The Wall Street Journal's Heather Mac Donald had this to say in January about how far many law schools have moved from the legal mainstream:
Look no further than the law school "clinic." These campus law firms, faculty-supervised and student-staffed, have been engaging in left-wing litigation and advocacy for 30 years. Though law schools claim that the clinics teach students the basics of law practice while providing crucial representation to poor people, in fact they routinely neither inculcate lawyering skills nor serve the poor. They do, however, offer the legal professoriate a way to engage in political activism - almost never of a conservative cast.
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Amid suggestions that Iran had a hand in the bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, Iraq, Iran's hysterical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the bombing on "Zionists" and Christian forces in Iraq. To cries of "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" he said: "These heinous acts are committed by a group of Zionists and occupiers that have failed. They have failed in the face of Islam's logic and justice. But be sure, you will not be saved from the wrath and power of the justice-seeking nations."
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And right there, standing side by side with Iran, are our friends the Saudis and Egyptians. As Iran has pledged financial support to the (now) Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority, so with Saudi Arabia and Egypt: Declaring it premature to pre-judge the terror-driven Hamas, both have rejected the U.S. strategy of isolating Hamas by cutting off financial backing.
The Republicans may not get it about Jack Abramoff, but that should not imply the Democrats do. The Abramoff influence-buying scandal is hardly a Republican problem alone. According to Capital Eye, a D.C. based campaign-finance watchdog group, 41 Republican Senators received money from Abramoff, his associates or his Indian tribe clients. So did 24 Democratic Senators, including the Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada. Sen. Reid has made a big deal of saying he received no money from Abramoff ("I've never met the man, don't know anything"). Yet apparently, if Capital Eye is correct, he took a good deal of money from Abramoff associates and tribal clients.
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A finding by Federal District Judge Federico Moreno has come too late for 15 Cuban refugees. The Coast Guard found the 15 clinging to a broken bridge in the Florida Straits; U.S. immigration declared the 15 had not made it to the U.S. proper, and dispatched them back to Cuba. Judge Moreno has ruled that the U.S. erred big-time. No telling what Castro has ordered done to the Cuban 15. And for the U.S. to return them to a dismal fate in Comrade Fidel's concentration camp was flagrantly unconscionable.