The Stopped Clock

Well, not really. They say , A majority of the survey respondents agreed with statements that "judicial activism" has reached the ...

Over at Volokh, Orin Kerr tentatively disagrees with Norm Pattis on the DeLay indictment. It seems more likely to me that DeLay knew the in...

So Judy Miller has been freed to testify by her source, I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. The publisher of ...

Norm Pattis says yes .

A year or so ago I read an editorial out of Europe, suggesting that American churches should be grateful for the barrier between church and ...

In today's Washington Post, William Rasberry instructs us of a growing disconnect between marriage and motherhood for poor mothers. Unl...

After a recent computer problem, I unplugged my cable modem and router for a few hours to completely reset them. (Well, that was more time t...

Recent changes over at the New York Times , specifically their moving editorials into a "for pay" category while adding additional...

Mike's recent Crime and Federalism post , mentioned below, about trial taxes also opines that plea bargaining is unconstitutional. This ...

Over at Crime and Federalism , Mike argues that the tough criminal sentences handed out to white collar offenders constitutes a trial tax . ...

Britain is apparently compiling a list of terrorist events throughout history (acts of violence against people, property, and electronic sy...

This post over at the Volokh Conspiracy brings to mind my prior thoughts on gotcha politics .

I understand why the town of Gretna and its police chief are trying to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world - what a black eye. The ch...

I do find it interesting, as Google is being sued over its Google Print service , how differently online and traditional publishers view cop...

According to Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), The fact is, is we -- I know of $100 billion in cuts that we could make tomorrow that nobody would ...

With the catastrophe in New Orleans, the Bush Administration has proposed a program which will help poor (former) residents of New Orleans b...

Google announces " Polyglot pictures ": People all around the world are photo-mad, snapping digital photos everywhere they go. Tod...

Context: A search for missing keys. Overheard: How about I see yo' keys? What? I see yo' keys! That's not funny. Like in Harry P...

In white collar crime legal circles, it is often suggested that white collar criminals are somehow deserving of lesser sentences because of ...

One of the stranger reform proposals I occasionally hear emerge from the medical circles is the notion of a "schedule of damages" ...