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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...

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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...

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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...

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 14, 2013 9 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday's magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 14, 2013 28 Comments

Tuesday night, Rand Paul (the freshman senator from Kentucky) gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union address, calling for cutting corporate taxes in half and slashing trillions in federal spending. Paul has been very busy.  Today, the Washington Times reports that Paul...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 27 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's Criminalize Fracking post. Gimme Coffee is an Ithaca coffee roaster and something of an institution.  For a mere $4 or thereabouts, you can have quite a good latte.  The coffee happens to be excellent, but it comes with a...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 13, 2013 27 Comments

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...

Posted by Joel Engel on February 13, 2013 32 Comments

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...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 13, 2013 15 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 38 Comments

The mother of all mysteries, making Stuxnet look like a B-grade movie, is unfolding in Israel over Prisoner X. The New York Times has a good summary: The story had all the trappings of a spy thriller: an anonymous prisoner linked to Israel’s secret service, Mossad, isolated in...

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