The Duke Lacrosse players never even made it to trial, and thier prosecutor was disgraced and driven out of the profession for getting their case wrong.

Let’s compare the “Central Park Jogger” case. Five non-white males get screwed, shoed, and bar-b-qued with forced confessions and are exonerated only by the happenstance of a DNA matchup to the real perpetrator after spending the years of their youth in New York State prison. Ever see it brought up among the small government rahrah crowd these days? Me neither.

No doubt all right-minded “libertarian evangelicals” would express equal indignation over the Central Park Jogger case, provided you brought it up first, but what they put foremost in their writings speaks volumes.

Time will keep me from covering everything that is on my mind, but I do hope you will read some of my material from time to time and I will try to answer some of those issues you bring up.

There’s a second joke though:

Economics is the only academic field where two people can share the same Nobel prize for saying the opposite thing. (Referring to Myrdal and Hayek in 1974.)

I forget who made the observation that Economics is the only academic field where two people can both win the Nobel Prize for saying the exact opposite of each other.

By the way, you know that civil forfeiture thing you’ve got going? Well, when a SOCIALIST thinks you’re (you as a nation that is) being buggered (and I do) by the state… well… take that as you will ;)

@Marty They’re not the same commitee. The Peace Price is awarded by a group of five people selected by the Norwegian parliament, and they in turn select the recipient based on three criteria (you only need to fulfill one of them): Reducing the military, arranging peace conferences or bringing nations closer together (Obama got it mostly for the latter, and partly on the promise of doing the first).

The prize in economics isn’t a Nobels price at all. It was established by the National Bank of Sweden (with the full name of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). The recipient is selected by the Royal Science Academy (who also chooses the recipient for Chemistry and Physics), and their criteria are about advancing the understanding of economics. And if you’re gonna complain about Krugman getting it how about Friedman?

@Sean L. That one you’ve gotta explain. Seems rather difficult to arrive at that position without some redefinition of the word logic.

I can’t wait to see what you have to write.

You’ve done a lot of good, in my opinion, just as Radley has. Thank you.

Yes! I look forward to discussing adoption law and/or other areas of family policy here soon. It should be interesting.

Awesome…I thought I was the only one (tiny, indeed). I’ve already added your two other blogs to Google Reader and look forward to reading.