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March 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 25 Comments

Touré Neblett has built his career with the worst race card baiting, directed at conservatives and the Tea Party in general, and black conservatives in particular. Now Touré is targeting Dr. Ben Carson. It's a shame that someone with the accomplishments of Dr. Carson even needs to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 4 Comments

If you have been a reader here for more than a few weeks, you probably have seen one of the many posts about Pallywood (sometimes referred to as Paliwood), the Palestinian cottage industry of creating faux events to stir up public opinion against Israel. There's another...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 26, 2013 13 Comments

Republican Paul McKinley, candidate to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., for Congress in the upcoming April 9 special election (IL-02), has just released a new ad that illustrates in sobering detail the destruction wrought by the Chicago Democratic Machine. The video lays bare what the people face...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 36 Comments

The oral argument just concluded.  The audio will be posted later.  Update -- Audio is here. Transcript is here. Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits -- as if the spin matters. I'll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of spin meter. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 13 Comments

Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case.  Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It's hard to believe that this day has arrived.  We have been covering Prop 8 almost since...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

I was reviewing World War I history with my son yesterday. The global-scale conflict started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914.  This event set in motion a series of diplomatic incidents that led inexorably to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 24 Comments

Just whatever you want. It's going to take really, really big breaking news for me to post anything. UPDATE by Leslie Eastman: As I read this, I suddenly realized why it was going to take "big breaking news". So, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish Professor Jacobson...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 9 Comments

How low is low? Has real estate bottomed out? Via @TheBubbleBubble, some advice about not thinking the real estate bubble is done imploding: I'd have no business whatsoever buying houses until this demographic tsunami is well underway, which years from now: businessinsider.com/matt-kings-mos…— Jesse Colombo(@TheBubbleBubble) March 25,...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 25, 2013 28 Comments

Bowdoin Professor Sarah Conly's "Three Cheers for the Nanny State," published in the Sunday New York Times, has done a great service to those of us who think Mayor Bloomberg is alone in his attempts to gloss over limited powers and the role of government,...

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 25, 2013 4 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 6 Comments

We noted before that New York was going to abandon the 7-round magazine limit in the new handgun law. We didn't expect it would be done so quietly, by folding it into a provision in the budget, via Bloomberg News: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s seven-round limit on magazines...

Posted by Joel Engel on March 25, 2013 7 Comments

Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise visit to Iraq to plead with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to stop granting Iran permission to Iraqi airspace and territory.  Iran, which has a vested interest in maintaining the Syrian regime, flies arms and other material...

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