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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2011 21 Comments
For almost the entire two and one-half years I’ve been blogging I’ve had to put up with Paul Krugman accusing Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party supporters of inciting violence through heated rhetoric over policy differences, particularly Obamacare. I’ve even started a tag for Paul Krugman, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 11 Comments
The conspiracy theories run deep at Think Progress when it comes to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Koch Industries. The latest post by Lee Fang, the designated Koch investigator at Think Progress, attempts to bring David Prosser into the conspiracy as well, by claiming that recent environmental...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 15 Comments
I’ve had a chance to read Obama’s budget speech, and have seen clips on television. I was right in my anticipation that Obama would play the blame Bush game, and that he would demonize the “Top 2%,” and he did.  With gusto. But even I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2011 12 Comments
After the budget deal was announced late last night, Obama gave a speech, apparently reading a teleprompter once again, which was nothing short of bizarre. Obama gave a campaign speech, with the Washington Monument in the backdrop, and with the now-typical story of some letter...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2011 8 Comments
I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest speaker at the Independent Media class taught by Jeff Cohen at Ithaca College.  One of the students posted about it: “My independent media professor invited William A. Jacobson, creator of conservative blog “Legal Insurrection,” to our class...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 02, 2011 18 Comments
Kathleen City Journal‘s Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov’s 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War. journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 29, 2011 1 Comment
Kathleen McCaffrey — Anne Applebaum, one of my favorite writers, posted a really fascinating article in Slate last night. Applebaum explores the motives of Sarkozy’s Libya campaign: The man who introduced Sarkozy to the Benghazi rebels is none other than Bernard-Henri Lévy, a pop philosopher...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2011 3 Comments
The Obama administration declined to use military force in Libya until obtaining the authorization of the U.N. Security Council.  Put aside for now whether such authorization was necessary and whether U.S. Congressional authorization also was needed. The U.S. and coalition offensive military action clearly exceeds the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 27, 2011 7 Comments
Kathleen McCaffrey As I have mentioned before, my friend Jonathan is studying in Syria — one of the few American students there. His latest blog entry, dated the 23rd of March, offers tremendous insight. Since his blog is probably being monitored, I’ve chosen to copy/paste...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2011 14 Comments
The legal situation in Wisconsin is a mess.  Judge Maryann Sumi preemptively issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) which she thought (see below) would stop the publication of the budget repair bill, and therefore prevent the bill from becoming law.  This was an unprecedented move, and none...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2011 38 Comments
A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge has issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the publication (i.e. implementation) of the budget repair bill. I have not seen the opinion yet — it is unclear whether there is a written opinion or this was issued orally from the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 16, 2011 24 Comments
From The Corner: she is almost entirely a creature of liberals who want to use her as a prop to discredit and attack conservatives. I gather Meghan thinks she is some kind of youth recruiter for a hipper form of conservatism or Republicanism or something....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2011 36 Comments
Thanks to a reader in Wisconsin for sending me this link to a press release from the Recall Jim Holperin Committee and video posted at the website of conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes, regarding intimidation efforts directed against Republicans seeking signatures on recall petitions against one...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 12, 2011 11 Comments
Some people never learn: HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The natural disaster of a tsunami could actually provide a temporary boost to the global economy. Larry Summers, former director of President Obama’s economic council and a former head of the World Bank, said rebuilding could temporarily boost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2011 26 Comments
Regardless of who emerges as the political winner or loser in Madison, Wisconsin, one thing is clear, law enforcement — from the Madison police, to the Dane County Sheriff’s office, to the Capitol and State police — have lost credibility as neutral players in this political standoff....
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