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Tenacious Muse: May 2015
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Friday, May 22, 2015. Beating a Dead Horse: The Student Disengagement Myth and Real-Life Impact. Just to poke Mark Bauerline. With a stick one more time:. As my friend Steve Saideman. Pointed out in his response to Bauerline's piece, the argument relies largely on "anecdata" - individual observations (why aren't there students lined up in the hall of the English department at UCLA? 8226; At a subsequent retirement dinner, three rec...
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Monthly Archives: July 2015. Brief follow-up on the previous post. July 21, 2015. One thing I didn’t mention in my post about calls to lift the gun carry ban on military bases is the little-discussed link between guns and suicide. This is important, because the military has, since the start of our recent … Continue reading →. Congress eyes interesting experiment re gun violence. July 19, 2015. Facial challenges and the Fourth Amendment. July 11, 2015. The prayers of both could not be answered. In the run...
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Monthly Archives: June 2015. Thoughts on the threat to American democracy. June 27, 2015. The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is being praised both for its practical outcome — making same-sex marriage, like opposite-sex marriage, a constitutionally-protected “fundamental right” — and for Justice Kennedy’s warm language celebrating and defending marriage: No union … Continue reading →. It's Okay To Be Smart. Married To The Sea. Lawyers and Law Blogs. Lawyers Guns and Money.
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Facial challenges and the Fourth Amendment. Brief follow-up on the previous post →. Congress eyes interesting experiment re gun violence. July 19, 2015. Some members of Congress have proposed. Allowing soldiers to carry weapons on base:. Congressional leaders said Friday they will direct the Pentagon to allow troops to carry guns on base for personal protection. As noted above, currently servicemembers are generally not allowed to carry weapons on base, except under certain limited circumstances. Gun...
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The prayers of both could not be answered. Congress eyes interesting experiment re gun violence →. Facial challenges and the Fourth Amendment. July 11, 2015. My friend Matt Price (a filmmaker here in L.A. — check out trailers for his latest horror-comedy. Sent me this interesting Volokh Conspiracy post-mortem. Los Angeles v. Patel. The idea here is that one can determine whether a facial or as-applied challenge is appropriate by determining which government actor is bound by the relevant clause. For this...
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Tenacious Muse: March 2015
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Musings and thoughts that just won't go away - so I write them down here. Monday, March 23, 2015. The Challenge of Scientific 'Controversies'. I wrote a little over a month ago about the use of the term "research". In public arguments over science. I argued at the time, and still maintain, that people often claim to have done "research" when what they really mean is that they have (very selectively) read other people's research. Of course, many of those who try to stir up "controversy" on scientific subj...
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A brief Thanksgiving meditation. November 26, 2015. One night in the week following the attacks on Paris, Los Angeles had a small windstorm. It wasn’t an emergency, by any means, but at one point the winds got fast and violent enough to shake the thin, loose windows of … Continue reading →. Brief follow-up on the previous post. July 21, 2015. Congress eyes interesting experiment re gun violence. July 19, 2015. Facial challenges and the Fourth Amendment. July 11, 2015. My friend Matt Price (a filmmaker he...
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April | 2015 | The Handsome Camel
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Monthly Archives: April 2015. April 28, 2015. I have more thoughts on presidents, war, and voting that I hope to get to soon. But at the moment the eruption of violence in Baltimore seems more urgent. On Sunday I posted this well-intentioned Mic article to Facebook: On … Continue reading →. Insert tired Douglas Adams lizard joke here. April 14, 2015. Ah — the season for browbeating progressives into submission has arrived! You don’t have to hold the hearing until you hold the hearing. April 12, 2015.
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Thoughts on the threat to American democracy. Facial challenges and the Fourth Amendment →. The prayers of both could not be answered. July 4, 2015. In the runup to Independence Day, Sam Goldman argues. At Crooked Timber that the Declaration of Independence loses its force if you leave out God:. Taken together, these statements give a picture of God that is not so easily replaced by an alternative ground for a maximally strong commitment to the right of other people to survive and to govern themselves.
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Monthly Archives: May 2015. The real reason we should put Harriet Tubman on the twenty. May 16, 2015. The group Women on 20s has recently gotten some pretty good press for the idea that Harriet Tubman should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Personally I always favored John Ross for the twenty, just to really stick it … Continue reading →. It's Okay To Be Smart. Married To The Sea. Lawyers and Law Blogs. Lawyers Guns and Money. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giant Midgets. Blog at WordPress.com.
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