ABC Speech Expert Suggests Zimmerman the Screamer "by significant margin"...
I’ve answered this question before. He knows, he knows. From Diana: Professor Jacobson, I enjoy your blog immensely and I’m glad that Cornell Law students get to hear at least one conservative viewpoint from the faculty. When I was there in the mid 1990s, we had Jonathan Macey...
Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati in July 2010 alerted a broad group of Washington IRS officials to the heightened scrutiny being given conservative groups, according to an interview...
Not someone you would expect to accuse others of crying wolf on privacy. Via Noah Rothman at Mediaite: Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University, defended the Obama administration on Friday and excoriated those in the media who he says are disseminating a number of half-truths...
46 years ago today using the Christian calendar. We celebrated the event on May 8 using the Hebrew calendar, 46 Hebrew calendar years ago Jerusalem was reunited: The abuse of Jewish historical and religious sites ended: “It felt like Messiah had come,” says Avigail Shlesinger, 81, of the...
Seventeen years ago, Charles Lane wrote A Man of Good Intentions about then Secretary of State Warren Christopher being kept waiting by Hafez al-Assad, father of the current Syrian President: And Assad went out of his way to humiliate Christopher, the American messenger of land-for-peace, when he...
"Christians have been the ones who’ve had to go underground and in the closet"...
Yesterday marked the start of the Zimmerman case Frye hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to determine whether expert testimony will be allowed at trial on the identity of the person screaming in the background of the Witness #11 911 call. The relevant portion of...
In the wake of the recent realization that the National Security Agency is creeping on all of us, Anonymous is now touting a trove of documents that the hacker collective says is proof that the NSA is spying on citizens of over 35 different countries. ...
That the government data mines isn't news. That the government has the ability to use secret judicial processes to obtain emails and phone records isn't news. The controversy over the latest revelations is a controversy about things which have been known -- at least in part -- for...
[caption id="attachment_54347" align="alignnone" width="391"] [Zimmerman at Frye hearing 6-6-13][/caption] The Zimmerman court is engaged in a pretrial Frye hearing that will decide, in part, whether the prosecution’s expert witnesses can testify about their analysis of an audio recording of the 911 call made by Witness #11,...
The latest revelation about how deeply the government can watch every one of us. Allegedly. Executives of companies involved say they know nothing about the program. But if they did know, could they tell? Or would they be under some sort of gag order similar to...
Conquering Mother Nature, not each other....
I have covered the #StopRush and various affiliated boycott campaigns against Rush Limbaugh organized and run by Media Matters as extensively as anyone: Media Matters astroturfed the Limbaugh secondary boycott Independent Rush boycott group coordinated with Media Matters Evidence of Media Matters coordination disappears from “independent” anti-Rush group website #StopRush turns on...
Chris Christie just announced that the NJ State Attorney General Jeff Chiesa will be appointed to the Senate pending the Special Election in October. Chiesa will not run in the primary or general election. Chiesa said in response to a question on immigration that need to secure...
From The Wall Street Journal, IRS Staff Cite Washington Link: Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency's Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010. Transcripts of the interviews, viewed Wednesday by The...
