Mea Maxima Culpa
As regular readers know, I am a fan of beautiful women, most notably my wife, but extending also to contestants in the Miss Universe and Miss World competitions, who I think deserve considerable respect. So, when I miss the occasional conjunction between politics and pulchritude, readers are likely to notice.
Hence this email, received today [...]
Scientists behaving badly
My friend Steven Hayward is the author of The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order and the concluding volume published this year The Age of Reagan, 1980-1989: The Conservative Counterrevolution.
Steve is also the author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. The fourteenth edition of [...]
The Walpin pretext
Under the traditional law of employment discrimination, an employee alleging illegal termination can make out a prima facie case by alleging his membership in a protected class and adequate performance of his job. To rebut the prima facie case, an employer need only explain the termination by producing evidence of a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason [...]
Extradition Indecision - Obamic Options 005
John Hinderaker adds a chilling but disturbingly plausible appendix to the end of a Power Line post by Scott “Big Johnson” Trunk. The post examines the likely effects of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high-profile terrorists in civilian court; at the end, Scott wonders why President Barack H. Obama is so determined to [...]
Trying KSM: Why? part 2
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania last year during the campaign, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the “principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for any reason [...]
The Loin in Winter
John Hinderaker went on to major in philosophy as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, but I believe it was Hugh Hefner who awakened John’s interest in philosophy. Before Wittgenstein, there was Hef. In “Perjury penumbra,” John spoke for both of us when he wrote:
For those who don’t remember, Hefner’s “Playboy Philosophy” was a monthly [...]
