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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...

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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...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 10 Comments

President Obama spoke to students at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago this afternoon, using the occasion to address a basket of issues, including gun control, raising the minimum wage, education spending, and the overall state of our communities. During the 26-minute speech, Obama said that he...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 11 Comments

A criminal Information was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. this afternoon in which Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged with one count of criminal conspiracy, and forfeiture of assets was sought. The Information alleged that approximately $750,000 of campaign funds was misappropriated for personal expenses,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 50 Comments

One of the saddest stories you will read is the story of Jennifer Morbelli, who died recently along with her unborn daughter during a very late term abortion in Maryland. The story originally was reported by Jill Stanek.  In a series of posts, Robert Stacy McCain reported on...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her. Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

No water, no money, no reason to stay. From Mike: I sleep a little better knowing that not everyone in California is a loony leftie. I took the attached photos on Rt. 152 between Fresno and Los Banos in December. This is part of the Central Valley...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 13 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 11 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about Prisoner X. I'm not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it's clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 18 Comments

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...

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