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Let's kill all the law clerks
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 CommentStuart Taylor of National Journal and Benjamin Wittes of the Washington Post have an interesting article in the forthcoming Atlantic arguing that Supreme Court justices should be deprived of their law clerks. Taylor and Wittes are not cranks; far from it. Taylor is a very widely respected legal commentator, and Wittes has written thoughtfully on legal issues in the Post's editorial and opinion pages. They note that the court's caseload is far lower than it was before the 1980s and that justices have far more clerks—four each—than they used to have. Clerks are typically recent law school graduates who have made very high grades but who, at age 25 or so, have very limited experience. I have made a similar argument myself.
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Yes, they are Muslim terrorists
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 Comment (1)The impulse of denial in response to the arrest of 17 Canadian Muslims on charges of terrorism continues. One is tempted to respond derisively, as I did in this blog yesterday and as Jeff Jarvis does on his blog, The Buzz Machine:
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Europeans ditch Palestinians
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 CommentAn interesting poll from Stanley Greenberg on European attitudes toward the Palestinians and Israel, via Opinion Journal's Best of the Web Today.
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Revolting developments in Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 CommentHere is a report on popular protests in Iran that have been almost entirely ignored by mainstream media.
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The Democrats' message: 'You don't need papers for voting'
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 CommentIn the special election in California's 50th Congressional District, where voting comes tomorrow, Democratic candidate Francine Busby made the astonishing statement, in response to a question from a question in Spanish, that "You don't need papers for voting." Here is the account from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Big defeat for Hugo Chávez in Peru
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2006 Comment"Publius Pundit" has an excellent collection of blogs on Alan García's victory over Ollanta Humala in Peru.
