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COULD BUSH STIFF THE SENATE DEMOCRATS WITH RECESS APPOINTMENTS TO THE FEDERAL BENCH ?

An analysis of the history of recess appointments by the Federalist Society

ZENPUNDIT READS CJR

I recommend taking a look at the latest issue of The Columbia Journalism Review – not because it doesn’t hew to the sort of self-congratulatory, urban-yuppie-hipster, smug brand of superficial liberalism that irritates most of America ( it does) – but in spite of that kind of posing the magazine delivers some very interesting articles that are both informative and enlightening. I recommend ” Little Murders ” on the death of op-ed illustration – though ironically the website has neglected to post the censored art displayed in the paper copy of the magazine.

Conservatives will have fun with the articles on internal debate among journalists whether or not they should hire armed bodyguards or carry firearms in anarchic war zones or wander about randomly, relying on the goodwill of their fellow men. ( Note that a couple of these media characters decided to joyride with the Iraqi resistance fighters and almost had their heads blown off by an American soldier…who I’m sure would have been court-martialed and had his life ruined had that happened )

DO OUR ELITE UNIVERSITIES ACTUALLY TEACH ANYTHING USEFUL ?

The Harvard and Yale of Japan are the former Imperial universities of Tokyo and Kyoto, graduates of which have, in effect, a virtual ticket into the elite of the government and corporate worlds. These schools are exceedingly difficult for prospective students to get into but once there, the experience is relatively undemanding compared with the absolute rigor of Japanese secondary education. The opposite of America where an often middling public school system is capped by the greatest and most challenging university system on earth that gives it’s graduates unparalelled skills…or does it ?

A University of Chicago prof debunks some widespread myths about the mission of a top tier American university.

EXCELLENT ANALYSIS OF PADILLA-HAMDI CASES

By Phil Carter over at Intel Dump – I’m almost entirely in agreement with his reasoning. go read it !

JOHN LEO ON THE ” BUSH IS HITLER ” PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSESSION OF THE LEFT

Leo’s column actually predated Moveon.org’s increasingly sizable Third Reich filmfest