The Institute for Justice strikes again. In Virginia, anyone who teaches Yoga needs to obtain a permit, which entails paying a $2500 fee, getting approval of your curriculum from a Virginia bureaucrat , and other barriers to entry. Read this editorial in the Richmond Times Dispatch for more details.
Also, check out IJ’s video. They are always very well made.
No explanations need. Just check out these hilarious videos from Gizmodo.
Now if only I could program these robots to BlueBook, I’d be set.
Foreign Policy Magazine presents the first annual list of the 100 Top Global Thinkers. I’m proud to say many of the top minds are members of my chosen profession; the law.
It is also worth noting that Dick Cheney (#13) beat the Pope (#17).
The NYU Journal of Law & Liberty hosted a symposium on the jurisprudence of Justice Thomas.
Check out one of the articles in the symposium issue, titled Pragmatic Originalism (H/T Legal Theory Blog):
As the influence of and debates over originalist constitutional arguments has spread, so has some uncertainty of the exact rouses of originalist authority. The maturation of the debates has exposed some dissensus over the intent of the Framers or Ratifiers, the plain meaning, the conventional contemporary understanding, and the actions of the founding generation.
This essay, part of a symposium on the jurisprudence of Justice Thomas, takes no position on the contending sources of originalist authority. Rather it uses the appearance of distinct original sources, as set out in the contribution to this symposium of Professor Gregory Maggs, to examine the potential impact on the force of originalist claims when subsequent judicial applications have to choose among rival potential sources of original intent, particularly when the distrinct strains of originalism might point toward different outcomes.
The presence of multiple originalist sources might be an embarrassment were originalism to be defended as a narrow interpretive device that relieves courts of the need to make contested interpretations of constitutional authority. Were the turn to originalism defended on pragmatic or instrumental grounds as a limiting strategy for judicial review, as this Essay proposes, the anxiety over multiple authorities would be lessened if not eliminated. Although originalism is not often defended on pragmatic grounds, this Essay suggests that this may be its strongest claim.
I look forward to reading the rest of the articles in the issue.
Twitter can be used to disperse gangs of unruly tweens, so why shouldn’t gangs use it to plan crimes?
From the Daily News, H/T Gizomodo, Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights:
The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.
Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
A boy shot in the leg weeks earlier on Lenox Ave. may have been targeted because of a battle the Original Young Gangsters crew started on Twitter.
A basic search of the social-networking site for OYG or Jeff Mob, the gang based in the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem, yields shout-outs and throwdowns.
“I knoe bitches from oyg that would dead mob yah s–t in harlem,” one girl wrote in a series of tweets aimed at drawing out a rival for a fight.
But Twitter can also help the police and community organizers assist in these neighborhoods.
Harlem pastor Vernon Williams, who runs Perfect Peace Ministry Youth Outreach, said his staff uses Twitter, MySpace and instant messaging to keep track of 4,000 at-risk teens.
A week ago, Twitter helped the volunteers stop a street war after they saw the Get Money Boys, based in the St. Nicholas Houses on W. 127 St., exchanging threats with Goodfellas and The New Dons, based just a few blocks north.
“They were threatening to go and hurt two people,” said Williams, 51, who sent staff out to find the tweeters.
Gang violence & Twitter? I suppose this story is a mix between Gangster’s Paradise and Wierd Al’s White & Nerdy?
Check out my other posts on Twitter here.