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Duke lacrosse attorneys: No DNA match
Wow: DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday. Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did
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More details of alleged lacrosse pictures
An article in today’s News & Observer includes more details about the alleged Duke lacrosse party pictures and the timeline that they purportedly document: A sequence of photos from the lacrosse team party where police say a dancer was raped shows the accuser impaired and stumbling, team members drinking beer and the accuser smiling before
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Duke lacrosse atty. claims pictures exonerate players
Today’s Herald Sun includes a report on a claim by a Duke lacrosse player’s attorney claiming that time-stamped pictures show that the alleged victim was (a) already bruised up before attending the party and (b) passed out outside rather than returning inside at the time of the alleged rape. However, the attorney refused to identify
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Two Times op-eds on Duke lacrosse
The New York Times has been producing saturation coverage of the Duke lacrosse case for days now. Today they ran two op-eds on the case. The first, by a writer named Allan Gurganus, is a semi-incoherent quasi-literary rant. The concluding passage gives you the flavor of the piece: Now corporate America, athletic America, Defense Department
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Conference on Party Effects in the US Senate
I’m currently participating in the Conference on Party Effects in the United States Senate being held here at Duke today and tomorrow. All the papers, including the one I co-wrote on “Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933-2004,” are available in PDF if you are interested…
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The myth of Bush as “cowboy”
Last month, I wrote about the myth that George W. Bush is a “rancher.” For the record, he bought his property in 1999 and all he does there is cut brush. Yet people still believe it represents his true identity, as this ridiculous question yesterday during a Q&A in Charlotte, NC illustrates: Q Mr. President,
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Delay in Duke lacrosse search explained
People have questioned why it took so long for the police to search the Duke lacrosse house – here’s the answer from the City Manager in an interview with the News & Observer: City Manager Patrick Baker said in an interview Thursday that it took two days before police searched the house where a woman
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Reader critiques of Duke lacrosse coverage
I want to briefly note some critiques I’ve heard from readers about my blogging on the Duke lacrosse case: (1) I’m being too hard on the victim and her family. (2) I’m putting too much weight on statements made in the press, particularly those not made by the accuser. (3) The alleged identifications by the
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Curt Weldon is loathsome
Rep. Curt Weldon, my former representative when I was at Swarthmore College, has embarrassed himself yet again. This time, Weldon is criticizing Joe Sestak, his opponent, for having his daughter’s brain tumor treated at a hospital in Washington, DC. According to The Hill, Weldon “suggested Sestak should have sent his daughter to a hospital in
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Can Mitt Romney put health care on the 2008 agenda?
Jonathan Cohn makes an important point on TNR’s blog The Plank about the Massachusetts quasi-universal health care plan: Mitt Romney will say this law makes him a worthy candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. And he’s right. Politics should reward officials who accomplish something in office. And while it will undoubtedly annoy some progressives who