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Palestinian Settlements: Low Road to Israel’s “Higher” Ground

May 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Israel and the Middle East, World Affairs

I am (sur­pris­ingly) not par­tic­u­larly dis­mayed by Sam’s recent post “Jew­ish Time­line: Israel and the The­ory of Just War.” Per­haps I’ve just become cyn­i­cal about the whole Israeli-Palestinian thing. Fif­teen years ago, I was really into it. Now, I just think they’re prob­a­bly all nuts. They’re cer­tainly too close to their prob­lems – both Israelis… […]

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Another Role

May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Law and Legal Affairs, Uncategorized

Hello, all. I would like to intro­duce a new project I’m work­ing on: LawSchoolReference.com. As the new pri­mary blog­writer for the site, I will cover top­ics of inter­est to any­one con­sid­er­ing law school, from the LSAT (Law School Admis­sions Test) through the appli­ca­tion process, includ­ing a bit about what it’s like to be a law […]

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Of UFOs and Foreign Presidents

May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Birthers seem to employ the same logic that UFOl­o­gists do. Com­pare Cecil Ash’s ® defense of Arizona’s Birther’s Amend­ment to the Coali­tion for the Free­dom of Information’s goals for Con­gress. While UFO true believ­ers insist on the exis­tence of gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments the gov­ern­ment insists don’t exist, Birthers insist on the nonex­is­tence of gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments that […]

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Elena Kagan

May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It seems Pres­i­dent Obama has his pick for the Supreme Court: Elena Kagan, Over the next few months, I’m sure we’ll hear a lot of ridicu­lous­ness regard­ing her nom­i­na­tion.  There are those on the looney left call­ing for her to “open up.” Sorry, guys.  While I agree that the con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings have effec­tively become a […]

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US Government Has THREE Branches?">Wait—the US Government Has THREE Branches?

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Law and Legal Affairs

Mary Kate Cary notes on usnews.com that only about 14 per­cent of Amer­i­cans know who the chief judge of the most pow­er­ful court in the land is, but 66 per­cent can name a judge on “Amer­i­can Idol.”  I wish I could count myself among the third that can­not, but at least I also know who […]

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