Monday, October 16, 2006
The Vice President’s Fan Club (11:23 PM) - Mark Leibovich composes one of the unlikeliest articles the New York Times will ever publish:Grace Mosier lives with her mom and dad, goes to birthday parties, takes ballet classes and is just like a lot of other 6-year- old girls….
Durham-in-Wonderland (08:04 PM) - K.C. Johnson provides an eagle’s eye view of the Duke Lacrosse situation….
Why the Constitution Will Fail (06:22 PM) - At the Volokh Conspiracy this morning, Todd Zywicki posted an update on the constitution battle. Scrolling through the many comments, I noted this gem from Walker White, who has already voted ‘no’ on the constitution:What gets me is this: who…
New Dartmouth Constitution Video (09:47 AM) - Via the Volokh Conspiracy, this hilarious video….
Hillary Clinton Should Make This Man Her Economic Advisor (08:49 AM) - At the Washington Monthly’s blog, leftist Jacob Hacker begins laying the foundation for a Democratic economic policy for 2008: But here’s the kicker: We can provide security and help our economy. Just as businessmen and entrepreneurs are protected against the…
A Travesty in the Making (08:39 AM) - Elements of the Duke University Lacrosse team, most of whom, one imagines, will at the expense of the State of North Carolina be very rich men in ten years or so, appeared on 60 Minutes last evening to plead their…
And Elsewhere in the Ivy League… (08:31 AM) - The Daily Princetonian discovers that it was “the Order of the Bull’s Blood,” a Rutgers secret society, that outrageously stole a Princeton cannon in 1875. Seeing as Rutgers is the big brother of that foolish upstart Princeton, and seeing as…
Not The Worst Class Ever (08:27 AM) - The Dartmouth: “During the halftime break of the match, Giaccone estimated that 12 Dartmouth freshmen rushed the field, a number he described as ‘high.’”…
More on that Security Council Resolution on North Korea (08:25 AM) - Julian Ku at Opinio Juris suspects there is less to the resolution than meets the eye. The fact that Beijing has flippantly declared that one key paragraph of the resolution does not apply to it could be one clue….