Here’s a liberal lawyer more interested in intellectual honestly than with framing Samuel Alito’s “controversial” opinions in such a way that those who would oppose Alito can pluck from them a few disingenuous talking points. Liberals who favor a particular judicial philosophy are not going to like Alito; this much is obvious, and it’s to be expected. But what they shouldn’t do is dissemble in their attempts to sink his

From Reuters: France will give local government officials the authority to impose curfews in areas hit by rioting to try to halt almost two weeks of unrest, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced on Monday. Villepin ruled out army intervention in an interview with France’s TF1 television but said the cabinet would meet on Tuesday to clear the way for government officials known as prefects to impose curfews. “Wherever

Interesting bit from Julian Sanchez in the December Reason: As market watchers puzzle over the the current housing boom, a recent study suggests government may be fueling price increases. In a paper to be published in the American Economic Review, two Harvard economists, Edward L. Glaeser and Raven E. Saks, and Joseph Gyourko, a professor of finance and real estate at the University of Pennsylvania, note that housing prices have

1.  Coming from an academic background, nothing steams my bean so much as a professor misusing his power to try to destroy the incipient career of a PhD student –an offense made even more egregious when such bullying is part of a campaign to punish said student for his political views. For those of you who haven’t been following the story as it makes its way around the blogosphere, Info-Theory’s