Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynoldsis Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is best known for his weblog, Instapundit, a widely read American political weblog. He has published numerous books, columns, and academic articles...
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Just watched Bush's intro, followed by the Leahy / Schumer response. Bush was smirking; he thinks he's got it in the bag. More significantly, perhaps, Leahy and Schumer looked pretty flat; they seemed to be going through the motions; I don't think they believe they can stop him. That could change of course, but it's certainly how it looks now.
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My own take: Some of the nitpicking and complaining may well be justified, even beyond the inevitable dropped balls in something like this. But there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, people should be focusing on constructive action, not point-scoring.
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Whether (Tyco's) life as a short-seller's clay pigeon has been the driver or whether the company's own inability to make the case clearly enough has been the culprit, (Tyco) now is in a major league quandary,
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This whole process is part economics, part bankruptcy law, part ideology and part game theory -- but 100 percent painful.
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The secret of the 21st century is attract a lot of smart people to focus on problems that you think are important.
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People used to be ignorant. It was hard to learn things. You had to go to libraries, look things up, perhaps sit and wait until a book was fetched from storage, or recalled from another user, or borrowed from a different library . . . Things are different today. I'm writing this in a bar right now, and I have most of human knowledge at my fingertips.
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Commerce and free expression on the Internet have flourished because it's available to everyone on the same basis. That's how it should continue to be.
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The whole Street is sitting around waiting for confirmation of Dana payments.
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After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstruction, it made people think about cutting some of the projects that are everywhere.
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In other words, it's like the rest of the news,
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I'm pretty sure that this development will actually be bad for the Republicans. When the topic is defense, the Democrats lose. When it's sex, the Republicans lose. And the abortion debate will, I think, turn into a sex debate before it's over.
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Hiring a restructuring specialist does not imply filing, but when you do it and then default on the coupon, the picture is getting painted by the numbers.
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One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
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The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.