Friday, June 30, 2006
Good is Good (01:26 PM) - Some Republicans, I see, have bemoaned Warren Buffet’s generous donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Silly. And Columbia student Stephen Wang calls them on the silliness over at the Columbia Critic….
Zis Apple Computeur, Zey Are Anti-Competiteev (01:00 PM) - The French government has got a curious way of going about things. Now, you won’t find much stronger an anti-Apple partisan as me—those silly computers are blasphemy in my family—but by most accounts the firm puts out a decent suite…
The Cambridge Spin Cycle (12:30 PM) - A few days ago, David French at National Review Online made note that Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, had rescinded his offer to donate $115 million to Harvard University to create a global health institute. The reason Ellison cited…
A SCOTUS Power Grab? (08:40 AM) - National Review has posted an online symposium where international law experts discuss Hamdan. A point I keep hearing made is that, in its reasoning, the Supreme Court arrogated for itself brand-new powers. Julian Ku, at the above link, makes that…
Behind the Curve on Code (08:01 AM) - It takes some people an awful long time to catch on to what’s popular. I’m one of those people. So too, it seems, is OxBlogger David Adesnik, who just read the Da Vinci Code. He was surprised to learn that…
Thursday, June 29, 2006
‘The Mozart Effect’ for Pachyderms (06:15 PM) - Suma was sick. The forty-five year old elephant, who has been pleasing children at the Zagreb Zoo for nigh-on decades, began grieving without pause when Patna, her husband of sorts, died of cancer just a few weeks ago. The experts…
Roberts Reversed; War Crimes Tribunals Interdicted (10:34 AM) - The Supreme Court has decided against the government in Hamdan….
The Dartmouth Covers Governance Battle (09:07 AM) - Ben Taylor, when not swabbing the decks, reports for The Dartmouth. His article this ayem is “Alumni battle in national spotlight.” Now, I hasten to add that his topic isn’t purely an alumni battle, because the ‘battle’, such as it…
Globalization, Wagers, and the World Cup (07:42 AM) - At one online betting service, England is the favorite ‘gainst Protugal. Evidently, that’s ridiculous. But not when understood through the lens of globalization, David Post writes….
Michael Gerson on the Revelation of Terrorist De-Financing Program (07:13 AM) - The Examiner spoke with Gerson in his twilight moments at the White House, and he had a very nice way of lighting the problem with the New York Times wantonly revealing the details of a legal terrorist finance surveillance program:A…
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Making Up The News (04:38 PM) - The folks at Little Green Footballs are spot on: the cover of this morning’s Independent in Britain is just way, way, too much….
“Drug policy should focus on helping addicts, not jailing them” (04:29 PM) - Taylor Buley, who’s a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, is quite the impresario. The old man has got a book in print (and available for purchase here) and just this morning his libertarian take on drug abuse policy received…
Chairman of Dartmouth Task Force Accuses Constitution Dissenters of Trying to “take over the board of trustees” (07:00 AM) - In an open letter to the editor of the New York Times railing against that paper’s coverage of the controversial constitutional proposal at Dartmouth College, the chief of the Alumni Governance Task Force which produced the document, Joe Stevenson, attacks…
David Adesnik on the Foundered Flag Burning Amendment (06:02 AM) - He asketh, “After all, can Congress outlaw mimes just because they annoy us with their conduct rather than their speech?”…
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
As I was walkin’ round Grosvenor Square (09:43 PM) - Is it just me, or is Jimmy Buffet’s performance of Scarlet Begonias better than Jerry Garcia’s original?…
IAF aircraft blow up bridge in northern Gaza Strip (05:34 PM) - Jerusalem Post has late-breaking updates….
Dartmouth as Political Microcosm (02:18 PM) - In today’s The Dartmouth, Sara del Nido reflects on the national attention recently brought upon Dartmouth as the powers that be attempt a constitutional overhaul. An excerpt:The answer perhaps lies in the universality of the issues being debated… the proposed…
Ward Churchill Out At University of Colorado (09:52 AM) - The quack professor will be fired after an investigation turned up repeated infractions of the rules of scholarship, but he has, in turn, promised to sue if let go….
Congratulations to Mark Levin (09:21 AM) - The perennially outraged broadcaster will now, ABC Radio has announced, be heard in eight more major markets, including Tampa, San Diego, and Baltimore….
If You’re Givin’ While You’re Livin’, You’re Knowin’ Where It’s Goin’ (06:21 AM) - I noted yesterday that the world’s largest do-good organization, that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, is about to double in size after investor Warren Buffet decided suddenly to give away much of his wealth during his lifetime….
“My Policy Views Equal Worldwide Law” (06:08 AM) - At the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein writes on an irksome argumentative tactic: The cult of ‘international law’….
Saddam Hussein Skips a Meal (12:21 AM) - Greg Gutfield has typically insightful commentary: “I could never do a hunger strike. I think about food constantly. I am thinking about food right now as I type this very word (food). Today I had a bacon and avocado sandwich,…
In Texas, Fighting to Keep Brahms on Air (12:12 AM) - Dan Wakin, in the New York Times, spins a yarn about a little Texas radio station, KTPB, struggling for survival. Fighting to keep Johannes Brahms’ sweet, sad symphonies on the air….
Monday, June 26, 2006
Angelina Jolie on the United Nations (11:51 PM) - The movie star appeared on Anderson Cooper’s program for some chat about non-governmental institutions. On the UN, Angelina says:Well, because I think we hear a lot of — we certainly hear a lot of the negative things and — about…
FIRE on Flag Burning (12:49 PM) - Greg Lukianoff, the president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, takes to his organization’s blog to protest the anti-flag burning legislation currently being considered in Congress. He makes some strong points….
Lieutenant Tom Cotton Writes to Keller, Lichtblau & Risen (08:27 AM) - This seems to me very significant….
NYT Executive Editor Responds to Critics (07:36 AM) - If you write to New York Times editor Bill Keller about his decision to publish details of a terrorism-prevention program which is legal and effective—but was heretofore secret, that its targets might not avoid capture—he’ll respond with this letter. Scott…
Japan Agrees to Advance Deployment of PATRIOT Missiles (07:00 AM) - It is one thing to say whimsically that America is an imperialist, aggressive nation. It is another to observe that pretty much every nation acts the same way when its interests are directly threatened….
“A Threat That Belongs Behind Bars” (06:55 AM) - University of Chicago Law professor Eric Posner, also the co-author of one of the most important books on International Law, has an opposite-editorial in the New York Times defending Guantánamo Bay, and America’s barbaric practice of putting war enemies there,…
Tommy Woon Out at Dartmouth? (06:35 AM) - [Bumped to top on 6/26/06; update below.] An e-mailer has informed Dartblog that Dartmouth’s Associate Dean for Pluralism and Leadership—that is to say the head of OPAL, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, which acts as the diversity checkpoint for…
Money for Democracy at LeMoyne-Owen College (06:30 AM) - The small, mostly-black college is struggling. But in recent days it received an anonymous pledge of two and a half million that could save the school’s finances. The catch? The portion of that school’s Board of Trustees not elected democratically…
Sunday, June 25, 2006
The Zero Sum Sport (10:36 PM) - Steven Warshawsky at the American Thinker does some thinking about why Americans don’t like soccer. I think there are some very basic explanations, like the fact that soccer is necessarily an international sport, which makes very much sense for Europe….
Dartmouth ‘Round the Blogosphere (09:06 PM) - Emily Ghods, a gal who’s just finished her freshman year here, makes note of the Dartmouth governance struggle at the blog of the New Criterion. And junior Ben Taylor at his new page, the stout Dawn Treader, also makes mention,…
The World’s Largest Philanthropic Organization Is… (08:06 PM) - Bill Gates, of course. The thirty billion dollar foundation that he his wife started, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the most generous organization on Earth and, one can safely assume, the most efficient at doing good, at least…
A War, Like Any Other War (06:41 AM) - At some point in the last forty-eight hours the topic dominating the center and right of the political aisle became The War on the War on Terror—the major newsmedia’s penchant for not only amplifying the bad and squelching the good,…
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Peter Robinson on the Laura Ingraham Show (05:36 PM) - Dartlog has posted an audio excerpt of trustee Peter Robinson’s appearance on the Laura Ingraham Show on Thursday morning, where, after dispensing with Washington business, she asked him about the proposed new constitution here at Dartmouth. His advice? “We’d recommend…
Wonkette’s Hill Intern Hotties Contest (05:05 PM) - The fellows at Wonkette are hosting a Rate The Capitol Hill Intern contest. (Oh, hush; there’s a version for the men as well.) My vote? Devotedly for Katie Warner, who has 12.5% of the vote. Stephanie Carter currently leads the…
The Atrocious American Economy Strikes Again! (03:15 PM) - Advanced Micro Devices is building a new chip plant—in upstate New York. The Saratoga Springs plant won’t be open for a decade, since it is such a massive investment. $3.2 billion and no rivet a micrometer off. But it’s investment…
Executive Backlash (02:16 PM) - Ever since the judiciary dramatically expanded the government’s takings power in Kelo v. New London, small government advocates have been trying to peel back the scope of the decision. President Bush has entered the fray now, with an executive order…
He’s Awesome (06:57 AM) - Via a reader, I see that the British Broadcasting Corporation interviewed former Texas congressman Charlie Wilson. The interviewer sets up the interview by describing Wilson as “a whiskey soaked alcoholic who jet set around the world with models and saw…
Questions to Ask on Global Warming (06:10 AM) - If you’ve got to tell yourself a lie to believe that there isn’t global warming, and I believe that’s true, then you’ve got to at least dumb yourself down a few clicks to believe Al Gore-type hysteria on the subject….
Friday, June 23, 2006
Who Cares About Article Nine? (10:19 PM) - Japan still cannot legally project force in any very substantial way—though movements are afoot to change that—but their money, boy can they make it talk….
About That Quiz (09:51 PM) - Folks are talking about this quiz. It’s a quiz which asks the quizee to determine, after reading a quotation, whether the words are those of political commentator Ann Coulter or tyrannical dictator Adolph Hitler. It asks this of fourteen passages….
Tigerhawk in the Far East (09:27 PM) - “I am web surfing with the people, here.” Though it would be prudent to mind that old Tigerhawk has got his Blackberry, which is on a comfortably Canadian network. American businessmen can go to China and see a significant amount…
Spinning the Times (05:40 PM) - According to a mass e-mails dispatched from Dartmouth’s Office of Alumni Relations and reprinted below with names and addresses redacted, the New York Times article of two days ago, which lays out the issues with the proposed constitutional overhaul and…
Offense Taken (04:34 PM) - Kathryn Lopez notes that the Vice President takes offense at the New York Times’ disrespect for civil liberties….
Suing for the Right to Racially Discriminate (11:40 AM) - The Detriot Free Press reports the stunning fact that a few individuals and several ad-hoc interest groups are filing suit in Michigan courts to stop legislative efforts to make racial discrimination illegal in that state. U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow…
Dispatch from the front lines in ‘the war on the war on terror’ (08:15 AM) - Scott Ott scrambles to report on the New York Times’ reportage this morning of a newly-discovered secret United States program which allows our intelligence services to get information on terrorists’ bank transactions. An excerpt from Ott’s report follows, but please…
Charles Krauthammer Loves Australia (08:07 AM) - And what’s not to love? A burgeoning wine industry, a national politic centered around the active promotion of peace and liberty, and saucy parliamentarians with gorgeous locutions. Krauthammer recalls: “In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia…
Thursday, June 22, 2006
No One Carried Out September 11 Attacks (05:56 PM) - Roger Alford at the Opinio Juris blog notes an incredibly strange Pew poll which, if it is accurate, shows that a great majority of Muslims—in both the East and the West—believe that Arabs had nothing whatever to do with the…
Signaling (01:59 PM) - Two headlines from the Associated Press are interesting this morning: “U.S. says [its] missile-defense system limited,” and “Cheney says N.Korea missile capability rudimentary”. In other words, our message to the world is, Kim Jong-il can’t hit us, and if he…
World Cup Update (01:20 PM) - Ghana defeated the American soccer team. ESPN2 now returns to its regularly scheduled program, ‘How Many Grand Pianos Can This Norwegian Guy Juggle?’….
The Latest on Net Neutrality (01:09 PM) - The Daily Kos has an update on the “net neutrality” bill—and attending compromises—now wending its way through the Capitol….
Alpha Delta Search Yields Naught (09:19 AM) - The Dartmouth reports on a police search for a four-year-old sex tape in a college fraternity. RELATED: ‘Animal House’ writer Chris Miller ‘63 is working on a book, slated for a November 1, 2006 release. Little, Brown will be the…
More Blog Coverage of AGTF Constitution (07:45 AM) - David Gale comments on the repeated “bad publicity” the proposed anti-petition constitution has received; Scott Johnson notes that things have changed “wherever green is worn,” and Charles Mitchell over at National Review comments on the latest exchange between a American…
New York Times Covers Controversial Constitution (07:13 AM) - In an article viewable on the Internet here, in the International Herald-Tribune here, and in a (rather shoddy-looking) PDF document here, New York Times reporter Diana Schemo covers the battle over the Alumni Governance Task Force’s proposed constitution—one I have…
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
By the Bye… (10:06 PM) - The “Timeline of Dirty Tricks”, referenced in today’s New York Times article about the controversial constitutional overhaul at Dartmouth, is downloadable in PDF form here….
Scott Adams Discovers The Wrath of Fecalruba (04:09 PM) - Arubans take offense at a Dilbert cartoon….
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
This Time, Democrats Really Want That Minimum Wage Increase! (07:03 AM) - The Wall Street Journal provides for a good yawn:Democrats aim to make the minimum wage a maximum political problem for Republicans this election year. The minority party fired the first shot last week, when the House Appropriations Committee broke with…
Monday, June 19, 2006
Talk About Bellwethers… (07:56 AM) - If this Wall Street Journal report is accurate, and companies are indeed hedging their donations unusually toward Democrats in advance of the 2006 and 2008 elections, then it could be very bad news for the GOP:The change among some companies…
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Happy Father’s Day (04:16 PM) - To readers who are dads, have a very happy Father’s Day….
Saturday, June 17, 2006
What’s The Right Got To Do With It? (10:50 AM) - “A new fight has erupted at Dartmouth College, long a battleground for conservatives and liberals warring over politics, education and values.” An old battleground? That’s possible. Few people are in a position to know, most having spent only four years…
Michael Gerson Moves On (08:04 AM) - President Bush’s speechwriter for most of his first term and a portion of his second—Wall Street Journal man William McGurn took over as head of the speech shop in the middle of last year—was Michael Gerson, a quiet evangelical Christian…
Friday, June 16, 2006
“a zero tolerance policy for being passive” (06:20 PM) - Ann Althouse finds a letter to the editor which describes a public school that might favor boys, as opposed to the current ones which purportedly favor girls. I’m not sure about the growing incidence of people saying that elementary education…
“Why No Blogging,” You Ask. (03:06 PM) -
Thursday, June 15, 2006
The World’s Largest Photograph (10:00 AM) - An entire hangar is turned into a camera:Walk into the massive air hangar and the first thing you notice is an oppressive darkness broken only by a tiny beam of light from a gumball-size hole in the wall. Then, as…
The Motley Process (09:09 AM) - Scott Johnson stays on top of the Dartmouth story in “Where motley is worn, take 2,” and includes a very interesting document (Which Scott mistakenly attributes to me; would that I had written it!) called the Timeline of Dirty Tricks….
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Turnaround (10:13 AM) - The Wall Street Journal: “Bush’s Visit to Baghdad Signifies Upturn in His Political Fortunes” Even this morning’s The Note notes, “Everyone agrees: a comeback might be in the offing…”…
Those High-Tax Republicans (09:36 AM) - I know someone who bristles when it is mentioned that conservatives like George W. Bush are tax cutters. I suppose he’s right to. Our current president is a tax raiser—taxes themselves are going up under Bush. It is the tax…
Happy 231st Birthday to the United States Army (08:56 AM) - The United States Army began on June 14, 1775. Few organizations, I think, have been so lasting and so lastingly good. The Army fetes its birth here and at events around the globe. I thought I’d quote from Robert Wright’s…
Don’t Talk About Chi Chi (08:38 AM) - The conservative student newspaper at Johns Hopkins University is being trashed en masse. That’s against the law, but not important, apparently. What’s important is that the paper’s staffers be punished for not accepting the views of the school’s Diverse Sexuality…
The Value of Life Versus the Value of Munitions (08:30 AM) - Via the ever-vigilant Vital Perspective boys, a fascinating story from the West Bank. It seems that a non-military Palestinian vehicle, a van, was attempting to smuggle Katyusha rockets through the area. Since these rockets have recently been launched wildly toward…
Whole Foods’ Wholesome Philosophy (08:23 AM) - Andrew Samwick: “Who would have imagined that the founder of the grocery store that feeds the Leftist intelligentsia in enclaves around the country would be such a … capitalist?”…
John Kerry Demands Immediate Withdrawal of U.S. (08:00 AM) - Today’s Democrat demanding unconditional surrender to the choking Islamist din in Iraq is John Kerry, according to the Boston Globe:The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator’s sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to…
Rove and Innocence (07:38 AM) - Scott Ott reports:Republican electoral prospects in November appeared bleaker than ever this week after U.S. forces allowed al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to die in their custody and President George Bush’s close friend and adviser Karl Rove fanned the…
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Rove Innocent; Does Not Compute (08:38 AM) - When news like this breaks—news that a long-salivated-on conspiracy theory has not panned out—one goes to Democratic Underground for all one’s Schadenfreude needs. For example, here is poster Demeter (Society wants political commentators to append their names to their words,…
About that New Yorker Cartoon (08:06 AM) - Alright, look. Either something is very wrong with me or with the New Yorker cartoon editors. I choose to believe that something is very wrong with the New Yorker cartoon editors. Sunday evening I reprinted a cartoon from the latest…
Fitzmas Rains Saccharine Drops of Glory on Earth (07:43 AM) - There is no special reason for me personally to be pleased that Karl Rove shall not be charged—shant be even accused—of any wrongdoing in the Plame outing. Other than that some really nasty people wanted it to happen. So much…
Forget the Oil Spot Theory (07:41 AM) - Scott Adams has an idea for defeating Islamism:We offer to donate $25 million to al-quayduh if one of the noble jihadists will assist Bin Laden in achieving martyrdom. We might have to sweeten the deal with some free prizes, such…
Monday, June 12, 2006
Why Am I In Washington, D.C.? (03:07 PM) - Light blogging will continue, as engagements in the Capitol continue and the Jersey shore calls quickly thereafter… however, I’ll offer something to look forward to: I am in Washington for a symposium which aims to teach college and university executives…
Sunday, June 11, 2006
A Funny New Yorker Cartoon (07:20 PM) - Everyone knows that New Yorker cartoons are, on the whole, either 1) So horrendously lacking in humor as to be thereby humorous 2) Just generally unfunny or 3) So hopelessly nonsensical that it is clear the cartoonist is looking for…
Congratulations and Thanks to Colin Barry (01:56 PM) - Peter Robinson, at National Review’s The Corner, writes:On Sunday [today], Colin Sorkin Barry will graduate from Dartmouth College, joining the more than one thousand members of the Class of 2006 on the Green for Commencement. Today he stood alone in…
Look at All These Corrections (01:41 PM) - The Sweetness and Light blog is covering Time magazine’s extensive corrections to its black-hued Haditha cover story—the one which, like all the others, damns the United States military on the weakest possible evidence. John Hinderaker adds:And it has also developed…
Dartmouth Commencement 2006 (12:23 PM) - Congratulations to the Class of 2006, and to valedictorian Rob Butts. News items about Dartmouth’s commencement proceedings, ongoing today, are here. Elie Wiesel’s remarks are here….
Your Entertainment for the Next Twenty-Two Minutes (10:12 AM) - Family Guy creator (and voice of most of the principal characters) Seth MacFarlane gave a hilarious Class Day address at Harvard last week, using his own voice and that of Peter, Stewie, and Quagmire. Excellent stuff….
The Very Latest on Iran (09:24 AM) - The lede in an Agence France-Presse dispatch this morning goes like this:TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has said it would not compromise on its nuclear “rights”, but asserted it was still studying an international proposal that demands a freeze of sensitive…
Oll Korrect (08:51 AM) - The Associated Press reports: “Witness Says U.S. Troops Beat Al-Zarqawi After Bombing”…
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Home (01:02 PM) - I am back in the Garden State, and slow blogging now begins. I’ll be in Washington, DC on Sunday and Monday, and then back to Jersey for a brief shore interlude. Et puis, Hanover encore fois….
The Fix Is In (05:30 AM) - William Creeley at The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: “Fix In at Colgate, Dartmouth?”…
Friday, June 09, 2006
Hanover Police Department Zealously Searched A.D. (07:54 PM) - The new facts uncovered by The Dartmouth seem to indicate as much. Evidently the whole-house search, attended by more than a dozen officers, sledgehammers, an unlimited search warrant, a sealing of the evidence, and a lie told by a police…
Hooah. (07:32 PM) - In the confusion after Zarqawi’s killing, the United States today conducted forty raids in an effort to dismantle the Zarqman network….
Zarqawi Suffered (05:35 PM) - Reuters reports that the terrorist survived the initial strike, and tried to escape from a stretcher, but died soon thereafter….
Beating the Heavens in JPEG Format (04:17 PM) - I took a Bible-as-literature course this past Spring. And you can imagine my surprise when I learned that, in Paul’s second epistle to the Thessalonians, he advised the ragtag Christians: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that…
Police Raid Alpha Delta (01:21 PM) - The Associated Press reports:HANOVER, N.H. —Police in Hanover (New Hampshire) raided the Dartmouth College fraternity that inspired the movie “Animal House,” but wouldn’t say why. Authorities arrested one student for drug possession but said that was not the focus of…
Concerns about Zarqawi’s Intactness (01:16 PM) - TigerHawk speculates that the terrorist Zarqawi, whose face in photographs released by CENTCOM is clean and undamaged (except for the death part), may have died as American soldiers did from Zarqawi’s roadside bombs: by shockwave. E-MAIL:He was also cleaned up…
al Jazeera’s Value as a News Agency (09:11 AM) - Roger Alford at Opinio Juris has drawn the short straw. He is the poor, woe betide soul to subject himself to al Jazeera’s coverage of the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Just to see, I suppose, if…
Are you Fafnir? No? Look closer. There! You were Fafnir all along. (08:56 AM) - The incredibly strange Fafblog is back on the air, and stranging up the Internet like no one else….
Equal Protection for Mutants (08:51 AM) - Law student Ivan Ludner considers whether our laws are properly equipped to deal with mutants….
Bush on the Rebound (08:38 AM) - In a free feature this morning, the Wall Street Journal analyzes the latest Harris poll, which has Bush on a rebound from what was the lowest point in his presidency. What’s more, the poll was conducted before Abu Musab al…
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Iran Starts Enrichment on Day Incentive Package Presented (09:58 PM) - The fellows at Vital Perspective have obtained the latest IAEA report on Iran. The news is not good—for anyone….
Who Needs Books? (03:30 PM) - Carol Iannone at National Review Online:The percentages of young people who are readers of literature have greatly declined in the past twenty years, according to the recent NEA report, Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, available…
Walter Mossberg Reviews the $1099 MacBook (01:19 PM) - The MacBook is Apple’s new line of consumer-level laptops. I’ve been thinking of getting one. Don’t tell anyone in my family, or I’ll be shunned. Walter Mossberg reviews them today in the Wall Street Journal. The review only made me…
CENTCOM Footage of Airstrike on Zarqawi Safe House (01:03 PM) - Power Line Video has it. UPDATE: Click here to see one photograph provided by the military of a dead Zarqawi….
Elected Representatives Extend Own Terms (12:26 PM) - Over at the Campus Magazine Online blog, Colin Sharkey reports:In a surprise vote, the House of Representatives has unanimously agreed to postpone the November 2006 elections until “some time next year.” When asked by media officials if the justification behind…
Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki Announces Zarqawi’s Death (12:11 PM) -
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Dead (03:35 AM) - This is about the fourth time that this rumor has gone through the mill, but it also seems to be the most serious. AP moved an alert just past three o’clock eastern this morning that the head of al Qaeda…
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
CA-50: Republicans Win Another Bellwether…
…Which Again Ceases to be a bellwether (05:35 PM) - Bruce Kessler: “The Democrats’ defeat is even more than it appears.” I don’t know about that. All I know about CA-50 is that it is merely the latest in a long line of elections during which we are told if…
Number Four, Professor Volokh (05:33 PM) - Eugene Volokh reports: “Holocaust-Denying Atheist Candidate for Alabama Attorney General Gets 43.5% of the Primary Vote” and offers some commentary….
“Can Tough Grades Be Fair Grades?” (01:31 PM) - Grade deflation at Boston University?…
Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow (11:34 AM) - AP reports:Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course….
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
ACTA Asks for the Election Back, Please (07:45 PM) - I have not yet made note of it on Dartblog, but the Washington-based 501(c)(3) American Council of Trustees and Alumni have called for the indefinitely-postponed elections to be reinstated. Here is a post at the National Review on the topic….
A Quick Link and a Slightly-Less-Quick Review (05:29 PM) - A note for readers who come here for the latest on Dartmouth governance issues—I have set up this page, which looks just like Dartblog.com but which displays only the latest posts about Dartmouth. Some of the more important posts, starting…
Patrick Kennedy: “I’m on my knees thanking God that I didn’t hurt somebody.” (10:45 AM) - “Frankly, I didn’t know how miserable I was until I started feeling better,” Representative Kennedy said as he gave an inspiring address at Brown University. See, because Kennedys have to obey neither the law of the United States nor the…
Monday, June 05, 2006
Someone Call the Webster Folks (01:14 PM) - To the left is a snapshot of the front page of the online magazine Slate today. The spotlit article is this one, written by John Dickerson and Dahlia Lithwick, advocating that…someone…be tried in an Iraqi Court for the Haditha deaths….
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Why We Fight (A Very Subtle Sunday Reminder) (07:06 PM) -
England Reconsiders Its Flag (06:41 PM) - Genuflecting to the politically-calculated outrage of European Muslims, British corporations, pubs, and even some government agencies are taking down the Cross of St. George, because the “Muslim community” has determined that “the red cross in the England flag symbolizes the…
Limbaugh, Hannity, Country Make Room for Rap on A.F.R.S. (06:25 PM) - Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer writes that radio consulting firm Lund Media Research has recommend to the Armed Forces Radio Service—the network to which deployed American soldiers listen for a touch of home—should dispense with conservative talk radio hosts…
Another Islamist Terror Plot Interdicted (09:50 AM) - This time in Canada, fiercely anti-Iraq War but a free nation nonetheless and therefore prey for this evil ideology. The story is too familiar. 1) Foreign policy is not the provocation; liberty is. 2) Twelve young angry Muslim men—Canadian citizens,…
Sunday Morning — Shattuck Observatory (08:09 AM) -
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Matthew Yglesias and Preemptive Warfare (Plus: Charles Schumer and Daggers) (10:19 PM) - Left-of-center commentator Matt Yglesias went to the beach last weekend. There, his dog fought and destroyed a crab—a crab which had absolutely nothing to do with September 11th. He or his girlfriend took video, available here. UPDATE: Alright, snark aside,…
This President Is Out of Touch with the American People (12:48 PM) - Why are the president’s weekly radio addresses still offered only in Real Audio format?…
Lacrosse Notes (11:38 AM) - Three Dartmouth men—Jamie Coffin, Brad Heritage, and Ryan Danehy—have been taken at the major league lacrosse draft. So were three Dukies….
Friday, June 02, 2006
Bush promoting ban on gay marriage (08:55 PM) - The president would like to shore up his base, but doesn’t this just look like manufactured sand?…
Peru Votes (08:37 PM) - …and chooses between a socialist and a generalissimo….
Greenpeace Accidently Defines Itself (06:55 PM) - One can scarcely imagine the considerable mental hoops through which the Greenpeace activist must hurl himself in order to hold the party-line, which is that nuclear energy is nothing less than inhuman devilry. Or perhaps no hoops at all are…
Men’s Lacrosse To Return to Duke (06:27 PM) - According to this ABC News report, Duke University officials will hold a press conference Monday and there will announce that Duke men will once again be permitted to play lacrosse. The team was slashed and the men slimed after rape…
Juan Cole Denied at Yale (11:36 AM) - Scott Johnson reports at Power Line that Juan Cole, recently up for a senior professorship in the history of the Middle East at Yale, has been voted down by Yale’s Senior Appointments Committee; a rather rare move, from what I…
The Intern’s Underpants (08:58 AM) - Scott Adams runs into trouble with the censors….
…and they give up the game (08:35 AM) - My attention is called to this post at the Little Green Blog, a blog written by Dartmouth leftists including Andrew Seal, the editor-in-chief of the liberal Dartmouth Free Press. Andrew recently joined with Dartmouth Review editor-in-chief Dan Linsalata to oppose…
Huzaah for Kate Close (12:30 AM) - A thirteen-year-old New Jersey girl, Katharine Close, defeated 14-year-old Canadian Finola Mei Hwa Hackett for the national championship in spelling English words. Kate is from Spring Lake. Swell. HER WORD: Ursprache….
Thursday, June 01, 2006
A Self-Fulfilling Policy From the Department of Homeland Security (09:52 PM) - Here’s a document to boil your blood. [PDF] It is something that the United States Department of Homeland Security produced, as it does for each city. It is an asset-based threat assessment. This is the one for the city of…
Happy June (04:13 PM) -
“Keep It Real In ‘06” (07:43 AM) - I think everyone can find something to laugh at in this George W. Bush rap parody….