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DOJ Defends Telephony Metadata Program in SDNY 27 Aug 2013 | 08:28 am
Readers following EPIC’s petition at the Supreme Court seeking review of the government’s telephony metadata program will be interested in this memorandum DOJ filed today in support of dismissing a co...
Time to Stop Using “Hobbit” as an Insult 27 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
Two years ago, John McCain derided “Tea Party hobbits.” Now Tulane University assistant dean Jim Letten is using the same insult against conservative “guerrilla journalist” James O’Keefe: Former U.S....
Origins of the English Militia 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
David Hume’s's The History of England (1778) tells the story of the Danish conquest of England. (vol. 1, chapter 2 “The Anglo-Saxons”). After a series of wars, the Danes drove King Alfred off the th...
Broken Telephone 27 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
A recent post at Reason‘s Hit & Run (a blog I generally much like), says the following: Playing StarCraft can boost problem solving and creative thinking, according to a new study by researchers at Q...
Human Rights Watch’s Homepage Features… 27 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
So President Assad has apparently attacked civilians with chemical weapons, killing hundreds and injuring more. The Egyptian government has slaughtered hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, who i...
Public Ignorance About Crime Rates 27 Aug 2013 | 03:42 am
CNN recently published an interesting article about how most of the public believes that violent crime is rising, despite the fact that it has actually fallen dramatically over the last twenty years: ...
Intermediate Scrutiny bleg 27 Aug 2013 | 03:31 am
What law review articles, treatises, etc., do readers recommend for someone who wants to understand the nuances of intermediate scrutiny? Not theoretical articles about whether I.S. is a good or bad i...
Saving Education Costs for Law Students — 2+3 Instead of 4+3 or 4+2? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
I blogged below about why I’m skeptical of claims that law school should be shortened to two years; I think there’s a lot for business lawyers to learn, and it’s hard to fit all that into two years, e...
Reducing Law School to Two Years? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
Some people have argued that law school should be reduced from three years to two; President Obama has really endorsed this view. Such a reduction, the theory goes, will substantially reduce costs (wh...
Why the Government Doesn’t Know What Documents Snowden Copied 26 Aug 2013 | 06:50 am
A lot of folks have wondered how the U.S. government couldn’t know what documents Edward Snowden illegally copied, and this AP story suggests an answer: The U.S. government’s efforts to determine whi...
