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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2013 17 Comments

Or as they say on the internet, NOOOO!!!! Via Byron York: South Carolinians: What is your reaction to this? ow.ly/hOgon — Byron York (@ByronYork) February 18, 2013 Update:  Ugh. Erick Erickson, I Endorse Mark Sanford for Congress.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2013 12 Comments

From John: Living in New England I'm used to being surrounded by those on the opposite end of the political spectrum from myself. Liberals, more often than Conservatives, like to advertize their liberalism in the form of bumper stickers. Here's one such self-congratulating Liberal I found...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 20 Comments

I don't claim to be a marketing genius, and I don't drink much (at which point you collectively say, "that explains a lot"), but it truly made no sense to me when Maker's Mark decided to dilute its bourbon. It has surrendered to the outcry: You spoke....

Posted by Joel Engel on February 17, 2013 10 Comments

It’s a good thing for anti-Semites that Israel exists.  If it weren’t for the Jewish state, they’d have no place to hide their “socialism of fools.”  What used to be considered déclassé—“Jews run the world,”etc.—can now be safely repackaged with little or no criticism as...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 17, 2013 11 Comments

News this morning that one of the three leading contenders for the Democratic nomination in the special election to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., Toi Hutchinson, has dropped out of the race and endorsed Machine-pick Robin Kelly. This may or may not be related to news recently surfacing...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 103 Comments

The nature of the hostility directed at me has changed over the years. In 2008-2010, it was mostly Obama supporters upset that someone who taught at an Ivy League law school would dissent.  I guess they figured their love letters weren't working, so that has mostly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 7 Comments

As many of you know, Ed Burns implemented a custom design for the blog, including many custom features both in front and behind the scenes, and also transferred all of our posts and comments from Blogger when we moved in June 2011. Ed also helped us roll out...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 17, 2013 12 Comments

As my San Diego compatriot Dean Riehm notes: Russia has become to meteors/meteorites what trailer parks have been to tornadoes. Yesterday, a space object thought to be a "tiny asteroid" exploded over the Russia. The ensuing shock wave shattered glass throughout the region, injuring over 1000...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 16, 2013 35 Comments

When Professor Jacobson reported that cancer funding research had been used to smear the Tea Party, calling it a tool of a big tobacco and the Koch brothers based on plans hatched over a decade ago, I had one thought: Anti-Tea Party advocates suffer from the single...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 58 Comments

Ted Cruz is making all the right enemies, and they are out for him often and early. For Marco Rubio the meme is WATER, for Cruz it's NASTY. The title of this NY Times article originally was Ted Cruz Runs Counter To The Senate's Courtly Ways, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 31 Comments

In her debut on the Senate Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren once again became the hero of the left because she embarrassed Hapless Bank Regulators, as the Huffington Post put it: Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that Elizabeth...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 2 Comments

No, it's not what you think: College Insurrection Calls For Student Submissions! We will never submit, never, we will fight them in the Quad, in the library, on the slope: Cornell Conservative Students Push Back Against “Social Justice” Course Requirement You Should Make a Free Speech Wall at Your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 10 Comments

From Scott: Apparently this much stupid does, in fact, play in Peoria...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 15, 2013 28 Comments

Here’s a lesson in the wages of appeasement. When the manhunt for Christopher Dorner got desperate, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck panicked and announced that he planned to reinvestigate Dorner’s firing which the former cop, according to his Facebook manifesto, blamed on racism. Beck insisted that the new...

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