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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2011 11 Comments
In a split decision, the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has upheld a lower court decision to enjoin implementation of key provisions of S.B. 1070, the Arizona immigration law.  A copy of the 9th Circuit opinion is below.  The opinions was written by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 14 Comments
The Report issued by Richard Goldstone on the Gaza war is the single most influential document in the arsenal of those around the world — including on campuses in the United States — who seek to demonize and delegitimize Israel. That Goldstone is Jewish gave supposed...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 25, 2011 4 Comments
The more I read about John McCain, the more I cringe. “In September 2008 Condoleezza Rice traveled to Libya to have talks with Gadhafi. And just a few days before the 2008 presidential election, Bush signed a settlement under which Libya compensated families of victims...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 20, 2011 8 Comments
Thanks to my friend Mike for a referring me to a really fascinating article on South Carolina. I really don’t like playing the “who in 2012” game, since — in my opinion — it is way too far out to tell. However, this article did...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2011 3 Comments
Among the ironies of the intervention in Libya is that those who most bitterly complain about the Israel Lobby were in fact part of a Libya Lobby, as pointed out by David Bernstein earlier this month: As regular readers know, I’ve been highly critical of Professor Stephen...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 25 Comments
So says Sarah Palin’s father in this interview with the BBC, because of death threats: In the kitchen of their Wasilla home, among an extraordinary collection of animal skins, skulls and bones, the spoils of a lifetime spent hunting and fishing, they told me that...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 22, 2011 3 Comments
The Institute for Humane Studies, seemingly the epicenter of all pro-liberty events, funding, and seminars, has expanded to include videos from some of their scholars on a new website. LearnLiberty.org has just been launched, but it has already proved to be a great resource. It’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
… “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah” It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 30, 2011 2 Comments
One of my friends at Cornell is keeping a blog as he studies abroad in Syria. Jonathan Panter is a conservative in support of Bush foreign policy, as well as a junior government major at Cornell. He speaks Arabic and has traveled extensively in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 27, 2011 4 Comments
It is quite common to find naysayers and doomers. They’re ubiquitous on the internet, in politics, the news, etc. A rarer find is someone who sees the dismal state of things and puts forth a creative way to solve a problem. Among these few positive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 16 Comments
And does not immunize you from criticism when you do. From Democracy Now, Tuscon shooting victim Eric Fuller says: It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled—senseless hatred leading to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 67 Comments
Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice. But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 16 Comments
With each passing day, the evidence accumulates that Jared Loughner suffered from a mental illness completely disconnected from the political world, putting in context just how despicable the accusations were that a 10-month old electorcal map published on a Sarah Palin website contributed to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments
Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain: How America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin The substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner: Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 18 Comments
Here we go, from Democratic House Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, writing at HuffPo (emphasis mine), who claims that the Obamacare repeal bill must be renamed in the wake for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting: As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend...
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