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Zarqawi is dead
Tweet Share on Facebook June 8, 2006 CommentOne of the wonderful things about the blogosphere is that you don't have to get up early to surf the Web for intelligent commentary on events like the death of Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq. Glenn Reynolds does that for you. Here's his post on this happy event (and the snarky reactions of some in mainstream media). Follow all the links, and enjoy the wonderful news. And also the news that the Iraqis now have defense and interior ministers: The government is complete. June 7 may turn out to be an important milestone in the struggle in Iraq.
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More protests in Iran
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2006 CommentIf you read only the New York Times and the Washington Post, you haven't read much about the impressive number of protests in Iran. You would know more if you read Folha de São Paulo, Brazil's largest newspaper, whose Washington correspondent Sergio Davila recently spent 10 days in Iran and has produced copious reports. You can check them out, at least if you read Portuguese, on Davila's blog.
I haven't worked my way through all this, but the reporting looks impressive—and makes you wonder why American journalists are missing the story.
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The June 6 elections
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2006 CommentThe big election yesterday was the special election to fill the vacancy of the disgraced Duke Cunningham in the 50th Congressional District of California.
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Terrorism: Call it what it is
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2006 CommentBrian Sopp, a senior at the University of North Carolina who is working as an Intercollegiate Students Institute intern for me this summer, contributes the following post on terrorism at the university.
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The ROTC at Harvard
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2006 CommentHarvard University has not had ROTC on campus since 1969, but some Harvard students do enroll in ROTC and take courses on other campuses. During graduation week, there is a ceremony in Harvard Yard for ROTC graduates. Since he became president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers has appeared and spoken at each of these ceremonies; today he does so again, for the last time.
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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.
