A reminder that as of now the offer to Salaita is still outstanding, and UIUC's trustees can still do the right thing and honor their commitment. If you haven't already, you can send a respectful email to the trustees at the addresses provided at Corey's...
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The architects of the Halbig litigation are very, very upset that the "political" D.C. Circuit would use its explicit authority under the phony-baloney so-called "Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure" to.
Balko is doing some extraordinary and important work here: “She was crying as I explained the situation to her,” Voss says. “So then I started to cry as I explained it her..
Charles has the juiciest excerpt from Richard Posner's tour de force opinion holding the same-sex marriage bans in jurisdictions covered by 7CA unconstitutional. But it's worth reading in its entirety. Here's the bottom line: Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straight-forward...
When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all.
Shorter Verbatim some Economist hack, on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: "Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history.
I'm a lifelong Seahawks fan, but a fairly casual and not particularly analytical NFL fan. So perhaps someone who knows the league better than I would care to explain why the Seahawks are longer shots for the title than the Broncos? Three possibilities: 1) Path...
The D.C. Circuit will hear Halbig en banc, and in the order vacated this decade's answer to Bush v. Gore. Since the arguments for not hearing Halbig en banc were.
Not the Onion: The New York Yankees announced Tuesday that the team will wear a patch of Derek Jeter's final-season logo on all player hats and uniforms from Sunday, the.
Jessica Williams has the final word on catcalling and sexual harassment.
Some thoughts at the Diplomat on Japan's entry into the diesel sub market: Germany, France, and Russia have long dominated the existing market for diesel-electric submarines. The German Type 209.
This Rolling Stone profile of Willie Nelson is pretty great, even if magazines should not refer to their own work as "definitive," which is the equivalent of talking about your.