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Harris Once Again Struggles With Basic Economic Questions

'Important Truth': Hillary Defends Calling Trump Supporters 'Deplorables'

U. Arkansas-Walmart Joint BIPOC-Only Mentor Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project

What do Intrade and Nate Silver show for who’s winning the Cairo Street?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 15 Comments

I'm going to do this the way I did the U.S. presidential election. Going with my gut. I'm "betting" on (but not rooting for) the Islamists. Unlike the presidential election, I will be right. 'Deadly' clashes at Egypt presidential palace: Supporters of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi attacked opposition protesters...

Fiscal Cliff — the Christmas strategy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 22 Comments

So many headlines, so little news. Boehner: Obama must make the next move on ‘fiscal cliff’ “If the president doesn’t agree with our proposal and our outline, I think he’s got an obligation to send one to the Congress and a plan that can pass both chambers...

NY Post photo of subway death incites phony outrage …

Posted by Joel Engel on December 05, 2012 12 Comments

... from news media who would kill for a story...

It’s never been about the 1967 borders

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 14 Comments

Interesting post at an interesting blog run by Yaacov Lozowick for the Israeli State Archives, What's a Proportional Response? Here's a fascinating document from December 13th 1955, in which the Ministers' Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs discussed a clash which had taken place two nights...

Is it too late for progressives and the Tea Party movement to unite against the Obamacare monstrosity?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 19 Comments

Short answer, Yes. But please keep reading, anyway. I have pointed out many times that we should not be fooled into siding with large corporations just because the left claims to hate them. The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. We saw that in...

Jewish Advocacy Group Files Antisemitism Complaint Against Haverford College

Faculty Members at Arizona State U. Condemn ‘White Ownership’ of Shakespeare

Boise State U. Women's Volleyball Team Forfeits Game Against Opposing Team With Male Player

Report Suggests 'Faculty for Justice in Palestine' has Crucial Role in Rise of Campus Antisemitism

Cornell First-Year Enrollment of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans Drops Following Affirmative Action Ban

Law Professors Lead the Assault on the United States Constitution

Private Idaho

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 4 Comments

From Katja, the first of two: Dear Professor Jacobson, I hope you enjoy these bumper sticker photos. The first one ("It takes a village") was taken in a church parking lot in Post Falls, Idaho, the first time my family and I were ever anywhere near this area. Being...

Worst sentence of 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 18 Comments

.... maybe ever: "He's a nice guy, but he's in over his head."...

Since Obama insists that rates rise, and they are, what’s the problem?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 15 Comments

Today seems like a slow fiscal cliff news day, after the drama of the past couple of days. The only news seems to be that Obama is digging in on marginal tax rates: President Obama on Tuesday rejected a GOP offer for avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff and...

Elizabeth Warren heads to banking committee (but she’s still not Cherokee)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 10 Comments

Did you hear the one about Elizabeth Warren on the banking committee? It is the big scoop today at HuffPo: Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will...

Charities squeal at math of Obama tax increases on the wealthy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 21 Comments

Update -- Charities' pain is the nanny state's gain...

Progressive fund retires consumer debt (now if only they were as concerned about our national debt)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 32 Comments

I have been pretty harsh on liberal blogger Allison Kilkenny in the past for her playing the Nork Card on John Bolton and the "sexy" card on Sarah Palin, her hysteria over Catholic charities, and her misfire on Bill Sparkman. She was a big cheerleader for...

Tea Party tidal surge, not tsunami

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 04, 2012 14 Comments

I am responding to Professor Jacobson's recent post, The Tea Party tsunami at the gates. As the Media Director of SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition (SCTRC), San Diego's original Tea Party group, I wanted to share my analysis that it won't be a tsunami -- it will...

Branco Cartoon – Taxing and Spending and Taxing and..

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 04, 2012 5 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

Sorry, no appointments until June

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 17 Comments

Well, at least it's not 10 years from this afternoon. Yet. Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Yes, Lawrence, there is a photograph of Zimmerman’s bloody nose

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 26 Comments

Remember when ABC obtained a police station surveillance tape which supposedly showed no injuries to George Zimmerman, thereby allegedly disproving his claim that he was being beaten when he shot Trayvon Martin? The Martin family lawyer along with plenty of left-wing blogs (including a once-famous photo...

Laughing in their faces

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 6 Comments

From Gabriella Hoffman, the daughter of Soviet immigrants, two gems. If they could laugh in the face of Soviet Russia ...

GOP counter-offers Erskine Bowles to Obama’s la-la-land (Update — Obama rejects out of hand, wants his pound of tax rate increases)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 29 Comments

Via The Hill (h/t Drudge): House Republican leaders have made a counteroffer to President Obama in the fiscal cliff negotiations, proposing to cut $2.2 trillion with a combination of spending cuts, entitlement reforms and $800 billion in new tax revenue. The leaders delivered the offer to the...