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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 3 Comments

In response to my most recent post regarding the two year anniversary of the death of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto, I was contacted by reader Kate in Texas who suggested I alert other readers to Sand Soldiers of America: I read last night about the post you have...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 62 Comments

From reader Tim, who writes: Was on pump in Wilmington NC earlier this week. Looks like No new oil from anwr, east coast, the gulf. No pipeline from Canada $4 gal Thanks Obama voters I can't imagine that signs like that aren't popping up all across America. Looks like Tim is  right,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 20 Comments

That's the Good News. The Bad News - It's a list of The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In 2012 from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Widener joins such elite institutions of higher learning as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis and Tufts. Here's the FIRE write-up of why Widener is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 17 Comments

Psalm 137 Global March on Jerusalem:  "In December, Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh announced the march, calling for the establishment of “the ‘Army of Jerusalem’… in order to take action to liberate Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.”" Hamas demolishes homes, beats residents in Rafah.  Oh, that Hamas. State Department still won't say...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 38 Comments

This has been a really bad day for eliminationist narratives of a rising right-wing terror. First, it turns out that George Zimmerman, rather than being a product of Republican / Tea Party / right-wing talk radio, was a registered Democrat. Now, a federal judge has dismissed all...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 100 Comments

Via The Crawdad Hole, a very interesting chart of FBI crime statistics for 2009. What it shows is that whites kill whites, and blacks kill blacks.  And interestingly, "other" kills "other." It's not the narrative heard much in the media, because it does not play into stereotypes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 57 Comments

Tom Goldstein at ScotusBlog has an interim report: Based on the questions posed to Paul Clement, the lead attorney for the state challengers to the individual mandate, it appears that the mandate is in trouble.  It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 5 Comments

It has been a bad week for Dick Lugar: But it just got worse. A critical part of Lugar's campaign narrative is the scare tactic that if Richard Mourdock is the nominee, the seat may be lost to Democrats.  I've addressed that argument before, pointing out that Democrat Joe...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 75 Comments

Kohler, based in Wisconsin, has joined the Rush Limbaugh boycott, according to tweets it sent out yesterday from its Twitter account, @Kohler: It is not clear that Kohler actually ever advertised on the Limbaugh show, almost certainly not nationally.  This may be another of the pre-emptive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 8 Comments

Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll "Lex" LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March 6th,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 7 Comments

This has some great ones, including a take off on the Coexist sticker, and a "You are not entitled to what I have earned" sticker.  But the best is the WORST. From reader Tim: I snapped a shot of these in the lot at Best Buy, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 251 Comments

I predicted Saturday night that the Trayvon Martin case was being set up for an explosive outcome in which expectations of a conviction faced the reality of the rights of an accused and evidence which cast "reasonable doubt" on what happened. Two developments today make the facts supporting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 6 Comments

The refusal of the State Department to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, and to issue passports listing Jerusalem as a birthplace in Israel, made its way to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that courts can decide the issue under U.S. statutes.  While it appears to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 19 Comments

This morning was the first day of oral argument in the Supreme Court on challenges to Obamacare.  The audio should be available in a little while. Today was the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, which arguably would prohibit court involvement if the mandate were viewed as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 45 Comments

Herman Cain's Sick of Stimulus website has released a new web ad. It's right up there with the "greats" of web ads.  (h/t Robert Costa, who says he is speechless.) Update:  This reaction from one of the people behind the Rush boycott actually is quite unintentionally funny: And, Cain...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 76 Comments

Notice how the Obama captured when he doesn't think he is being recorded is so differenct from campaign Obama.  The  "bitter clinger" remarks and the Netanyahu put-down are the most memorable. And there are the hot mic sound bites which the media won't release, like CBS refusing to...

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