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Archive for 2008
June 23, 2008
I’M AT THE GYM, but ScotusBlog is liveblogging the Supreme Court’s opinions this morning.
UPDATE: No Heller opinion today.
Knoxville, Tennessee. The Law School rotunda, looking up.
UPDATE: Donald Linton emails: “When I first saw your rotunda picture I expected the stewardess from 2001 to be walking the perimeter.” She has Sundays off. Meanwhile, John McGinnis writes:
Glenn, most imposing shot. A touch of cropping and the piece could be titled as modern art. Please post your camera and lens if you have the time.
Thanks! It was taken with the D300 and the Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye. I actually did consider cropping it down to the center elements, but my Knoxville photos are supposed to be about Knoxville, not just abstract compositions. Maybe that’s the wrong attitude!
It takes a Rick Lee, though, to make a stump look good.
OBAMA ON IRAQ: Forward, into the past!
MICHAEL TOTTEN: The road to Kosovo. If you enjoy his work, remember that it’s supported by reader donations.
DALE AMON: “The efforts to slay the tax dragon in Massachusetts have advanced past the last of the expensive hurdles.” I wish Carla Howell, et al., luck.
JACK NEELY LOOKS AT THUNDER ROAD, and the remake that Robert Mitchum’s son Jim is working on.
THE TELEGRAPH: Extremists are winning the battle for the hearts and minds of Britain’s young Muslims, a disturbing police report warns. Well, they’re trying to inspire loyalty. Liberal secular society isn’t trying, and acts vaguely ashamed of itself to boot.
IS BOB BARR the new Ralph Nader? Democrats are hoping so.
SUBPRIME SIX UPDATE: “Some journalists and Republican lawmakers are asking if Countrywide bought a bailout bill with its VIP loans to Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. But when asking cui bono? about Dodd’s bill, we need to look to Bank of America.”
Dodd’s also getting more flak from homestate papers. As I’ve said before, local media seem to be outperforming national media on this story.
Meanwhile, Kent Conrad denies that he had a “sweetheart deal.”
A LOT OF PEOPLE are expecting a decision from the Supreme Court in the Heller Second Amendment case today. (It pretty much has to be soon.) Here’s a brief piece on the case I wrote a while ago. And here’s a lengthier Second Amendment primer.
MUCH MORE ON BOUMEDIENE, from Fred Thompson.
EUROPE: More fallout from the Irish “no” vote. “The attempt to override the triple ‘No’ votes of the French, Dutch, and Irish peoples has brought the EU to a systemic crisis of legitimacy.”
PROTEST AND COUNTERPROTEST at the Marine Recruiting Office in Berkeley. Speaking of clown shoes . . . .
CANADIAN KANGAROO COURT UPDATE:
The tragedy of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal’s case against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine over alleged “hate” mongering because of Steyn’s views on Islam, is that most people don’t give a damn.
Oh, many sympathize with Steyn because the issue seems so silly, but most don’t see the destructive effect of hate legislation, or how it threatens our freedom.
When the stormtroopers wear clown shoes instead of jackboots, it’s easy to forget that they’re still stormtroopers.
MORE ON ZIMBABWE: The silence of the world grows deafening as Robert Mugabe mercilessly crushes those who dare to oppose him.
The “human rights” community once again fails to rein in a real killer. Their impotence where it matters perhaps accounts for their stridency where it doesn’t.
AUSTIN BAY: Return of the US Army Air Corps? No, not exactly. But the Air Force probably doesn’t like it. “UAVs are forcing organizational adaptation. The technology escapes current turf boundaries. Recall US military aircraft were once part of the Army Signal Corps.”
WHEN IT COMES TO IRAQ, good news is no news, as the better things go, the less we hear:
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.†Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News†has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News†and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.†(The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
You might suspect a political angle. This might strengthen your suspicions:
Journalists at all three American television networks with evening newscasts expressed worries that their news organizations would withdraw from the Iraqi capital after the November presidential election. They spoke only on the condition of anonymity in order to avoid offending their employers.
Hmm.