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February 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 4 Comments

The New York Times has a story on the return of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Egypt (emphasis mine): Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 15 Comments

To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, "folly" would be far, far too kind.Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction "illegal."  The U.S. vetoed the resolution.Standing in isolation,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 18, 2011 8 Comments

K McCaffrey --- I'm a bit skeptical of the Free State Project, which looks to mass-migrate freedom-loving folks to New Hampshire to legislate libertarian laws, but I sure love New Hampshire anyway. On Tuesday, a law was passed saying that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2011 33 Comments

The drama unfolding in Wisconsin has the potential to be a defining moment in the 2012 presidential campaign because Obama openly has picked sides against the taxpayers in favor of public sector unions:President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin's broiling...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2011 15 Comments

The video below is getting a fair amount of attention for the comparison of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler, and the hypocrisy of senior Democratic politicians on the subject of Hitler comparisons and overblown rhetoric.But have you noticed how many of the union...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2011 20 Comments

Now this represents real change.  After two years of using the pages of The NY Times to lash out at peaceful health care protesters and Tea Parties, the Board of Editors of The New York Times has decided that actual violence by unions in Wisconsin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 19 Comments

The protests in Wisconsin over attempts by the state legislature to decertify public employee unions are getting out of hand.  Democratic state legislators have fled the state to deprive Republicans of a legislative quorum.And Hitler signs, you want Hitler signs comparing the Governor to Hitler?  They...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 6 Comments

Is there anything more sickening than senior U.S. diplomats begging the Palestinian Authority delegates at the U.N. to "compromise" with just a Security Council "statement" condemning Israel, rather than a "resolution" condeming Israel?To which the response from the P.A. delegates was:  "Jump higher," no compromise for...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 17, 2011 7 Comments

Until the 'Atlas Shrugged: Part I' debut. Having read the novel(/epic) in my teens really changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I know dozens who can relate. Apparently the book is being broken up into three parts -- maybe John Galt's speech...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 7 Comments

... I have seen in a while, from A Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim, To an American-Jewish friend (h/t JHoward):"Just ponder how a third-rate community organizer — from the most incestuously corrupt political region in the U.S.; with a record of participation in the most vulgar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 18 Comments

We don't know the details of the "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" of CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Tahrir Square as the Egyptian crowd celebrated the resignation of Hosni Mubarek, but we know enough. Among the things we know is that the night before the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 21 Comments

There is a controversy at Widener Law School regarding calls for the dismissal of a law professor who, in trying to get the students to understand the law, used a hypothetical example in criminal law class in which the professor killed the Dean.As argued by law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2011 5 Comments

Jeff Jacoby writing in The Boston Globe, Irrelevant racial criteria (curiously, titled Retire The Racial Bean Counters at Jacoby's own blog)(h/t Solomonia):Though most Americans may still think of themselves as belonging to a single race, the multiracial population is surging. Racial boundaries are more permeable and...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 16, 2011 8 Comments

In the Washington Post today there was an article detailing Newt Gingrich's "financial empire." The prospective 2012-er has a lot of fundraising potential, sure, but I always found him to be a bit distasteful in the way that he goes about it. "[Some] American...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2011 5 Comments

Namely, anyone from the Obama administration, the people who actually "forced" Sherrod to resign.Mark Levin makes the point (and gives a nice shout out to my post Dissecting Shirley Sherrod's Complaint Against Andrew Breitbart) :--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2011 5 Comments

So how are we supposed to have an "adult conversation" with a President and Demcoratic Party who view the fiscal mess as just another political game?Via Politico:Obama’s decision to avoid entitlements was instantly deemed as irresponsible. Progressive blogger Andrew Sullivan interpreted the message as “screw you,...

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