Daily Archives: 24 March 2007
Melts in your Heart, not in your Head
This is my nomination for “dumb conservative column of the day.” It’s by Jay Sekulow and covers an ACLU challenge to a township law in Galloway, NJ forbidding convicted sex offenders from living within 2500 ft. of any school, park, playground or day care. The ACLU is apparently seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional. Now, for my part, I don’t know that this is exactly unconstitutional. I’m not sure what the basis for a challenge would be – except to exploit yet again another time already the SCOTUS civil rights rulings for something to which they were clearly not
In Support of Minding One’s Own Business
The Lancet is in the headlines once again – this time for a highly “revised” ranking of recreational drugs by harmfulness. The last time it was in the headlines was last fall – for its publication of a hugely flawed population survey estimation of excess deaths in Iraq. The trouble there was that the population sampling method used – while superficially similar to those used in other epidemiological surveys – was biased toward overreporting deaths. (Rather than starting with a randomly-chosen household within their randomly-selected clusters and then surveying, in linear fashion, each house at a pre-selected offset from the
