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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 20 Comments

Not long ago Politico's Maggie Haberman ran an anti-Palin opinion piece masquerading as news analysis, Sarah Palin’s next act: Candidate or ‘Kardashian’? I addressed that false choice in my post, Politico’s next act: Real News Organization or Gawker (no offense to Gawker), noting that Palin had backed numerous successful Republican...

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Posted by Anne Segal on March 27, 2013 17 Comments

Amid the tales of sequestration travails, observing the response by Yellowstone National Park to a 5% cut in the National Park Service's budget reveals just what priorities are being applied by administrators. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk's handling of the situation: freeze permanent hires, hire fewer seasonal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 25 Comments

Matt Lewis has a very interesting take on the "culture wars," The culture war was never a fair fight (emphasis): Let's take a step back for a moment first. Many prominent conservatives, like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, argue that conservatives just want to be left alone. In...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 34 Comments

That's the format of a joke I often told about calling up state regulators when I was in private practice. They go off duty at 5 p.m., so the phone stops being answered at a few minutes before because a conversation started at 4:57...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 4 Comments

Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm.  There was  a truly abysmal threat to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 23 Comments

There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren's made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee. Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing "too big to fail" and "too big to prosecute," but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong way...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

John Kerry is not making much diplomatic progress on anything, unless you consider forcing Israel to apologize for acting lawfully in the face of aggression to be progress. Maybe he's been heading too many soccer balls. MT @markhalperin: John Kerry avec soccer ball on his head, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 25 Comments

Touré Neblett has built his career with the worst race card baiting, directed at conservatives and the Tea Party in general, and black conservatives in particular. Now Touré is targeting Dr. Ben Carson. It's a shame that someone with the accomplishments of Dr. Carson even needs to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 4 Comments

If you have been a reader here for more than a few weeks, you probably have seen one of the many posts about Pallywood (sometimes referred to as Paliwood), the Palestinian cottage industry of creating faux events to stir up public opinion against Israel. There's another...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 26, 2013 13 Comments

Republican Paul McKinley, candidate to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., for Congress in the upcoming April 9 special election (IL-02), has just released a new ad that illustrates in sobering detail the destruction wrought by the Chicago Democratic Machine. The video lays bare what the people face...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 36 Comments

The oral argument just concluded.  The audio will be posted later.  Update -- Audio is here. Transcript is here. Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits -- as if the spin matters. I'll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of spin meter. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 13 Comments

Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case.  Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It's hard to believe that this day has arrived.  We have been covering Prop 8 almost since...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

I was reviewing World War I history with my son yesterday. The global-scale conflict started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914.  This event set in motion a series of diplomatic incidents that led inexorably to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 24 Comments

Just whatever you want. It's going to take really, really big breaking news for me to post anything. UPDATE by Leslie Eastman: As I read this, I suddenly realized why it was going to take "big breaking news". So, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish Professor Jacobson...

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