Politics can be a dirty game. There are some shots that I wish weren’t taken. Sometimes, though, an attack can be brutal, personal, distasteful, and still be within the bounds of acceptable discourse. Criticizing your opponent for where he chose to treat his 5-year old daughter’s malignant brain tumor is not one of them. The offender is Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), facing a tough re-election fight against retired Admiral Joe Sestak. As of today, Weldon has not apologized. This might be the...

We might disagree on affirmative action. But we can agree that if we are going to have it (and I for one think we should), a minority shouldn’t be excluded from the program just because they’re conservative.

Best divorce filing. Ever. [PDF]. I especially like the pictures. And the random font size changes and underlining. H/T: Wings and Vodka.

A Debate Link double shot on immigration. First, a response to Texas Representative Ron Paul regarding birth right citizenship. Second, a post on why we have to hold the line against anti-immigrant backlash now–or face dire consequences later on. Enjoy!

Spencer Overton wants to know: If you were given one billion dollars to spend on eradicating racial disparities in America, how would you spend it? What would be the most efficient way to reduce disparities over the next 25 years? I don’t know the answer, because I’m not sure the problem is monetary. But I’m sure he’d welcome your contribution over at BlackProf.

Tom DeLay, the man who made political moderation in America virtually impossible, the man who never saw a civil piece of discourse he didn’t try to undermine, the man who is a one-man show of all that is soulless and wrong in American politics, is “retiring”. Good riddance. America is better off without him.

Like an A-10 Warthog providing close-in air support. Great post on women in the Air Force. See also this report about the first Pakistani female pilots.

A few months back, I wrote a series of posts decrying liberal bigotry. It’s a very bad thing, and something that needs to be fought against. But it is nowhere near as viscerally scary as when the right lets its prejudices show.

Somepeople are asserting that a resolution calling for international law on war, detention, and torture to be upheld intrudes on political questions. What has this nation come to?

Black people “go wild”, individual White persons commit isolated crimes. Black people obstruct law enforcement with the call to “stop snitchin’”, White people assert their fundamental rights to “not talk on the advice of my attorney.” Does this trouble you? It should–and with one of the most shocking cases of racial violence in years currently on the media pages, it’s time stop the double-standard.

If you are knowledgable about what law and graduate schools are strong in race theory, whiteness theory, or Jewish theory, please drop me a line at The Debate Link.

The Heterosexual Hemispheres Act of 2006.

“…all you’d have to do is say ‘truck.’” The Texas ethics commission (motto: We’d Be Really Busy If It Wasn’t Hopeless) has decided that the new state law demanding disclosure of gifts over $250 doesn’t require that the candidate state the value of the gift. So a gift of $300 or $300,000 could both be just labeled “cash.” H/T: Lindsay “bling bling” “da cheddah” and “swag” Beyerstein

Actually, it is proof that democratizing Iraq was a feasible goal–one that we’ve utterly bombed of course (no pun intended).

Who can spot what might be wrong with this passage? Senate Bill 1138 would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for sex offenders who are convicted twice of raping a child younger than 11. South Carolina would join Louisiana as the only states that allow the death penalty for crimes other than murder. Currently in South Carolina, murder is the only crime eligible for the death penalty. If South Carolina would become one of two states that allow the death penalty for crimes other than murder,...

Anyone who read The Case of the Speluncean Explorers in Law School (or, as in my case, as an undergrad) will appreciate Legal Fiction’s re-enactment using the Afghani Christian Convert case.

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” –Henry Kissenger. Small stakes or not, if you peek inside the department office, you’ll see knives on the table and blood on the floor.

With race in the media, it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

One of my roommates is making me watch “The O’Reilly Factor.” He’s not impressive. But when it went to commercial, I was informed “this show is brought to you by Waste Management,” my local garbage collection company. Irony amongst the Fox producers? Or just proof there is a God?

College security teams are using Facebook to investigate their students. Sketchy, or fair use?

Kobe Bryant: Soon to be Jew? The Jerusalem Post has the scoop. But did it have to end with this line? But Bryant dispelled the notion of replacing Schayes as the greatest Jewish basketball player of all-time. “I don’t know if I’m converting, but if I do, you can definitely add another athlete to the pool,” he said. And if he does, that’s one tip-off Bryant won’t be too excited about. Ouch!

What questions are “appropriate” for judicial nominees has become a contentious issue throughout the Alito and Roberts hearings. A recent article published in the Yale Law Journal’s online supplement argues that we should focus on asking how the nominee would have decided past cases. I provide commentary and analysis back at my own blog. But really interesting stuff.

Cross-Posted To The Debate Link Probably a foolish one, but whatever–and we’re on the topic in my Constitutional Law class, so may as well address it now. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution reads, in part, that “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.” This clause, as far as I understand it, was meant to overrule the Supreme Court’s decision in Barron v. City of Baltimore, 32 U.S....

Wouldn’t this be neat? I sure wouldn’t mind my very own warp drive. H/Ts: Bainbridge & Reynolds, LLP.

Here’s a thought experiment: What’s the difference between Israeli Jews and Iraqi Shiites?