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Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Lawyer Among Three Arrested in Violent Restaurant Attack on Hebrew-Speaking Diners

Replacing History With Wildlife: The Suicidal Insanity of Anti-Western Ideology

“Since the state will never really leave us alone”

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...

It’s 4:57 p.m., and the Doctor is not picking up the phone

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...

DOMA day at Supreme Court

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...

Elizabeth Warren’s $22 intellectual Waterloo

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...

A little evening palate cleanser

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...

Authorities Believe Death of U. Alabama Student Found in Spain was Accidental

Education Dept. Shifts Control of Student Loans to Treasury in Move to Dismantle Department

Turning Point USA Claims Manchester Community College Violated Its 1st Amendment Rights

Venezuelan Migrant Arrested After Student From Loyola Chicago is Fatally Shot Near Campus

Leftist Students at UC-Santa Barbara Demand ‘Sanctuary’ Campus

Faculty Members at Boston University Object After Pride Flags Are Removed Under New Policy

It’s a shame Dr. Ben Carson even needs to respond to the likes of Touré

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...

Curtis Bostic endorsed by Santorum in #SC01 primary against Mark Sanford

Posted by Anne Segal on March 26, 2013 5 Comments

In the race to replace now-Senator Tim Scott's vacated House seat, Republicans Curtis Bostic and Mark Sanford are facing off in the runoff election preceding the May 7 special election. The date for the runoff election is April 2, just one week away, and occurs when...

Pallywood — the longest running series in the history of fiction

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...

“He is probably the most pathetic tool on the face of the earth”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 12 Comments

Greg Gutfeld on Jim Carrey. Good stuff. Via Poor Richards News: ...

Paul McKinley Gives Walking Tour of #IL02 Devastation

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...

Reaction to Prop 8 oral argument (Audio added)

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. ...

Prop 8 day at Supreme Court

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...

Cyprus loco Euro-problem gone wild

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...

Two out of three ain’t bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 17 Comments

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Monday Night Open

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...

The real estate market’s demographic problem in “the most depressing” chart ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 9 Comments

How low is low? Has real estate bottomed out? Via @TheBubbleBubble, some advice about not thinking the real estate bubble is done imploding: I'd have no business whatsoever buying houses until this demographic tsunami is well underway, which years from now: businessinsider.com/matt-kings-mos…— Jesse Colombo(@TheBubbleBubble) March 25,...

FWIW – Kagan 2009: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage”

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

That's the statement Elena Kagan made back in 2009 when she was going through confirmation proceedings to become Solicitor General (emphasis added): 1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by...