TRAVELING WITH your own coffee grinder? That would be taking things too far.
My Capresso grinder, by the way, just quit working the other day. I mean, when you turn it on it makes noises and things go round and round, but somehow no coffee gets ground. I took it apart, cleaned everything and saw no problems, and put it back together, but it still doesn’t work. Maybe I’ll go with that KitchenAid.
SO MUCH FOR THE FIERCE MORAL URGENCY (CONT’D): Indefinite Detention, With Or Without Trial. “So the Obama administration is all for due process, as long as it produces the correct result. Obama already has said that Guantanamo detainees who cannot be successfully tried by military commissions or civilian courts can still be imprisoned indefinitely if they are considered too dangerous to release. Now Johnson is saying that even those who are prosecuted can be kept imprisoned regardless of the verdict. The only point of prosecuting them, it seems, is to create an impression of due process while continuing the Bush detention policies that Obama condemned during the campaign.”
A LOOK AT cyber-security in the United States.
POLITICO: Independents begin to edge away from President Obama. “In a potentially alarming trend for the White House, independent voters are deserting President Barack Obama nationally and especially in key swing states, recent polls suggest.” He ran as different kind of politician than he’s governing as. He hopes to ram through stuff that will cement his position before the rubes catch on. It’ll be close.
STEVE CHAPMAN: The Secret of Palin’s Staying Power: Why Sex Appeal Matters in Politics.
PROTESTS AND GENERAL STRIKE IN IRAN: Michael Ledeen is updating.
HOUSING: The rental market stinks, too.
SO IF THE ATLANTIC’S SALONS ARE ETHICALLY IFFY, WHAT ABOUT THIS? White House Press Corps Spent the Fourth of July Hanging Out With Obama, Off the Record. Or is it just wrong to get cozy with corporate bigshots?
Much of the White House press corps spent the Fourth schmoozing with White House staffers, catching performances by the Foo Fighters and Jimmy Fallon, and watching the fireworks from the most exclusive vantage point in the D.C. metro area, all off the record—not to mention off-the-Facebook and off-the-Twitter. These are the same people who just a week ago were whining in the press briefing about Obama’s malicious and dastardly attempts to “control the press.” . . .
There is a cosmic irony at work here: The party was “closed press.” (Ha!) It was covered, under onerous restrictions, by a pool reporter—the Baltimore Sun’s Paul West. West was ushered in by White House staffers for a mere 40 minutes, so he could record the president’s remarks. He was kept in a pen so that he wouldn’t run amok and interview someone. He shouted questions at Obama as he worked the rope line, which the president ignored. Then he was taken away. West wrote up his blindered account of the party and then e-mailed it to the White House press corps, many of whom were actually at the party, outside of the pen, hanging out with all the other guests. And then, because they had temporarily signed away the right to do their jobs in exchange for facetime with staffers, a few cold Stoudt’s American Pale Ales, and some corn on the cob, their news organizations picked up that pool report and used it to tell their readers what happened at the party. This is how the press covers the White House.
Covers, sucks up to, whatever. Jack Shafer, call your office!
THE ADMINISTRATION WILL BE HAPPY: GMC adds Yukon Denali Hybrid SUV. Too bad hybrid sales are plummeting. Maybe by the time this is out gas prices will have risen.
LONGEVITY UPDATE: Drug extends life: “A study published Wednesday found that rapamycin, a drug used in organ transplants, increased the life span of mice by 9% to 14%, the first definitive case in which a chemical has been shown to extend the life span of normal mammals.” It’s a long way from being a useful anti-aging drug in humans, but it should provide some useful data.
DRINKING while breastfeeding.
JOHN TIERNEY on cats.
IN THE MAIL: A big PR package with a copy of Atlas Shrugged. The press release is headlined: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years.
MICHAEL YON: Girl With No Future.
CLAUDIA ROSETT: A “Reset” with Russia Won’t Cut It.
STIMULUS AS PAYOFF: Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ‘08. “Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election. . . . Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of government disclosure and accounting records shows.”
FUNNY HOW HONESTY STANDARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS seem so much higher than those for other journalists.
GLENN LOURY: Yes we can!
FABIUS MAXIMUS: A new news media emerges for our new world, unseen and unexpected.
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: I didn’t vote for Barack Obama.
Which means, I don’t have to have the scales fall from my eyes over the President’s decision to claim “post-acquittal detention power.” To be sure, I agree with Mark Kleiman (no, that is not a typo) that we can keep prisoners of war for as long as necessary, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Obama Administration is essentially going to engage in show trials when it comes to a lot of the detainees affected by its most recent decision on detainee policy. In the strictest sense, the legal status of the detainees is affected by whether they are found guilty or not-guilty in these trials, but as Kleiman writes, if someone has engaged in warfare against the United States, that person “should be held as long as the conflict lasts, even if that turns out to be forever.” So irrespective of the outcome of a trial, the defendant will remain in prison, and that will mean that many of those trials are going to have no effect whatsoever on the lives of the defendants in question. And that means that the Obama Administration’s guarantee of a fair trial or due process for these defendants is utterly meaningless.
And yet, before the election it was a matter of fierce moral urgency. Plus this: “It looks like Dick Cheney was right. Despite Candidate Obama’s promises, President Obama does not have, and never had any intention whatsoever to give up the powers of the ‘Imperial Presidency.’”
BYRON YORK: AmeriCorps stonewalls questions of White House involvement in IG firing. “A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House’s role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin.”
And I love this:
Investigators asked Trinity whether he was claiming executive privilege, something that could only be authorized by the president. Trinity answered again that it was a White House “prerogative.” When the investigators pointed out that, in the words of one aide, “there is no legal basis whatsoever” for such a claim, Trinity still declined to answer.
Remember the fierce moral urgency of replacing Bush with Obama so we’d see an end to this sort of thing? I do . . . .
PLAIN DEALER REPRESENTATIVE calls bloggers “a bunch of pipsqueaks.” This is so 2002. But anyway, the inevitable conclusion:
We’re just going to ignore the phrase “public journalists,” OK? It’s a bizarre formulation — as opposed to, what, private journalists? — but he probably meant something like “citizen journalists,” and we’ll just mark it down to speaking off the cuff. But why, representative of us readers, is it kind of unfortunate that Schultz gave Jarvis a lot of ink? Back to Diadiun:
“… which I thought was kind of unfortunate because Connie’s column is read by 25- or 30,000 people a month, which has to be many times more than this guy gets on his blog, and she gave him more publicity through that column than he would get on his own anytime.”
Thirty thousand readers a month “has to be many times” what Jarvis gets on his blog? Wait, that sounds like one of those unsourced, unreported assumptions you might get from … from … A BLOGGER! Diadiun actually started to say “is,” but than corrected himself and phrased it “has to be.” That was an admission, however subconscious, that he didn’t have any idea what he was talking about. He was guessing to make his point.
Why is it so common for print people who criticize the low standards of the Web to go on the Web and say and write things they would never say or write in print? Does Diadiun just guess at stuff in his newspaper column?
Since Jarvis has more than 20,000 followers on Twitter, I would guess that Schultz’s 30,000 monthly readers, as reported by Diadiun, do not dwarf Jarvis’ readership. But I don’t like to guess — even in a blog! — so I did something crazy. I got all newspapery and responsible. I asked Jarvis how many readers he has.
“My web stats say I had 106,000 unique vistors in May,” Jarvis answered via e-mail. “I had about 20,000 RSS readers, last I knew,” though he confessed to having forgotten his password to re-check that figure.
I suspect that a lot of bigger-deal columnists than Diadiun have smaller readerships than Jarvis’s. Newspaper circulation numbers are padded to begin with, but those numbers don’t reflect how many people read any particular part of the paper. Does everyone who picks up the New York Times turn to Maureen Dowd? I doubt it. But everyone who reads Jeff Jarvis reads Jeff Jarvis.
MORE ON JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND THE ATLANTIC’S SALONS, from Mickey Kaus. “The problem with Bradley’s salons, like the problems with WaPo’s similar, now-cancelled events, is that they create two big conflicts: 1) The need to avoid pissing off the corporations who fund (and then some***) the salons in the hope of getting access to influential journalists and administration bigshots; and, even more corrupting, 2) the need to suck up to the administration bigshots to get them to show up at the salons where they can be accessed by corporations who are paying for them.”
Meanwhile, Megan McArdle reports: “I’m not going to comment much on my employer’s salons except to say that I’ve been to them, and there’s no scandal there. At the paid ones, where the journalists talk, the journalists dictate what we say, and the sponsors are told they have no control. At the unpaid salons, it’s–well, it’s an off the record briefing, of the sort that every other journalist is well familiar with. Either way, I’ve never said or done anything that I wouldn’t say at a regular interview, and neither have the other journalists.”
Looks to me like David Bradley is leaving no revenue source untapped. . . .
INSTAVISION: Who Killed California’s Economy? I talk with Joel Kotkin, author of The City: A Global History, about “gentry liberalism,” media bias, and California’s disastrous economy. Plus, what it means for the rest of America. (Bumped).
UPDATE: Viewers liked Kotkin’s use of the term “Soft Putinism” to describe today’s politicized media. I prefer the term “An Army of Ezra Kleins.” . . .
HOPE AND CHANGE SAME! Administration Using the Same Stimulus Job-Creation Number Obama Did on May 1. Yeah, but the gap between those numbers and reality has expanded, so that’s something.
TIGERHAWK: The 35% Solution: “Because its efforts have been broken into separate initiatives with different justifications, few people other than news junkies have noticed how extraordinary Barack Obama’s agenda is. Perhaps a number will help: 35%. That is the aggregate percentage of United States GDP produced by the three industries that the Democrats hope to restructure from the top down: Health care (17% of GDP), energy (9.8% of GDP), and financial services (8% of GDP). Think about that. Without even considering the transformational impact of proposed anti-business laws of general application, such as the Orwellian ‘employee free choice act,’ the Obama administration wants to redesign 35% of gross domestic product from the center. And he proposes to do it all in a rush this summer, lest the decline in his popularity and that of the Congressional Democrats erodes his power to do so.”
NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE fires nearly 200 workers because of race. Can this be true?
SMART DIPLOMACY: White House misspills President Obama’s name on diplomatic dokument.
SHIKHA DALMIA: Wanted: Honesty on Health Care.
CROSSING A VERY BIG SEA in a very small boat. “There’s madness, and then there’s crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a 21-foot fishing boat designed for shallow water. Ralph Brown of Florida is doing just that. Go ahead and call him crazy. He doesn’t care.” I think he’s crazy. . . .
THE NATIVES ARE GETTING RESTLESS: That’s great. Now fix the economy.
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OBAMA’S Moscow Retreat.
WHAT CALIFORNIA STATE WORKERS think of the taxpayers.
BLOOMBERG: Democrats Split on Stimulus as Job Losses Mount, Deficit Soars. Well, the whole deficit-soaring thing is no surprise. But who knew that shoveling out cash to cronies wouldn’t prevent unemployment from mushrooming? Plus this: “The Treasury is increasing debt sales to pay for the spending. After more than doubling note and bond offerings to $963 billion in the first half, another $1.1 trillion may be sold by year-end, according to Barclays Plc. The second-half sales would be more than the total amount of debt sold in all of 2008.”
IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Katherine Mangu-Ward and I talk about Sarah Palin.
DETROIT, CALIFORNIA, AND NOW THE WHOLE U.S.? Beware the Economic Doomsday Machine! With bonus Star Trek video.
UPDATE: Locusts.
MORE LISTS: Best 2009 Albums You (Probably) Haven’t Heard, but Should.
Plus, Best Americana Music of the Year… So Far. The latter reminds me that the Nebraska Guitar Militia really needs to put out another album.
NANOTECH UPDATE: A new solar-cell design could cut costs and is suitable for large-scale flexible panels.
TIME-LAPSE VIDEO of a 1990 mall. I’d really like to see time-lapse, on a scale of years, for my local mall, say from when it opened to now. I have a couple of photos from the 1970s and my daughter can’t believe it’s the same place.
FOUR NEXT-GENERATION MEDICAL TREATMENTS. Faster, please.
CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: The “Mancession” is Upon Us.
SILICON GRAFFITI: Ed Driscoll posts video from the July 5th Tea Party protest in San Jose, where about a thousand folks turned out.
THE BIG PUBLIC-PENSION SQUEEZE.
TURKISH STUDENTS CREATE Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car.
LET’S HOPE: Incandescent Bulbs to Close Efficiency Gap with Fluorescents?
GORDON CHANG: What the riots in China really mean.
THE FEYNMAN PATH to nanotechnology.
AN OPTICAL TRANSISTOR made from a single molecule.
IT’S OKAY TO QUESTION your patriotism!
THEY WATCH YOU. THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO WATCH THEM. Police chief denounces ‘cowardly’ iPhone users monitoring speed traps.
MORE ON THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL SCANDALS. “Notes from a contentious meeting of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service are sure to raise more questions on Capitol Hill about whether the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin was rooted more in the agency’s desire to get him off its back than legitimate concerns about his ability to perform his official duties.”
TODD ZYWICKI: Treat Borrowers Like Adults: The problems with a financial products safety panel..
VOLKSWAGEN ROUTANS RECALLED because their owner’s manuals don’t include a required warning not to put items on or near the airbag. Good grief. But the best line is from the comments: “I just purchased a Routan. I really like it. My friends tell me it’s a Chrysler. I firmly say ‘No!’ to them. I proudly point to my Routan and announce that it’s an American engineered German branded Fiat, manufactured in Canada, using some Japanese parts, by a company that is majority owned by American taxpayers. They stare.”
HOPE AND CHANGE SAME! Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free: Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely. Gosh, remember the fierce moral urgency of getting Obama in to end all those awful Bush policies? I do . . . .
IN THE MAIL: From Glen Cook, An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat.
MICHAEL YON POSTS another report from the Philippines.
“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Reminding the Russians about Alaska.
UPDATE: Setting off the “Quayle-o-Meter.” “That’s the way to ‘hit the Reset button’, Mr. President. Remind the Russians of perhaps the stupidest thing they ever did.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe Obama’s just covering for Joe Biden.
VOTING ON A BILL THAT’S too long to read.
MICHAEL BARONE: Americans are getting cold feet over Democratic proposals. “The $787 billion stimulus package, the cap-and-trade bill’s utility rate increases, the public health insurance package — all these seem to generate more apprehension than enthusiasm. So does the prospect of doubling the national debt, as the Congressional Budget Office estimates, from about 40 percent of gross domestic product to about 80 percent. That’s about where it ended up after World War II. Americans evidently regard our current economic situation, though negative, as not enough to justify the magnitude of deficit spending that was appropriate in an all-out world war.”
TAXPROF: Judge Sotomayor’s Law Practice: A Tax Dodge? Always happy when one of my tax thoughts makes TaxProf. But I was just following Ralph Winter’s advice from my Business Associations class in law school: When you see a business arrangement that doesn’t seem to make any sense, just say “it’s probably for tax reasons,” and you’ll be right nine times out of ten.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON UPDATE:
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury has seen video of a former Louisiana congressman accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000 in cash outside a northern Virginia hotel.
The videos played Tuesday are a key piece of evidence in the bribery trial of William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans. He’s accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes to broker business deals in Africa.
No word on whether there was a camera in his freezer.
ERIC SCHEIE: Michael Jackson Still Dead!
MATT WELCH: California Screaming: The Golden State’s political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens’ revolt. “Rarely has the chasm between elite political discourse and grubby popular opinion been displayed in such sharp relief. The implications of this citizen revolt—and the hostile reactions to it—stretch far beyond Nevada’s western border. California is the Ghost of Federal Government Future. . . . Faced with a political class that ignored bureaucratic inefficiency, that demanded higher taxes, that filled the newspapers with scare stories about people who will literally die as a result of budget cuts, the citizens of one of the bluest states in the nation collectively said we just don’t believe you anymore. If even California’s famous fruits and nuts can call the statists’ bluff, there may be hope for the rest of the country. “
PROLONGED SUNSPOT DROUGHT coming to an end?
HOMELAND SECURITY REMAINS A JOKE — A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SERIES: Security at Federal Buildings Fails to Catch Bomb Materials in Undercover Tests, Report Says.
Related: U.S. Government’s Cyberdefense System Doesn’t Work.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Welcome to government for the benefit of government officials and their hangers-on.
MEGAN MCARDLE: Medicare’s Mythical Administrative Cost Savings.
HOW TO cut up a whole chicken. You’d think everybody knew this already, but you’d be wrong.
UPDATE: Deboning video, thanks to reader Mark Mecca.
WASHINGTON POST: Power of Stimulus Slow to Take Hold: Rising Joblessness Blunts President’s Plan for Recovery. Well, at least it demonstrates that shoveling cash out to your political supporters doesn’t do much to boost employment. But here’s the pro-stimulus spin:
The measures we have taken have certainly prevented things from getting much worse.
That’s inspired Scott Ott to produce this stirring Democratic bumper sticker for 2010:
With a slogan like that, how can they lose?
UPDATE: Reader Tom Baker writes:
Glenn,
“The measures we have taken have certainly prevented things from getting much worse.”
I have been hearing this a lot lately from Obama voters. They assert, without any support whatsoever, that the “Stimulus” Bill is still a success because things would be much, much worse had it not been passed.
So, I guess they would agree that the invasion of Iraq was a success because it prevented another terrorist attack in the U.S.? They wouldn’t agree with that? BIG surprise….
Heh.
YOUR ECONOMIC GLOOM ROUNDUP:
Why Unemployment Could Hit 14%.
The Labor Market Is Worse Than You Think.
ANN ALTHOUSE: Look How Silly The Russians Made Obama Look.
MATTHEW HOY: “My advice to democracy lovers everywhere: If you’re going to overthrow a strongman, kill him.”
THE COST OF controlling the press.
JON HENKE: The End of the Libertarian Democrats.
DEPARTMENT OF I-TOLD-YOU-SO, economics division.
THE DIGNITY CODE.
IRANIAN REVOLUTION, DAY 25: A roundup at The Berman Post.
I NEED ANOTHER APPLIANCE LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD, but I must admit I find this pizza oven intriguing. The customer reviews are good.
UPDATE: I’m reminded that I find this so intriguing that I wrote about it before a couple of years ago. The Insta-Wife’s position remains the same: No more kitchen gadgets that take up counter space. And, sadly, she’s right.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Diane Meyer emails:
Glenn, normally I wouldn’t bother you with a note about something like this, but I couldn’t stop myself after reading your post on the pizza oven. We got one of those Presto Pizza ovens a few years ago. It is simply the greatest. It does homemade pizzas really well and certainly does a better job of reheating delivery pizza or frozen pizzas than a regular oven.
We have worn ours out and will definitely be getting another one. By the way, we store it in a lower cabinet, not on the counter.
A lot of people wrote that they like this gadget (though some said the teflon is a bit delicate). But my cabinet space is at a premium, too, alas. Meanwhile, Chad Chandler writes that kitchen gadgets are Stuff White People Like. Well, I’m pretty white, so . . . .
PJTV: Is Obama Confused About His Supporters and Critics? With Scott Ott, Stephen Green, and Bill Whittle.
JACK SHAFER CHARGES A “CORRUPTING EFFECT” from The Atlantic’s “salons.” Plus, what they could learn from the CATO Institute.
But I’m not so sure. Erving Goffman wrote years ago about the importance of a “backstage” where people could say things that needed to be said, but in a non-public way. That backstage has steadily vanished ever since, a result of technology and changing mores. Maybe that’s good, but maybe we need a backstage space somewhere. Buck-raking off-the-record dinners may not be the way to do it, but Shafer’s insistence that everything be on the record seems wrong, too.
UPDATE: I suppose, as we’re heading for another round of Petty Blifil (the use of “ethics” as an offensive weapon, discussed in The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society) I should disclose again that, like Ed Morrissey, and a host of other bloggers, my Amazon links (like the one pimping my book immediately above!) generate referral fees in the form of a small percentage of what sells. Also like Ed Morrissey, I don’t do pay-per-post. (There’s somebody going around blog comment sections claiming I get paid to post links to The Atlantic and Popular Mechanics, but that’s not true. I link to them regularly — as to Popular Science, Autoblog, Wired, etc. — because they have a lot of stuff that interests me, and, hopefully, you.) On the rare occasions when people send me free stuff (aside from books, which get the “in the mail” books-received treatment), if I blog about it I disclose that. Would I disclose an off-the-record dinner with a bigshot? No, not if I promised not to. Would I arrange those dinners on behalf of advertisers for a fat fee? Doubtful, though the moral dilemma remains entirely abstract at this point . . . .
ANOTHER COMPLAINT about the New York Times lifting leads from bloggers. Hey, it’s a dog-eat-blog world out there.
SO MAYBE THAT ON-THE-SIDE PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE was just some sort of a tax dodge. That would make it okay, right?
Related item here.
OUT OF THE BLEACHERS AND INTO THE ARENA: Scrappleface’s Scott Ott is running for office.
PEACHTREE CITY TEA PARTY UPDATE: 1,750 Tea Party Patriots fill The Fred to talk taxes.
REPORT: What Caused the Fannie and Freddie Debacle: “The housing bubble that burst in 2007 and led to a financial crisis can be traced back to the federal government intervention in the U.S. housing market intended to help provide home ownership opportunities for more Americans.”
NO SAFE ZONES. I’m sorry, but the only way to fix this is to be an asshole, complain loudly, and make things even more unpleasant for the perpetrator than for you. Even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain.
UPDATE: A reader emails:
I have been a contributor to the NY Phil for several years. But no more. I thought that the Philharmonic was about music and art. But Bramwell Tovey recently made some gratuitous political remarks from the stage, championing Barack Obama and, by obvious implication, demeaning George W. Bush.
Since my own politics lean in the opposite direction, and since the Philharmonic has chosen to make itself a political organization, I will no longer contribute. I don’t begrudge Mr. Tovey, or the members of the orchestra who applauded him, their political convictions. I do begrudge their choice to air their politics at a concert! I simply cannot understand why you allow behavior that is guaranteed to alienate many members of your audience.
No more. You may consider me a former contributor. I am thoroughly disgusted about this.
Like the Big Media, they don’t seem to mind losing audience in exchange for politics.
CITY SLICKERS MEET FARMHANDS. Sorry, but we’ll only see a lot of “urban farming” if food becomes scarce.
IT’S NOT NANOTECHNOLOGY, BUT IT’S COOL: Robot invented to crawl through veins. “With a diameter of just one millimeter, a tiny robot has been unveiled that will crawl through the body to diagnose artery blockage.”
REASONS not to panic over acetaminophen.
REMEMBERING ROBERT MCNAMARA as father of the Ford Falcon.
Meanwhile, Ray Patnaude, who by a curious coincidence is rebuilding the brakes on his Falcon right now, sends: “How can a car designed by Robert McNamara keep veering to the left as it slows down? oh.”
PERVERSE IMPULSES and brain architecture. “Efforts to be politically correct can be particularly treacherous.”
By the way, speaking of perverse impulses, I’ve been substituting “instapundit” for the NYT’s own internal reference info on my links to their paper for a while. I assume it shows up in a log somewhere, but if they’ve noticed I haven’t heard.
REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.
BUREAUCRASH AT THE WASHINGTON TEA PARTY:
CALIFORNIA supports incorporation of the Second Amendment. Plus this: “Thirty-three other states also filed an amicus brief supporting incorporation, though they weren’t the surprise that California’s brief was — 31 of them filed an amicus brief in Heller that also endorsed incorporation (footnote 6). The two new additions are Maine and North Carolina. One of the states that joined both of the multistate briefs, Minnesota, is one of the six states that doesn’t have a right to bear arms provision in the state constitution; California is another.”