Michael Weiss at the New York Sun reports on our decision (see Roger's post below) to snub the Times of our precious review copies:
Encounter Books, the conservative publishing house run by Roger Kimball, will no longer send review copies to the New York Times. In an amusing and much-discussed item posted to the company's Encounter Intelligence Web log, Mr. Kimball explained that the Times has "studiously" ignored almost all of his titles, and so if it plans to review any in the future, it will have to buy them like any other reader.
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Read Andy McCarthy's take on the Supereme Court's Boumedine decision, from the National Review Online:
Read on...It is difficult to single out the most outrageous aspect of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s cataclysmic Boumediene ruling last Thursday: The reckless vesting of constitutional rights in aliens whose only connection with our body politic is their bloody jihad against Americans; the roughshod ride over binding precedent to accomplish that feat; or the smug arrogance perfectly captured by dissenting Chief Justice John Roberts’s description of a “constitutional bait and switch” — a Court that first beseeches the political branches to enact a statutory procedure for handling combatant detentions, and then, once a thoughtful law is compliantly passed, invalidates the effort for its failure to satisfy the eccentric predilections of five lawyers.
Here's a roundup to celebrate our future dietary habits: according to Ted Turner the human race is doomed to cannibalism (due to global warming, of course). Note the sub-headline of this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article: "Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many people." Solution: eat them!
Hungry? Why wait
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