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Althouse - Oct 29, 2008
Manolo tells us what makes shoes glamorous, what makes Manolo glamorous, how to make the glamorous conversation, and so forth. Manolo keeps himself glamorous in part by hiding his real persona. But I suspect he's a …
Also tagged: law, death, shoes, lawyers, john roberts, george washington, suicide, aging, aesthetics, manolo
Althouse - Oct 28, 2008
Lawprof (and Federalist Society co-founder) Steven Calabresi has a WSJ op-ed titled "Obama's 'Redistribution Constitution'": [That the new President will appoint many federal judges, including, probably, at least one …
Also tagged: law, poverty, economics, partisanship, steven calabresi
Althouse - Oct 25, 2008
The first one uses, nearly verbatim, the text written back here by the commenter known as David: Prof. Althouse is voting for Senator Obama because: She agrees with him on the substantive issues more than she agrees …
Also tagged: blogging, voting, obama, emotional althouse, david the commenter
Althouse - Oct 22, 2008
From the transcript of yesterday's Rush Limbaugh show: Isn't this, by the way, the Colin Powell who was first appointed to a big job by Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan? Wasn't it Ronald Reagan who pinned the four …
Also tagged: law, rush limbaugh, tom brokaw, colin powell, obama, partisanship, racial politics
Althouse - Oct 18, 2008
Collected by N. Stephan Kinsella (via Metafilter). The list is excellent -- reminds me of one of my all-time favorite books: Flaubert's "Dictionary of Accepted Ideas." The list is also pretty long, so let me select a …
Also tagged: shakespeare, books, language, comedy, dogs
Althouse - Oct 16, 2008
It's Chief Justice John Roberts, dissenting from a denial of certiorari: "Narcotics Strike Force, North Philly, May 4, 2001. Officer Sean Devlin, Narcotics Strike Force, was working the morning shift. Undercover …
Also tagged: drugs, law, writing, crime, john roberts
Althouse - Oct 15, 2008
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Bartlett v. Strickland, an important voting rights case: Christopher G. Browning Jr., North Carolina’s solicitor general, defended the decision of officials there to …
Also tagged: law, voting, voting rights, breyer
Althouse - Oct 14, 2008
Instapundit gives lukewarm agreement -- "we should probably include women, too. Seems only fair" -- and links to this report: But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr …
Also tagged: law, military, mccain, instapundit, gender politics, feminism, obama, gender difference
Althouse - Oct 13, 2008
1. Tell him about our 2 Italian-American Supreme Court Justices, Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito Jr. 2. Call attention to our Italian-American Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and joke -- in Nancy's presence -- …
Also tagged: music, italy, pelosi, bush, alito, berlusconi, financial markets, scalia, 4 seasons
Althouse - Oct 6, 2008
Come on, talk. I'll meet up with you later. I'm going to go listen to Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute talk about what sort of judges we might expect a President Obama/McCain to appoint. The event is down the hall …
Also tagged: law, photography, law school, cafe, plants