Another one of those things that makes you go hmmm...
Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her. Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several...
What "medical research" will look like in the age of Obamacare...
Look at how dreamy Morning Joe treats Elizabeth Warren's "grilling" of bank regulators (it hardly was a grilling, just a single inane gotcha question she repeated over and over for dramatic effect): Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Now contrast that...
No water, no money, no reason to stay. From Mike: I sleep a little better knowing that not everyone in California is a loony leftie. I took the attached photos on Rt. 152 between Fresno and Los Banos in December. This is part of the Central Valley...
Last night I attended another candidates forum for the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having attended quite a few by this point, my main takeaway is that the people of the Second District have a sorry, sorry...
The Washington Free Beacon reported today about a speech Hagel gave in 2007 -- as reported at the time by one of his supporters -- that the State Department had become an "adjunct" to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Hagel supporters are fuming, but he was a...
The bubble stretches ever thinner...
This is a follow up to yesterday's post about Prisoner X. I'm not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it's clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts were...
Tax Prof is out with the year-end 2012 Law Prof Traffic Rankings. We continue to climb, but beware the gathering post-election blog traffic storm. Think Sandy meets Snowzilla. But for now, it's blue skies. (Keep in mind that these numbers are based on public Sitemeter readings, and since...
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The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday's magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama...
Tuesday night, Rand Paul (the freshman senator from Kentucky) gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union address, calling for cutting corporate taxes in half and slashing trillions in federal spending. Paul has been very busy. Today, the Washington Times reports that Paul...
This is a follow up to yesterday's Criminalize Fracking post. Gimme Coffee is an Ithaca coffee roaster and something of an institution. For a mere $4 or thereabouts, you can have quite a good latte. The coffee happens to be excellent, but it comes with a...
Former Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who was killed at a Texas gun range on February 8, was laid to rest Tuesday at the Texas State Cemetery. On Monday, 7,000 people attended a memorial service in his honor at the Cowboys Stadium. Many people are saying Kyle...
When Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles in mid 2003, he promised to focus on quality-of-life issues the way Rudy Giuliani had so successfully in New York. To Angelenos, the number one quality-of-life issue is transit. Pretty much everything else pales in comparison (as...
I talked to my mother last night, a long-time Democrat who voted for Obama this November. She said that she had tuned out the State of the Union address to pour a class of wine, because it was more of the "same, nasty rhetoric" she heard...
