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Ann Althouse is a college professor who runs an eponymous blog. She recently blogged about a Chinese professor at Vassar, Hua Hsu, who believes: “there is a naïve idealism at the heart of student protest, which might be desperate or loud but never as cynical as the world that necessitated it." She goes on to say: “I — who went to college in 1969 — think they are a lot less weird than we were. But if you think they are weird — entitled, oversensitive, whatever — you should look to your own mind and ask why it has created...

For some reason — ratings? — Megyn Kelly was on Fox News arguing with some lady who thought Santa Claus should no longer be depicted as a white man ... So here comes Jonathan Merritt in The Atlantic, turning that nugget o' Fox into something that Atlantic readers might find tasty ... Kelly didn't demand "rigidly racial depictions." She was challenging her guest's attempt to turn the usual image of Santa into a racial problem. It's the guest who's yearning to impose the racial template. What's the "serious error" about Santa that Kelly is supposed to have made? None! But...

Ann Althouse is a white Liberal law professor (and blogger) in Madison, Wisconsin who voted for Obama in 2008. She's probably going to vote for him again in 2012. Why? Because Rush Limbaugh played an audio clip "over and over on his show yesterday." Here's the video clip. Please keep in mind that Rush has a radio show so he could only play the audio. Althouse asks: "Just How Racist Is the 'Obama Phone' Video?" She concludes There's some kind of political point to be be made about they way some people become dependent on government or unrealistic about what...

The grand jury report in the Penn State case was revealed by accident?! The quote in the post title appears at the end of an article in the NYT about Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett: Mr. Corbett, as state attorney general, had begun an investigation in 2009 into allegations that a former Penn State assistant football coach had abused young boys, and that university officials might have covered up the scandal. He had convened a grand jury, and his prosecutors had taken testimony. But when he ran for governor, and even after he took office, he was obligated to keep the...

Ann Althouse, a blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor, has provided extensive firsthand accounts and photos — along with her husband Meade — of the Wisconsin protests and related matters. Althouse has criticized the actions of the Democratic lawmakers who left the state as well as the behavior of some of the protesters. Amid the numerous death threats against GOP state lawmakers, the ripping up of Democratic recall petitions and university professors musing about justifications for “political violence,” it was only a matter of time before the union/left rabble would turn their ire toward Althouse.

Ann Althouse brings up some great points in this trio of posts responding to another law professor's op-ed today, but none more better than this: Tribe's op-ed, as I wrote in the first post, rests very heavily on misrepresenting the Supreme Court's commerce power doctrine as referring to "commercial choices." In fact, the cases refer to "commercial activities," and a switch from "activity" to "choice" is immensely important in the health care litigation, in which opponents stress that the failure to buy insurance is inactivity, not activity, and therefore beyond even the broadest interpretations the Supreme Court has ever...

On most tours through the blogsphere, a stop by Ann Althouse’s Blog is well worth the mouse-click. She often thinks freely, unfreighted with dogmatic twaddle, and presents the events of the day in an interesting and enlightened perspective that dwarfs the mediocre and mendacious interpretations of them offered up by the likes of The Associated Press. One of her recent posts, however, touched off a firestorm. She compared a group of strongly committed Conservatives and Libertarians to the 9-11 hijackers. I initially chalked the whole thing up as an over the top metaphor and took no real offense. I myself,...