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I'm off to visit Carleton this weekend (Friday -- Tuesday). Then I'm going to Chicago on Wednesday, moving in, driving to Milwaukee ...

ABC has put up excerpts of Charlie Gibson's interview with McCain VP nominee Sarah Palin. It's essentially all about foreign policy...

Republicans, obviously. But does anyone else? Rasmussen polling indicates the answer is "not really". Amongst all voters, she...

Some folks at TMV asked about whether homeless people have the right to vote, given that they don't have a home (and thus, perhaps, a pe...

A large organization representing Haredi (i.e., ultra-orthodox) Jews in Israel has come up with guidelines for "kosher" music . Mu...

I admit that the only reason I got a Dell for law school is because Chicago told me to (and my old computer broke). But, after having experi...

I bet Hans loves this one : The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is pla...

On the noble adverb : Yet somewhere in the past decade or so, the adverb has fallen out of style. Become passé. They’re too flowery, too squ...

I had to delete PG's very kind words about my blog from the "about" section. Unfortunately, now that I'm going to law sch...

It's a circuit judge in Key West, so it doesn't have state-wide applicability, but a judge has just ruled that Florida's gay ado...

The Large Hadron Collider was turned on today , and despite the concerns of some "skeptics", the world did not end. Which I'm ...

Another Georgia Republican -- this time the House candidate running against perpetually-endangered Democratic Jim Marshall -- called a Black...

They don't quite put it in the headline, but the Washington Post basically ran a front-page article today calling Sarah Palin a liar: F...

Hey all. As I prepare to start law school, I'm doing a bit of traveling, and a lot of packing. As a result, I'm going to put the civ...

A Black member of a dance troupe on (of all things) an international goodwill tour was forced to dance by Israeli security upon arriving at...

Neat story in The Forward : one of Michelle Obama's cousins is a Black Jewish rabbi. Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the B...

Mississippi Governor and noted corrupt maniac Haley Barbour (R) has decided to place the Mississippi Senate special election at the bottom ...

CNN has an interesting profile on the new superintendent of DC schools, Michelle Rhee . Now, I'm not enough of an education expert to kn...

Obama hits back at Sarah Palin , who derisively attacked Obama in her convention speech for being "worried that someone won't read ...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The US Supreme Court is asking for briefs on whether it should rehear the Kennedy v. Louis...