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March 2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 29, 2013 4 Comments

1) The Washington Post on Obama's trip Fareed Zakaria uses a guest column in the Washington Post to proclaim Obama appeals to Israel's conscience: He starts with condescension: As a piece of rhetoric, Barack Obama’s speech to college students in Jerusalem was a triumph. He finally convinced Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2013 23 Comments

The game plays out every time there is a high-profile act of criminal violence.  There is an immediate media and left-blogsphere search to tie the shooter to a "right-wing" entity ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2013 17 Comments

The answer to a question I never asked (h/t our long lost Kathleen). The 'Monty Hall Problem': And the country? It picked Door No. 2, because math is hard....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2013 21 Comments

McKay Coppins at Buzzfeed Politics writes about how A Very White Republican Leadership Plans Minority Outreach: As the Republican Party gears up to launch a concerted, well-funded outreach effort aimed at attracting elusive minority voters, it's not just battling dismal poll numbers and tough demographic trends —...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 28, 2013 12 Comments

Earlier this week, I noted that the banks in Cyprus will be opening Thursday, once the regular people had time to embrace the levy and understand all the awesome goodness in the new bailout plan. Shockingly, the Cypriots are still not down with the political solution...

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 28, 2013 3 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 28 Comments

Shocker? She's been getting stranger by the day, including her claim that running against Mitch McConnell was like being raped. Democrats were going to swoon over Judd, and try to turn her into the next Elizabeth Warren. Who will they swoon around now, or are they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 20 Comments

Not long ago Politico's Maggie Haberman ran an anti-Palin opinion piece masquerading as news analysis, Sarah Palin’s next act: Candidate or ‘Kardashian’? I addressed that false choice in my post, Politico’s next act: Real News Organization or Gawker (no offense to Gawker), noting that Palin had backed numerous successful Republican...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 27, 2013 17 Comments

Amid the tales of sequestration travails, observing the response by Yellowstone National Park to a 5% cut in the National Park Service's budget reveals just what priorities are being applied by administrators. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk's handling of the situation: freeze permanent hires, hire fewer seasonal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 25 Comments

Matt Lewis has a very interesting take on the "culture wars," The culture war was never a fair fight (emphasis): Let's take a step back for a moment first. Many prominent conservatives, like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, argue that conservatives just want to be left alone. In...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 34 Comments

That's the format of a joke I often told about calling up state regulators when I was in private practice. They go off duty at 5 p.m., so the phone stops being answered at a few minutes before because a conversation started at 4:57...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 4 Comments

Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm.  There was  a truly abysmal threat to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 23 Comments

There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren's made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee. Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing "too big to fail" and "too big to prosecute," but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong way...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

John Kerry is not making much diplomatic progress on anything, unless you consider forcing Israel to apologize for acting lawfully in the face of aggression to be progress. Maybe he's been heading too many soccer balls. MT @markhalperin: John Kerry avec soccer ball on his head, as...

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