Archive for: April 2009

Remember Barry Bonds? Remember when he broke the HR record, and the pundits were all bemoaning the fact that his record was tainted by steroid use? Remember the line du jour? Let’s see, I think it was, “We’ll just have …

NPR:NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term.

The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the …

You know, this is unreal, in the technical sense of the term, but even as scientists say that it’s important to maintain the moniker “Swine Flu” as indicative of the species of origination, the linguistic-grievance axis are still all …

Gibbs: I’m not really an intentionalist, but I do play one on TV:

Gotta love the wink wink nod nod here. It’s as if …

lurches hateward. William Creeley at FIRE:

Yesterday, in his blog entry discussing the difficult road facing petition candidates for governing board positions at Harvard University and Dartmouth College—and the substantial hostility they face if elected—Kyle provided an excellent overview of the independent campaign, tenure, and eventual dismissal of former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki. As Kyle usefully recounts, Zywicki, a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, was elected to Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees in 2005 as a petition candidate after running on a free speech platform. Once elected, Zywicki and his fellow elected petition candidates followed through on their campaign promises by leading a successful effort to eliminate Dartmouth’s speech codes and thereby uphold Dartmouth’s stated commitment to free speech, eventually earning Dartmouth a “green light” ranking from FIRE. Earlier this month, Dartmouth’s newly-stacked Board voted not to reelect Zywicki to a second term.

Following his dismissal, Zywicki posted an open letter to the Dartmouth community, in which he argued that he “was denied reelection either because of the content of my speech or for some unnamed reason for which [he] received no notice or opportunity to respond.” In response, John Engelman, an executive board member of Dartmouth’s Association of Alumni, protested in a letter to the editors of The Dartmouth that Zywicki’s open letter contained “distortions, misstatements of facts and outrageous accusations.” Venturing further still, Engelman writes:

Zywicki resurrects the canard that a speech code existed at Dartmouth prior to the election of T.J. Rodgers ‘70 to the Board . This is not true. I challenge anyone to produce a copy of that “speech code.” If it existed, it had to be somewhere in print - in the student handbook, the rules and regulations of the College - somewhere. But no one has been able to find it. Please point it out to us, or drop this unfounded accusation.

We at FIRE are only too happy to accept Engelman’s “challenge.”

…and gauntlettes.

The third party option is starting to look better and better, honestly. And as I’ve noted several times now, I think people will be surprised by how many Democrats a party that adheres to classical liberal principles …

…and the One won?As the President intervenes in more and more industries, a key question is how he does it and what he is trying to achieve. Is he trying to reorganize insolvent firms while, as much as possible, …

The Washington Post’s Tom Schales puts on his best critic face and grades the President’s performance last evening:Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting president. And in a good way — not the way some of his predecessors were. He’s …

Had she known, Windsor Castle’s most famous resident would not have been amused.

A couple were caught having sex on a grass bank outside the Queen’s residence yesterday - as hundreds of shocked tourists looked on in horror and amusement.

Apparently …

(A Serr8d joint)

Not as pretty as Darleen’s pics below.