when we know they will assimilate into mainstream American culture in a reasonable amount of time. First and foremost, that means learning to speak English. Usually that's not something that immigrants need to be encouraged to do. They want to do it. But… [read post]
30 May 2007, 4:12 pm
This is a surprise. Cultural anthropologist Richard Shweder demonstrates that there are two sides to every story: The [Tuskegee research on black victims of syphilis], which was conducted openly and without secrecy, is now commonly and routinely portrayed in one or more of the following ways: as racist science; as 'a programme of controlled genocide' (whites against blacks); as a violation of basic human rights; as a study by the US government's Public Health Service in… [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 3:15 pm
Some people see this week's legalization of abortion in Mexico City as a signal that the Roman Catholic Church is losing its grip on Latin America generally. Maybe. I afraid I'm in no position to judge. But Mexico has never been your average Catholic country. Its history is full of profound ambivalence toward the Church. Of course, there are many serious Catholics in Mexico. But anti-Catholic sentiment is also great there--… [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 11:25 am
... though it's not clear that I needed more evidence that "meetings make us dumber." Anyone who has ever served on a law school faculty knows how disappointing an assemblage of supposedly smart people can be. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 3:51 am
Another wrote, "Can't wait for the shaming to begin, Gail. [read post]
28 May 2020, 3:25 am
Now they’re going to try to bring back the old identity-spoils system [Gail Heriot, RealClearPolitics [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 10:24 pm
Commission on Civil Rights [Caroline May, Daily Caller]: Civil Rights Commissioners Peter Kirsanow, Gail [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 12:14 pm
via www.nationalreview.com Instapundit -- Gail Heriot. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 8:43 pm
It's been such a long time since I've had time to blog that I've nearly forgotten how to use Typepad. Oh well. All I can say is that I've been really busy .... Still, I do have a point to make about Chinese Tiger Mothers that it's possible nobody else has made (or at least nobody has made in quite the same way). It's this: Cultural traditions die hard--even when they are transplanted to other places, times and circumstances. These habits can be handed down from… [read post]
15 May 2010, 7:28 pm
He makes New Jersey seem like a cool place. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 6:48 pm
I love this guy: "The Senate health care debate has run into a major delaying maneuver by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who demanded that a proposed amendment be read in full -- a move that could take hours. The amendment, which is more than 700 pages long and has no chance of passing, would create a single-payer health system. It was offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent socialist from Vermont , who caucuses with the Democrats." I met Senator Coburn very briefly a few… [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 3:47 pm
No, it wasn't a lot of rain. But after five days of fire, even a few tiny drops felt good as I was walking to my car in the grocery store parking lot. The tear that welled up in my eyes may have been a bit larger and wetter, but I'm willing to take whatever rain I can get. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 5:34 pm
If a conservative law professor can't be relied upon to take the rule of law seriously, who can be ... ? Thursday night I was taking a cab from Dulles Airport and was talking with my cab driver, who was from Pakistan. He said something mildly derogatory about Pakistani politicians, and in the spirit of multi-cultural small talk, I said that politicians are like that everywhere. He smiled at me with weary, but knowing eyes and explained to me about Pakistan, America and… [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 10:56 pm
As some of you know, our late colleague Bernard H. Siegan was nominated by Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1987. He was never confirmed. Bernie had the misfortune to be nominated during the Bork Era and was thus one of the early victims of "borking." Among those to attack Bernie was Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe, who wrote a very intemperate letter to Senator Joseph Biden (then chairman of the… [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 12:00 pm
Never laugh when over a million people tell you that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ought to be Time Magazine's "Man of the Century." About ten years ago, there was a raft of news stories about all the votes Ataturk (whose name, bestowed upon him by the Turkish National Assembly, means "Father of the Turks") was getting in the Time Magazine poll. Ultimately, Winston Churchill got more votes than Ataturk (1.36 million vs. 1.34 million), but Ataturk… [read post]
