Month: May 2006
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Report that Duke accuser claimed twenty men raped her
Somehow I failed to notice this explosive information from the latest report on the Duke lacrosse incident: The day after the March 13 team party where a 27-year-old black woman claimed she was raped, Durham police told campus officers that “this will blow over,” the report said. The woman initially told police she was raped
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Conservative bestseller contest winner: Godless
A couple of weeks ago, I announced a contest to name the next conservative bestseller. The key is to leverage some powerful pejorative term like fascism, treason, slander, etc. It’s time to announce a winner: Ann Coulter! She just announced that her latest book is titled Godless: The Church of Liberalism. How can my readers
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Durham police questioned accuser’s credibility
Today a committee appointed by Duke President Richard Brodhead released a report (PDF) on the administration’s response to the alleged lacrosse team rape. The conclusion, not surprisingly, is that the administration failed to move quickly enough to address the situation — in part because it took a shocking ten days for the administration that the
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The “Bush is not a conservative” defense
I’m fascinated by Jonah Goldberg’s move to try sever conservatism’s fate from that of President Bush by arguing that the President is not a conservative: [T]here is one area where we can make somewhat useful comparisons between Nixon and Bush: their status as liberal Republicans… Bush is certainly to the right of Nixon on many
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USA Today/Gallup poll on Duke lacrosse
Did you know USA Today/Gallup polled the Duke lacrosse case? I didn’t. Here’s a summary of their findings from the poll, which was conducted April 28-30 with a nationally representative sample: Women are significantly more likely than men to say the charges that two Duke University lacrosse players sexually assaulted a woman at a March
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Two site search options: Google and Rollyo
Two months after being deleted from Google, I’m back in their index, although I only have about fifty pages indexed. In other search-related news, I added a Rollyo site search box to the left sidebar. To search this site, just click on the pulldown menu that says “Select Search Engine” and choose “Search brendan-nyhan.com.” It
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Local headline of the day
Breaking news from the News & Observer: “Colleges find drinking deeply rooted.” Coming next week: “Area schools find homework deeply disliked.”
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Colbert-loving liberals and PC-hating conservatives
I continue to be struck by the unrelenting blogger love for Stephen Colbert’s unfunny White House Correspondents’ Dinner routine. It’s reminding me of the days during the mid-’90s when many conservatives felt silenced by “political correctness.” They resented the fact that they felt like they had to self-censor themselves. So Rush Limbaugh or other commentators
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More on George Allen from TNR’s Ryan Lizza
Following up on his devastating story about George Allen’s ugly racial history, Ryan Lizza slams Allen again: Images of Allen are like a Civil War version of Where’s Waldo, with the Confederate flag replacing the bespectacled cartoon character. First, as The New Republic reported last week, there’s the senior class photo from Palos Verdes High
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Durham DA Nifong re-elected
I’m sad to report that Mike Nifong, the district attorney who turned Durham into a media circus, has been elected to a full term in office: District Attorney Mike Nifong kept his job as the county’s top prosecutor in a heated election that featured Nifong’s handling of the Duke lacrosse rape investigation as its central