ACCORDING TO THIS STORY in the Washington Post, Cynthia McKinney’s remarks on 9/11 have gotten her into serious electoral trouble. These folks would surely be pleased to hear that.
Archive for 2002
August 19, 2002
THE POWER OF THE WEB: On Friday at 12:57 p.m. I put NWU legal historian Jim Lindgren’s dissection of Michael Bellesiles’ Arming America up on the site. As of 8:09 a.m. today, it’s been downloaded 27,038 times. That’s several times the circulation of the Yale Law Journal, where it originally appeared.
Lindgren’s piece is, of course, of unusual interest. But that’s still an amazing response to a law review article. I wonder if law reviews are missing out by not making their content easily available on the Web. Some do, but most don’t.
ORCHID of The Daily Dose has a list of recommended websites — and if you’ll scroll down, a reading list, too.
AN OPINION FROM THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT has produced a rather bizarre response from the District Judge involved, which Susanna Cornett characterizes as racist, and which Howard Bashman calls “quite remarkable, and definitely newsworthy.”
MUGABE USING “POL POT TACTICS:” Here’s the gist from The Times:
“The food trucks arrive in the villages once a week,” the man explains. “Everyone has to stand up and shout ‘Long Live Robert Mugabe!’, ‘Down with the whites!’ and ‘Down with Morgan Tsvangirai!’,” (the opposition leader). “Only those who can prove they are members of the Zanu (PF) can queue. They say to the others ‘go and get your food from Tony Blair in No 10 Downing Street in London!’ But we don’t know where London is.” As everyone in the hotel room nods in agreement, a woman, a former shop assistant whose husband died of Aids, begins to cry.
“My seven children are starving. I heard that food was being delivered in a village 40 kilometres away,” she says. “When I arrived, they said I could not have any because I supported the whites and the opposition party during the election. I dare not go home and face my children. I wish I could die.”
Noam Chomsky was quick to denounce the United States for the imaginary starvation of millions. He doesn’t seem nearly as loud where someone is actually starving people on purpose does he? Why could that be?
Oh, yeah: Mugabe isn’t an American, or allied with America, and hence is incapable of evil. Sorry, I forgot there for a moment.
UPDATE: Norwegian blogger Vegard Valberg is irate about this, and calls on South African President Thabo Mbeki to do something.
I got a nasty email from someone in South Africa a week or two ago, sarcastically asking why the United States isn’t bombing Zimbabwe. My response was that we’re a bit busy right now, and that if South Africa decided to get rid of Mugabe he’d be gone in a week.
TALKLEFT has weighed in on the whole jury nullification issue, discussed below.
UPDATE: Here’s more on this subject, from Ernie the Attorney.
“THE PROFESSOR WHO CAN’T COUNT STRAIGHT:” Here’s an article on Marc Herold, purveyor of bogus numbers on Afghan civilian casualties — and on the journalists who eagerly cite his work despite its rather obvious falsity.
The article’s unpacking of Herold’s numbers and their nonexistent sources — which are Bellesiles-like in their bogosity — is amusing. That so many people eagerly embrace them out of desire to have something bad to say about America is, well, pitiful.