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9 May, 2008 8:20 am
Does anybody have a good idea of what the political prospects are for First Circuit nominee William Smith? He was once chief of staff for Chafee; does that make him more acceptable ... consideration: Does that seat "belong" to Rhode Island? If not, and if
Smith has no chance because Rhode Island Dems won't allow him ... the appropriate number of appellate confirmations by giving them
noncontroversial folks like Agee, the Virginia Conrad, and either WIlliam Smith or a substitute like
LaPlante. read more
18 Mar 8:42 am
William Smith, a federal district judge in Rhode Island, and unrelated to me except that he is my
younger brother (in fact, the tie he is wearing in the picture looks suspiciously familiar) pushes federal, state and local police to record interrogations. I may be missing something,
but I don't see why police should not record interrogations, at least of suspects in custody. It is a low cost way of verifying who said what. Indeed, if you made recording such
interviews a standard practice, ...
12 Aug, 2007 10:01 pm
We are thrilled to welcome William Birdthistle as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. William
teaches at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he specializes in business organizations and securities regulation. He also has done his share of guest blogging at Volokh Conspiracy and
Prawfsblawg (who can find a link on that site?!), and he was a participant in the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Forum in 2005, when he was still an associate at Ropes & Gray.
Welcome, William!
27 Feb, 2008 9:19 pm
Busy day today, but I couldn't let it pass without some acknowledgment of William F. Buckley's death. I read a fair amount of Buckley's writing
during college, law school, and for a few years thereafter. And I recently rediscovered him in ... to Established Nonbelief, which devotes a chapter to Buckley's God and Man at Yale:
The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom" (1951). Much has been written today about William Buckley, so I will offer only a simple tribute: my
life would be poorer without him.
22 Aug 11:04 am
... language the exact point Ben himself makes above. The manna part of Ben's post is the end, where he quotes Adam Smith in referring to not
expecting copyright industry executives to act any differently than the sole pursuit of profit: By pursuing ... a balanced or effective copyright, the copyright industries are
inadvertently promoting such balance and such effective laws. Adam Smith's theory was that "individuals were led in the pursuit of their own
self-interest by an invisible hand to pursue the ...
25 Oct 11:01 pm
William Birdthistle is back for a second guest blogging stint, and we are hoping to twist his arm to write a few things about Jones v. Harris,
the Investment Company Act case that will be argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 2. Given his past blogging on this case, something tells me we won't have to twist too hard.
Welcome back, William!
9 Nov, 2006 10:32 am
... bribe in exchange for giving a lenient sentence to two swindlers, then lied in subsequent sworn testimony about the incident. The case involved two brothers, Frank and Thomas
Romano, who had been convicted in 1980 on 21 counts of racketeering. Together with attorney William Borders Jr., Hastings, who presided over
the Romanos' case, hatched a plot to solicit a bribe from the brothers. In exchange for a $150,000 cash payment to him, Hastings would return some $845,000 of their $1.2 million in ...
4 Dec, 2007 4:34 pm
... Rhode Island shore. It's not realistic; it's the movies, but at least no guy has to die to make the ladies feel good. The movie is worth seeing just for the great scenes of
unpretentious New England shoreline. I would tell you more, but I don't want to ruin the mild suspense of the plot. Yes, it is sweet and cute, but not disgustingly so. My notoriously
hard to impress 11 year old thought it was funny. I asked William, "did you like it?" "Yeah," he said. Trust me, this is a very positive
review.
2 Jan, 2008 6:29 pm
I overheard this conversation fragment between my 4 year old Mark and my 11 year old William: W: "A living thing? Well, an ant is a living
thing, a dog is a living thing, a man is a living thing . A living thing moves by itself . . . " M: "Is a fan a living thing?" W: "No, a fan only moves because electricity makes it
move. A living thing has organs. Like your tummy. Your tummy is an organ. Your brain is an organ. Your eye is an organ. Unless of course it's a fake eye." Meanwhile, while ...
9 Jun, 2008 5:37 pm
... you get in their place, as anyone in Zimbabwe can tell you. TWTSTB movie sympathizes with the communists in the IRA, but thank goodness they didn't win the revolution and the
liberal nationalists did. (FWIW Sir Edgar Williams, who was Warden of Rhodes House when I was at Oxford, was part of the British delegation when the government of Rhodesia was
handed over to Mugabe when Zimbabwe was created. I was treated to a longish description by Sir Edgar of the solidity of Hon. Mugabe and all that. In ...
8 Sep, 2008 7:01 pm
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
22 Oct, 2008 8:03 pm
We rely on Glenn for this sort of thing! Sci Fi, alternative history, and disaster preparedness, fictional and otherwise. It's called The Rift. I bought it, started it, and it seemed
pretty good, but then I got distracted.
14 Apr 5:25 am
Here. Both Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig are very competent philosophers. In the case of Plantinga, a lot more than competent. And
maybe Craig too, I'm not sure about him. For Wilkinson to breezily dismiss them both with an 'of course none of their arguments are any good' just means he is not someone to be taken
seriously. I doubt very much, indeed I am at least as certain (I bet) as Wilkinson is that there is no God, that Wilkinson has not worked his way through Warranted Christian ...
23 Aug 8:35 am
Money can help. LWJ, William and I had a special dinner at Ruth's Chris on Friday night. I had the Rib Eye, rare. I think it made me happy.
13 Sep 3:11 pm
... out something true and also something most voters probably care more about (not paying for the health care of illegal immigrants) than they do about this rather minor offense
against the dignity of our young president. It has the flavor of William Tell or whoever it was who refused to doff his hat to the Prince who
was riding by. Sure, the 20 percent that is still enthused about Obama will love the visuals of Wilson standing in the well of the House getting dressed down, but I think most people
...
16 Sep 4:22 pm
So ruled the U.S. Tax Court yesterday in the case of William Halby, a New York tax attorney who claimed that the amounts he spent on, let's
call them personal-gratification-related books and materials, and also numerous professional intimate-therapy service providers, were "medical expenses" that he could deduct under
Section 213 of the Internal Revenue Code. Sure, at first glance this may seem entirely reasonable. Section 213(d)(1) defines "medical care" as amounts paid not only for diagnosis ...
15 Nov 4:59 pm
If there is a movie about the end of the world, I have to see it, so I did not resist when William suggested we take in 2012 this afternoon. I
was not disappointed, but bear in mind I was expecting it to be not only spectacular but profoundly stupid. It was both. It seems due do an astronomical alignment, our sun had begun
emitting mutated neutrinos, which, instead of passing through the earth harmlessly, started to heat up the earth's core to unsupportable temperatures. Someone had perhaps not ...
7 Feb, 2007 1:31 pm
A seemingly simple gesture of inclusion has set off fierce debate at one of the nation's oldest public universities. In October 2006, College of William and Mary President Gene Nichol decided a cross should be removed from permanent display in the Williamsburg, Virginia university's Wren Chapel.
According to the Washington Times, ...
7 Mar, 2007 12:40 pm
Officials at the College of William and Mary have reached a compromise to return a cross to the school's Wren Chapel. Display of the cross, and
the role of religion at public institutions in general, became the center of a heated debate among students, faculty, staff and alumni when President ...
13 Feb, 2008 11:45 am
The College of William & Mary announced this weekend that it will not renew President Gene Nichol's contract later this year. Yesterday
Nichol released a moving statement defending the actions which led to his untimely departure. The most noteworthy was his 2006 decision to remove a cross from permanent display in the
public college's Wren [...]
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