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KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

There is a "Popularized Conception of Birthright Citizenship, Which May Not be Accurate"

Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused

When everything is a crime, government data mining matters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2013 65 Comments

I guess you could put me in the "concerned" category on the various -- and disputed -- accounts of how the government data mines phone records and obtains email and search information from internet companies. On the one hand, I'm concerned about those who have bad...

Harassment Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2013 2 Comments

Everything is harassment: The federal government has overreached on campus sexual harassment rules Literature Prof lampoons new federal government sexual harassment policy Such as: Cambridge Univ. law students stunned by graphic sexual questions on exam Co-eds filmed naked in shower in co-ed dorm at Middle Tenn. State NYU prof says fat...

Zimmerman Prosecution’s Voice Expert admits: “This is not really good evidence”

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 08, 2013 25 Comments

ABC Speech Expert Suggests Zimmerman the Screamer "by significant margin"...

Unfortunately, he knows already

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2013 1 Comment

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...

I hate to interrupt NSA-gate, but we’ve been fed lies about IRS-gate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 20 Comments

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...

Boxer and Influencer Jake Paul Says Charlie Kirk Would Have Been a President

Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt U. Invites Planned Parenthood Lawyers to Discuss Racial Justice

Pro-Trans Student Group at Brown Holds Rally to Criticize 'Anti-Trans' Laws

Teacher Unions Sounding Alarm Over New AI-Driven Classroom Model

Students Claim Required English Course at Texas A&M San Antonio Ties Standard English to ‘Oppression’

AAUP Backs Anti-ICE Campaign on College Campuses

Alan Dershowitz takes on anti-NSA narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 17 Comments

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 – Western Wall liberated from illegal Jordanian occupation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 8 Comments

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...

From Warren Christopher to John Kerry — Slow learners about weak horses in the Middle East

Posted by David Gerstman on June 07, 2013 13 Comments

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...

Banned in uniform — “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 20 Comments

"Christians have been the ones who’ve had to go underground and in the closet"...

Zimmerman Case: Dr. Hirotaka Nakasone, FBI, and the low-quality 3-second audio file

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 07, 2013 27 Comments

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...

Anonymous Leaks Not So Secret NSA Documents

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 07, 2013 8 Comments

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. ...

How the IRS scandal may damage PRISM and other anti-terror data mining

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 41 Comments

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...

Do lesser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 15 Comments

I don't get the mentality of this bumper sticker, spotted in Rhode Island. I never measured success by how much work I could avoid doing. ...

Zimmerman case: Out of the Frye-ing pan, into the spectagraph

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 06, 2013 23 Comments

[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,...

Did PRISM watch me create this blog post?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2013 36 Comments

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...

Two countries, two droughts, two outcomes — how Israel wins

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2013 9 Comments

Conquering Mother Nature, not each other....

More evidence #StopRush has failed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2013 15 Comments

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...