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July 2011

Posted by Michael Alan on July 22, 2011 6 Comments

In an unsurprisingly dirty trick to avoid the optics of making his Democratic caucus vote to filibuster a bill supported by two thirds of Americans and that includes a balanced budget amendment they previously supported, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called a vote this morning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 12 Comments

Several readers have e-mailed me with links to the explosion in downtown Oslo, Norway, outside the Prime Minister's office. The explosion has all the indications of a car bomb, but reports are too preliminary to say. Rather than speculating, I'll wait until more is known. If it...

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970's equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Former Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun has died at age 91.  Sundlun was a dominant figure in Rhode Island politics, and a true Rhode Island character.  A WWII veteran who was shot down behind enemy lines in Europe, and who joined the Belgian resistence before working...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 8 Comments

When word spread via leaks to The NY Times and others that there was the possibility of a debt deal being worked out between Obama and Boehner in which budget cuts would be frontloaded with no new taxes on "the rich," Democrats in the Senate rushed to scuttle...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Thanks to new commenter something for the link to this cartoon.  Pretty much sums up my life at this critical juncture in the history of the Republic. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 5 Comments

Just saw this ad running on Fox News, from Spenditol.com: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

Unions have collected enough signatures for a statewide referendum on election day 2011 seeking to roll back Ohio's collective bargaining reform bill. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The fate of Senate Bill 5, Ohio's new collective bargaining law, will be in the hands of Ohio...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 18 Comments

I have written several times about the ordeal of Widener Law Professor Lawrence Connell, who was given notice of dismissal after he used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean Linda Ammons being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Speculation abounds, from The NY Times on down (or is it, on up?): The Obama administration has informed Democratic Congressional leaders that President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner were starting to close in on a major budget deal that would enact substantial spending cuts and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 20 Comments

Unbelievable.  By any standard. MSNBC to hire Al Sharpton for 6 p.m. slot, according to The NY Times: Mr. Sharpton’s imminent hiring, which was acknowledged by three people at the channel on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been signed, is significant in part because...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 56 Comments

I told you so: Once society decides that one-man, one-woman no longer is the “arbitrary” standard, on what rational basis do we stop at one-and-one? Jonathan Turley in The New York Times, One Big, Happy Polygamous Family: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

It's going to be hard not to put him on my Top 10 for 2012, just as he was on my Top 10 list for 2010. I can't disagree with his comments about what's her name, except (perhaps) to the extent he used the term "most."  ...

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 21, 2011 16 Comments

This Monday, Twitter suspended several accounts belonging to a prominent Texas conservative organization, Empower Texans, its staff, and another conservative organization, AgendaWise, created by a former employee. The best part? They received no notice or explanation of the suspension. Here's part of Empower Texans' official...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 9 Comments

From my recent trip to San Francisco, something old, something new:  ...

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