Via Randy Barnett we learn that Lott's Bias Against Guns has been nominated for a Spooner award for the best book on liberty published in 2003. On the voting page they state:
only one vote per email address will be accepted
I predict that Lott's book will get a Lott of votes.
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The Chicago Tribune reports:
Last year an anonymous person from the American Enterprise Institute
repeatedly tried and failed to remove all
criticism of Lott from his
wikipedia page. He
At the The High Road there was some discussion of the cherry picked Lott article I discussed here. One poster, "agricola", criticized Lott, linking to my blog.
On July 12 The Columbus Dispatch published a letter from Paul van Doorn replying to an earlier letter from David Mayer that I commented on. Here is an extract (hyperlinks added by me):
Any mention who did the nominating?
Given that the Spooner awards seem to be sponsored by Laissez-Faire Books, a libertarian bookseller, I'd say that some group of libertarians made up the list. I was surprised, in fact, to see one or two good books on the list among all the polemics; I voted for George Crile's "Charlie Wilson's War."