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Posted by David Gerstman on March 05, 2013 1 Comment

1) More on AIPAC In addition to explaining how the two organizers put together the AIPAC conference, Tablet has a symposium, Do we still need a pro-Israel lobby? Though there are some good responses, the presence of Rebecca Vilkomerson and Alan Elsner as respondents is disappointing. Vilkomerson is...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2013 43 Comments

Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School regularly attacks other law professor bloggers in particularly nasty terms.  I didn't even know who Leiter was when an academic warned me that one day Leiter would target me, and that prediction came true. Leiter has an obsession with "crazed right-wing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2013 11 Comments

Really, as much as I didn't want to hear his name, Graeme Zielinksi was the perfect spokesman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party. A true reflection of the anti-Scott Walker politics practiced in Wisconsin: After a couple of tweets on March 1 comparing Walker to Jeffrey Dahmer, Zielinski...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2013 25 Comments

There is a growing consensus that Obama overplayed his hand in the absurd fear-mongering about the immediate impact of the sequester. While Republican's did their own share of fear-mongering as to military cuts, and thereby played into Obama's hand, it still was Obama's political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2013 19 Comments

Last week we examined the case of the Romeike family, which is facing deportation to Germany where they will be persecuted and possibly prosecuted for homeschooling their children, DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling. On Saturday night Mike Huckabee had a segment...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 04, 2013 4 Comments

1) Taking the lede in blaming Israel A number of bloggers have commented on the anti-Israel remarks made by Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan last week. Fortunatly, Secretary of State, John Kerry and others rebuked Turkey. Here's how the New York Times' anti-Israel blogger Robert Mackey provided context for the remarks: The Turkish prime minister has expressed his anger with...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 04, 2013 27 Comments

Back in the early 2000's, the Enron scandal lead to California's rolling blackouts.  As a result, as an environmental health and safety specialist, I began including information on handing power outages into company safety manuals. Now, thanks to "Green Energy", it looks like I am going to...

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 04, 2013 9 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2013 19 Comments

I'm watching a 60 Minutes segment about the Chinese real estate bubble: China has been nothing short of a financial miracle. In just 30 years, this state-controlled economy became the world's second largest, deftly managed by government policies and decrees. One sector the authorities concentrated on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2013 7 Comments

I didn't watch the Romney interview. I have nothing against him or Ann, I'm just not interested in fighting yesterday's battles. Learn from them, yes. Refight them, no.  Steve at Comment Cents has the video if you are interested. I spent some time on the attacks on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2013 10 Comments

Rush Limbaugh's broadcast a year ago on the day of Andrew Breibart's death, March 1, 2012. One of the best memorials I've heard. (h/t Stix Blog) For background on the lies told about Breitbart's Shirley Sherrod tape, and how it supposedly was misleading, see my post Repeat after...

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