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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...

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...

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...