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Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 12 Comments

Paul McKinley, who had been the presumed winner in the Illinois special election to replace Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been confirmed as the GOP nominee by the state board of elections. There had been a few outstanding provisional ballots that precluded the runner-up, Republican...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2013 2 Comments

One man took a stand, and libertarianism broke out: Young Libertarians Defend Rand Paul From Establishment GOP Cal State Student: Give Me Liberty Or Death By Drones Knox College Student — Rand Paul is a Constitutional Realist Are Millennials going to become the great Libertarian generation? UNC Student: “Do Libertarians...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2013 21 Comments

Dear Professor, Greetings from Seaside CA and its "Obama Way". First civic homage I've seen to the potus and regrettably I didn't have any rolaids handy. Aurgh. Best, "Cheerful in Marin" ...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 39 Comments

Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city's NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server Nuria Kalifa-Jackson, wearing an anti-Israel shirt produced by CodePink, received a 10% tip...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 8 Comments

More headlines for Elizabeth Warren demanding that someone be prosecuted for something. But there's a catch. She's making headlines, once again, by asking questions of witnesses who cannot possibly answer them because they have no jurisdiction to implement criminal prosecutions, Warren starts taking on banks and regulators (emphasis...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 11 Comments

Last week. the Alabama legislature passed a bill approving school choice in a speedy series of votes that, according to one report, left the Senate "in chaos" when the Democrats realized what had happened. In reaction to being out-gamed, Democrats in the state House and...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 08, 2013 5 Comments

The state of the Secretaries of State One of John Kerry's first acts in office as Secretary of State was a good one. Lee Smith writes in John Kerry Roasts Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not a man who minces words. He has called...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 17 Comments

Officer, he was about 6'2", brown hair, blue eyes, refused to Coexist, told me to make his day. From commenter Henry Hawkins: Hah! The Perfesser might like this. It's a different sort of 'coexist' bumper sticker I stumbled across on eBay. Could be a case of mistaken idenity, he's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 53 Comments

Is what greeted me when I walked in the door tonight. And for once, she wasn't talking about me. "What the hell are McCain and Graham doing? I'm disgusted."...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 12 Comments

Very strange. Local police are quoted as saying they have identified two students possibly connected to the rash of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay writings on campus, but were uncertain as to their motives. As detailed yesterday, the Oberlin administration is not willing to talk about it, to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 37 Comments

In no particular order: Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Republican Guard and hastening their political demise. Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Democratic Guard The Guardian: Democrats Shamefully Silent on Obama Administration’s Assertion of Right to Assassinate Americans on U.S. Soil Rand Paul carried out a historic 13-hour filibuster of dronemaster-in-chief...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 07, 2013 19 Comments

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's 12-hour filibuster of John Brennan's nomination yesterday was so outstanding because brought people representing the entire spectrum of political belief together to defend constitutional due process rules. As a Palin Democrat, I would like to make an observation. As I conduct much of...

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 07, 2013 5 Comments

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Posted by David Gerstman on March 07, 2013 6 Comments

Those "apartheid" buses A number of British publications recently featured articles about some new Israeli bus lines devoted to transporting Arab residents of Judea and Samaria into Israel. These publications have outrageously called the buses, "apartheid" buses. Lori Lowenthal Marcus lays out some of the background (and...

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