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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2013 61 Comments
The deification of Trayvon Martin, with comparisons to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Emmitt Till, is just part of the false narrative of the prosecution of George Zimmerman. We are seeing a mythology grow and become embedded on campuses which misrepresents the factual and legal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 134 Comments
Andrew Branca and I gave our presentation yesterday at Cornell Law School on the Zimmerman case, and the reasons why the jury reached the correct verdict. I’m hopeful the video will be available to post soon. One of the things I talked about was the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 27, 2013 34 Comments
As the nation was gripped by the George Zimmerman trial, over 50 people were shot in Chicago…many of them as young and black as the much publicized Trayvon Martin. With shootings seemingly so rampant, Chicago area parents are worried about the safety of their children. ...

Posted by New Neo on August 23, 2013 27 Comments
Yesterday the WSJ published an editorial on the Christopher Lane case: Some are focusing on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder on guns....

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 19, 2013 72 Comments
Via Amanda Turkel at Huffington Post comes news that The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a video “reenactment” of the shooting of Trayvon Martin in order to encourage people to oppose “Stand Your Ground Laws”: The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 07, 2013 64 Comments
It is perhaps inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between the  recently completed murder/self-defense trial of George Zimmerman in Florida and the just beginning travails of self-defense shooter Merritt Landry in New Orleans. Indeed, I’ve already begun to do so myself (see “Zimmerman Redux: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 73 Comments
Of course, the two cases bear no resemblance at so many levels. But Oprah can’t help herself, and debases the memory of Emmett Till by comparing Till’s whistling at a white woman and subsequent beating death to the violence perpetrated by Trayvon Martin upon George Zimmerman who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 5 Comments
That would be me. T-shirt idea:  “We engaged in institutional racism to fight white privilege, and all we got was more white privilege”: Elite colleges fail to enroll minority students T-shirt idea: “We threw money at the U.S. News rankings, and all we got were...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 29, 2013 18 Comments
Some Californians are giving new meaning to the phrase “surfing the web”. Large-scale rioting in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial verdict failed to materialize as predicted; however, after hosting a national surfing competition this weekend, a California beach town was the site of...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 28, 2013 8 Comments
In addition to the George Zimmerman trial, one case that Americans have been following closely is that of Cleveland’s notorious sex deviant and kidnapper, Ariel Castro. To avoid the death penalty for his crimes, Castro just made a deal that includes life in prison….with a...

Posted by New Neo on July 23, 2013 33 Comments
In the aftermath of the Zimmerman trial we see outrage and protest among those who think Zimmerman is guilty of something or other, even if the criminal justice system couldn’t quite put its finger on it. “He racially profiled Trayvon”—although there’s no evidence whatsoever of...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 21, 2013 30 Comments
As Professor Jacobson’s recent pictorial essay noted, there is something for both the left and right to hate about the Obama Administration’s use of drones. As the co-founder of San Diego’s first Tea Party group, I love the grassroots initiative displayed by the citizens of...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 20, 2013 76 Comments
The push for an economic boycott of Florida has ratcheted up in recent days, with some members of the Congressional Black Caucus now publicly supporting the idea of such an action.  The underlying target of their ire?  Stand Your Ground laws, of course. From The...
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