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UPDATE - Just got off the phone with Doug Blaze, Dean of UT Law School.  He told me that the school has policies on this topic and relies on professors for compliance, but does not monitor or double check.  I’m hoping that he will monitor a little more closely during this campaign.

Glenn Reynolds likes to strike this ultra-libertarian pose, non-Republican, above it all, intelligentsia conservatism.  In fact, here’s an email from Glenn, to me, stating just that.

I’m not a Republican.

He even once emailed me that he considers himself leftist.

If it weren’t for the war, I would be considered a quirky leftist.

Well, if you read Instapundit at all during this election, you know that’s a lie.  

Flat out, bald-faced lie.

Let’s look at Reynolds post just from THIS MORNING.  

7.10 AM - Claims Hillary drama continues. (that’s his second post of the morning)

7.20 AM - Claims Obama is creating swiftboat groups out of whole cloth.

8.11 AM - Claims Ayers swift-boating ad is “fair“, and that Obama efforts to fight it violate free speech.

8.31 AM - Cites Tyra Banks and celebrity meme “dooming” Obama.

8.51 AM - Mocks Obama stage at Invesco field.

8.57 AM - Claims Dems peeling away from Obama, and mocks somemore.

9.16 AM - Gins up protestors in Denver.

9.27 AM - Calls Democrats traitors to country.

9.36 AM - Back to Ayers.  (that only took less than 2 hours!)

These are Glenn Reynolds’ posts from the first 2.5 HOURS OF TODAY ALONE.  Of course he sprinkles in a few posts about non-political hooey, but in the above noted 9 posts, there is no mistaking Reynolds’ partisanship.  

If you are a “quirky leftist”, or “not a Republican”, this isn’t how you’d blog.  However, if the first thing you did in the morning was check your email for whatever garbage the RNC and the McCain campaign want you to parrot, and then proceed to literally regurgitate it INSTANTANEOUSLY, well….that’s what Glenn Reynolds’ blog looks like.

It also doesn’t look very much like the work of a law professor at the University of Tennessee.  It looks like the hackery of some twitching Karl Rove wannabe wingnut like Matt Naugle.  Which leads me to this question.

What are the rules for partisan activity from a non-profit instutition as it applies to professors?  Reynolds is clearly, proof coming from his own blogposts, campaigning against Barack Obama and for John McCain.  This isn’t even debatable.  Glenn may debate it, but we already know he’s dishonest.

Here’s what the IRS says about 501(c)(3) non-profits and political activity.

voter education or registration activities with evidence of bias that (a) would favor one candidate over another; (b) oppose a candidate in some manner; or (c) have the effect of favoring a candidate or group of candidates, will constitute prohibited participation or intervention.

Looks to me like Glenn is clearly violating that if he is doing any of this political activity from the campus of UT.  If he were smart, he wouldn’t be doing any of this from UT’s campus.  But Glenn isn’t smart enough to have even a colorable claim of non-partisanship in his blog anymore, so who knows.  I have placed a call to UT’s dean and director of development.  Awaiting a response.

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