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The Ferguson Effect
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Author: 122 Publication date: Thursday, July 21, 2016 Show on E21: Related Topic: Crime Other Culture & Society This piece is the third installment of a guest-blog series by Heather Mac Donald for the Washington Post's The Volokh Conspiracy...
Powerline alleges ‘a still deeper layer of corruption’ in Washington Post’s oil sands story
via twitchy

As Twitchy reported yesterday, John Hinderaker of Powerline did a pretty thorough debunking of a Washington Post story by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin claiming that the Koch brothers are the largest lease holders in Canada’s oil sands and...
NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Remains on the Run as US Foreign Relations Tested
via legalinsurrection

Edward Snowden was expected to board a flight from Moscow today en route to an unknown final destination by way of Cuba and Venezuela. But officials have said that the NSA leaker did not board that flight. From the Washington Post: Edward Snowden...
Washington Post Drops Climate Hawk Ezra Klein, Adds Climate Confusionist Blog Volokh Conspiracy
via thinkprogress

CREDIT: AP Last year, the Washington Post removed its top climate reporter, Juliet Eilperin, from the environment beat, and its coverage of climate change dropped by one third. This week, the Post announced two key changes that ensure continued miscoverage...
Howler From CNN’s Cuomo: It’s ‘Illegal’ For Anyone But the Press to ‘Possess’ WikiLeaks Documents
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who laughably insisted a month ago that Hillary Clinton “did not do anything illegal” in connection with her use of a private server for State Department emailing and other business, is at it again. To be clear, she did lots of things...

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North Carolina Crime of "Assault on a Female" - The Volokh Conspiracy

North Carolina, it turns out, makes “[a]ssault[ing] a female” a class A1 misdemeanor, if the attacker is “a male person at least 18 years of age”; female-on-male, male-on-male, and female-on-female as...

The Volokh Conspiracy - Id. & Ibid.:

Ibid.: The Mommy Blawger asked me something that I'd wondered about, too: Why do legal works tend to use Id. to mean "same source as last time" rather than the Ibid. that's more common in other dis...