FOXNews, bless ’em, is following the lead of The Weekly Standard and circulating this story of vile Saudi hatred and antisemitic indoctrination. Remember: Nothing gets on Saudi teevee without the Saudi government’s permission… Incidentally, if you missed David Tell’s wonderful piece for the Standard the first time around, here’s that link (the column provides a complete transcript of the toddler interview, as well as other revealing Islamaphernalia). Also, Den Beste

Academic legal blogger Jeff Cooper takes on academic legal blogger Glenn Reynolds in this lengthy post about legal interpretation. As someone who’s done a lot of work with interpretation theory myself, I’m interested in the world of meta-interpretive theorizing — or (put another way) I’m interested in examining the way people’s ideas about how interpretation works translates into real world expressions of those ideas — in the form of public

Jacob Sullum and Mike Lynch, both writing in Reason (and both of whom I admire greatly), hit the slippery slope in full stride in defense of Jose Padilla’s civil liberties. I take the force of their points, I really do (Sullum objects to preemptive arrests, Lynch to “government abuse of power”) — but still I’m not sold. Padilla’s association with Al Qaeda, his unwillingness to cooperate with authorities, his (alleged)

VodkaPundit thinks he knows his Caeser salads. Pshaw, I say. Just pshaw. As Charles Austin points out in VP’s comments section (and I concur), one shouldn’t even think about coming to praise the Caeser unless one brings with him a tin of anchovies as tribute. Not anchovy paste, either. Real filets. Also, you want to use raw egg yolk and lime juice in addition to your Worcestershire sauce and garlic.

I’ve been pretty outspoken about my support for the Padilla detention. As far as I’m concerned, the “enemy combatant” designation is apt and is backed up by Supreme Court precedent. Padilla had legal recourse under the designation — his attorney filed a habeus corpus petition on his behalf — and so his detention is not denying him his Constitutional rights in the way many people are suggesting. Yesterday a federal

Marc Weisblott sent along this little gem on the “dark side” of Lawrence Welk (courtesy The Seattle Weekly). Interesting stuff — although it bears repeating that you haven’t even come close to a “dark side” until you’ve attended a few of Bobby Vinton’s “Swingers Only” bashes. All that blue velvet you get used to pretty quickly; but witnessing the cast of “Heehaw” frolicking nude on pommel horses…well, you never really

Marc Weisblott sent along this little gem on the “dark side” of Lawrence Welk (courtesy The Seattle Weekly). Interesting stuff — although it bears repeating that you haven’t even come close to a “dark side” until you’ve attended a few of Bobby Vinton’s “Swingers Only” bashes. All that blue velvet you get used to pretty quickly; but witnessing the cast of “Heehaw” frolicking nude on pommel horses…well, you never really

The original Not Bad Dude, Brian Linse (always game for a gun debate), concludes a recent post on the so-called “gun show loophole” with this rather remarkable statement: “pretending that there is no such thing as a gun show loophole diminishes the credibility of those of us who want our gun rights made stronger.” Implicit in this challenge are the dual charges that 1) there is in fact something called

“A judge has denied Zacarias Moussaoui access to airline security plans, citing a risk that the accused Sept. 11 conspirator could contact future hijackers despite his strict confinement,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The judge likewise denied Moussaoui access to automatic rifles and a stash of weapon’s grade plutonium. I’ll ask again: Why is this guy not being held by the military?

I’m beginning to find headlines like this (from the Hindustan Times, but it may as well have come from the New York Times) just plain humorous: “Palestinian official rejects Powell’s ‘provisional state’“: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed on Thursday remarks by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in support of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. Powell ‘should concentrate on the real thing: ending the Israeli occupation,’ Erekat said. Powell advanced