Over the past couple of years four people I've had some sort of relationship with were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so I've gotten to know more than I ever wanted to know about this especially terrible disease. It's estimated that about 43,000 Americans will be...
Author: Paul Campos
Apparently Ann Althouse posted an item on her blog about the three finalists for the dean job at Wisconsin Law School, asking for comments regarding them. According to someone who.
Leaving aside all legal considerations, a mission that reflected a rational anti-terrorism policy -- at least in a country not in the grip of continual hysteria -- would have aimed.
(1) Was the killing of Osama bin Laden an execution, or would the military team have taken OBL alive if he hadn't resisted or had been rendered harmless? Government officials have made contradictory statements on this point, and it's unlikely we'll ever know the truth...
Or at least start being a little less hysterical? See also Yglesias and Fallows. Update: This kind of thing was inevitable, and no doubt we'll be hearing from lots of.
This ABC News story indicates that the only other people killed in the "firefight" in which OBL was supposedly killed were his son, two "couriers," and a woman who one.
There's a good piece in the NYT this morning on how law schools hand out merit scholarships to significantly more students than will end up being able to retain them, given traditional law school grading practices (Paul Caron has a useful summary of the article...
This is interesting. Apparently Obama is holding a PC later this morning to address the "issue." My off the cuff reaction is that this is a mistake. From a political.
Goodbye waiters? Well not exactly. Somebody still has to bring you your food: Suri stresses that the console is not designed to replace waiters. "You still need people to bring.
I have a piece in TNR that tries to answer what ought to be a straightforward question: What percentage of graduates of the 198 ABA-accredited law schools are getting real legal jobs within nine months of graduation? If a real legal job is defined as...
A new CBS/NY Times poll finds that 47% of Republican voters say Barack Obama was born outside the United States. (Only a third say he was born in this country,.
Still not a war though. Interesting thoughts from former Pentagon analyst on the politics of drone warfare.