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More on Judging Decisions Not to Abort

Posted on February 21, 2008
In a post several weeks ago, I expressed concern about the development of an expectation among some medical personnel and others that pregnant women should abort in certain circumstances. Now we get a story of a biology professor at the...

Beatitude

Posted on February 21, 2008
For the next few days, I will be in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah -- at Alta -- where the skiing is better than it is anyplace else on the planet. If the goal of "Catholic" anything -- legal theory, etc....

Non-celibate priests, same-sex unions, and magisterial authority, oh my!

Posted on February 20, 2008
[HT: Peggy Steinfels, at dotCommonweal.] Catholic Church Chief Stirs Controversy With Celibacy Comments Barely a week since taking office, the head of the German Catholic Church, Robert Zollitsch, has raised eyebrows with comments that clerical celibacy is not "theologically necessary...

More from Prof. Kmiec

Posted on February 20, 2008
Professor Doug Kmiec expands on his recent Slate piece, "Reaganites for Obama?" (in which he wrote, among other things, "Sorry, McCain, Barack Obama is a natural for the Catholic vote") in this guest commentary, "The Moral Duty to Inquire." Although....

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On the other hand . . .

Posted on February 20, 2008
A few days ago, Michael suggested the indefensibility of certain Bush Administration policies relating to mercury pollution. Just to make him feel a bit better about our Commander-in-Chief, I'm linking to this article, in which musician / activist Bob Geldof...

Blog Stats, or, Behold the Awesome Force that is MOJ

Posted on February 20, 2008
Uber-law-blogger Paul Caron has posted a ranking of law-prof blogs. MOJ's loyal readers might have been perturbed to notice our absence from the "top 30." Fear not. As Prof. Caron noted, we were omitted from the stats because we did...

Better Family Leave Policies for A More Balanced Academy?

Posted on February 20, 2008
Two Penn State professors have been trying to figure out empirially exactly why the academy leans toward the left politically. They just released a paper, "Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don't Get Doctorates", in which they conclude that the values and...

Norm management and sex-ed licenses

Posted on February 19, 2008
Dan Markel offers this response to my comment on his sex-ed license proposal: Rob is right that there are definitely norm-management issues involved, but consider whether the same concerns exist regarding gambling, alcohol, and tobacco. Why do norms against abusing...

A (Catholic) Response to the Sex-Education License Issue

Posted on February 19, 2008
I thank Rob for his posting on this issue posed by the Markel article on ?sex-ed license? education. I would very much like to respond to this important post of Rob?s in greater, detailed explanation. However, I find myself out...

The Sex-Ed License

Posted on February 19, 2008
Dan Markel proposes a "sex-ed license," through which: minors above a certain age (e.g., above 14, 15, or 16?) wishing to have consensual sexual relations with other minors above that age or with adults should have to take a sex-ed...

"Get Some"

Posted on February 18, 2008
One Sunday morning in Manhattan a few years ago, I was with my daughters and was confronted with a particularly lewd billboard. I had never done so before, but I decided to call the city's 311 information number to complain....

Other Inconvenient Truths: A Reply to William Stuntz

Posted on February 18, 2008
Prof. John Breen offers the following response to Prof. Bill Stuntz's recent Weekly Standard article discussed here and here. "With his recent editorial ?The Inconvenient Truths of 2008: Four Things the Party Loyalists Wont? Want to Hear? (Weekly Standard, Feb...

New Book on Consistently Opposing Killing

Posted on February 18, 2008
Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War, edited by Rachel M. MacNair and Stephen Zunes, is coming out April 30, 2008, published by Greenwood Press (Praeger). This volume seeks to make the case that...

Dear Tom, Elizabeth, Greg, Susan, and Rob,

Posted on February 18, 2008
I'm envious. U. of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, Gets a Guest House by Frank Gehry This house, designed by Frank Gehry, will be moved to a retreat center in southern Minnesota owned by the U. of St. Thomas. A guest...

Rick's (Persistent) Question Puzzles Me

Posted on February 18, 2008
Well, not so much the question as Rick's asking it: "So, Michael . . . what about cap-and-trade regimes as a way of controlling and reducing pollution?" Did I say something--or did the NYT article say something--against a federal cap-and-trade...

Buzbee on floors and ceilings

Posted on February 18, 2008
I appreciate Michael's link to Prof. Buzbee's recent paper on pre-emption, and regulatory floors and ceilings. As Michael says, Prof. Buzbee is an expert in the relevant areas, and so his work would be quite useful to anyone trying to...

Usury Law and the Christian Right

Posted on February 18, 2008
I haven't read this yet, but it sure sounds interesting! "Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation" By Christopher Lewis Peterson, University of Florida -- Levin College of...

The Bush Administration, the EPA, and Mercury

Posted on February 18, 2008
In response to Rick's most recent post in our to-and-fro, I decided to consult my colleague Bill Buzbee, who is an expert in administrative law and environmental law. Here is what Bill told me: The Clean Air Act has a...

Catholic Blog Awards

Posted on February 18, 2008
The polls are open! Vote early, vote often . . ..

Interesting reading in this month's "Atlantic"

Posted on February 18, 2008
Sightings 2/18/08 Growth, Violence, and the Coming Religious Peace -- Martin E. Marty Decades ago an Atlantic editor suggested an idea for an article which I somehow failed to produce. I recall him saying that the magazine rarely covered religion,...

Immigration in 21st Century America

Posted on February 18, 2008
On Feb.1, 2008 in Napa, California, Archbishop Gomez of San Antonio addressed a special meeting of Latin American bishops on immigration. He began by reminding his audience that the Holy Family and their flight into Egypt has provided a powerful...

"Religion and the Death Penalty"

Posted on February 17, 2008
This article, by Walter Berns, is interesting. Here is the opening of "Religion and the Death Penalty": The best case for the death penalty--or, at least, the best explanation of it--was made, paradoxically, by one of the most famous of...

The Olympics

Posted on February 17, 2008
So, I am getting depressed about the fact that the 2008 Summer Olympics are going to be held in China. And, even more depressing are the stories I have been reading in recent weeks about weak-kneed corporate-sponsore types who are...

Back to Michael

Posted on February 17, 2008
I am not sure that my friend Michael's post responds to my question. So, a recap: Michael posted a link to a piece from the New York Times and asked "MOJ Republicans" -- I guess that's me! -- "is there...

Back to Rick

Posted on February 17, 2008
Did the federal court get it wrong? Wasn't it legally wrong for the Bush Admin to have tried to prevent the states from being more strict against mercury than are the feds? Doesn't every Admin, Democratic too, make morally indefensible...

Answer to Michael

Posted on February 17, 2008
A question to Michael, in response to his question to "MOJ Republicans": Let's all agree that mercury is yucky. What is the empirical / scientific / economic / Catholic basis for (what I gather is) your opposition to a nationwide...

A Question for MOJ Republicans

Posted on February 16, 2008
Is there a way to understand this story such that what the the Bush Administration has done seems genuinely defensible? New York Times February 16, 2008 Feds Nip State Efforts to Slash Mercury WASHINGTON (AP) -- While arguing in court...

"Reaganites for Obama"

Posted on February 15, 2008
Thanks, Michael. I was, I admit, surprised -- but, no surprise, not at all persuaded -- by Prof. Kmiec's essay. Doug Kmiec has been a friend, and mentor, to me for a long time. But, like they say, even Homer...

Life Imitating Art?

Posted on February 15, 2008
This story about the attention Minnesota's superdelegates are getting illustrates that the (hilarious) Borowitz satire Michael Perry posted isn't far from the truth.

Time Out for Some (Political) Humor

Posted on February 14, 2008
[From The Borowitz Report for February 14, 2008:] Conversation with a Superdelegate Actual Transcript -- Hello? -- Doug, my man, is that you? Glad I caught you, buddy! You?ve had your voicemail on the past few days. Hillary and I...

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