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When They Say 'Globalize The Intifada' They Mean Like The New Orleans Terrorist Mass Murder

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): RFK, Jr. "Wants To Kill Our Kids"

Meet the Deflection: Schumer Denies Democrats Misled on Biden’s Decline

The “unexpected” oil sands decision (of 2013)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 13 Comments

I've been receiving e-mails from readers in the past weeks insisting that Obama would kill the pipeline planned to bring "oil sands" oil from Canada to the U.S. Given the Obama administration's policies to date, such expectation was reasonable. The environmental movement made the oil sands...

Irene Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 14 Comments

Looks like it was "just" a Category 1 when it hit North Carolina. I'll be interested to see what happens as it moves up the coast, because a shift East would be bad news for my home in Rhode Island. We're not on the beach, but...

Walker Beats Runners

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 4 Comments

Thanks to reader Phil, who spotted this bumper sticker in Appleton, Wisconsin: ...

Turns out WI Justice Ann Walsh Bradley was the one with the anger management problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 65 Comments

I have focused from the beginning of the scuffle between Wisconsin Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and David Prosser on Bradley's accusation that Prosser used a "chokehold" on her. As I have detailed before, "chokehold" is a very specific term recognized by Wisconsin courts as being...

Two words missing from Ben Bernanke’s 3,500-word statement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 18 Comments

Ben Bernanke gave a very lengthy answer to the question "why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic?," but Bernanke danced around the obvious: Why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic? Historically, recessions have typically sowed the seeds of their own recoveries...

Frat Members at San Diego State U. Charged After Pledge is 'Set on Fire' at Party

Couple That Threw Firebombs at U. Pittsburgh Michael Knowles Event Sentenced to Prison and Fined

U. Texas at Austin President Leaving School After Trying to Implement a More Conservative Vision

Rutgers Law School Published Paper With Multiple False Anti-Israel Talking Points

Lynn University Prof Proclaims Innocence After Being Accused of Living in a 'Nazi Fantasy'

NY Times Reporter Admits Regret Over Role in Kavanaugh Smear Campaign

The importance of independent bloggers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 36 Comments

It's lonely out here in independent blogger world, working for the greater glory not the greater paycheck. That's not to say bloggers who work for The Man are not independent thinkers and writers, but the pressures are there depending upon who The Man is: An escalating series of...

MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough Intro’d House Res. Condemning Sharpton’s “Racist,” “Anti-Semitic” Views

Posted by Matthew Knee on August 26, 2011 11 Comments

In honor of Sharpton's new position as an MSNBC host, a link to the full resolution, courtesy of the GPO. From Scarborough's whereases: Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘‘bloodsucking [J]ews’’, and ‘‘Jew bastards’’; Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has...

It’s nice to be needed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 6 Comments

Thanks to frequent photographer Jason for this photo taken earlier this week in Greenville, NC: ...

Judge William Young sentencing the shoe bomber

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 14 Comments

I had heard this before, but stumbling upon it this afternoon, I thought it worth reprinting because few people are aware of it. It's the sentencing of shoe bomber Richard Reid by U.S. District Court (Massachusetts) Judge William Young in January 2003, in full: Mr. Richard C....

Foreplay and America are back, baby!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 14 Comments

A ringing endorsement of Rick Perry from Kinky Friedman, with as many laughs per square inch as any endorsement I have ever seen (emphasis mine): I have been quoted as saying that when I die, I am to be cremated, and the ashes are to be thrown in...

No charges against Prosser; time for Bradley to step down

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 16 Comments

Wisconsin Justice Ann Walsh Bradley accused Justice David Prosser of using an illegal "chokehold" on her. At the time, I pointed out that if the charge was not sustained, and Bradley falsely had accused Prosser of using a potentially life threatening "chokehold," Bradley needed to step...

An Apple what if

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 11 Comments

Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO of Apple, likely for good. What a lesson Apple holds. I've never bought an Apple computer or "device" (although I did get an iPod as a gift), but I'll never forget my amazement in law school in the early 1980s...

So tell me about West Virginia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 20 Comments

John Conyers (D-Mich), via The Hill, talking about West Virginia: “There’s a big campaign going on about how you clean coal, and we want to examine that as critically and fairly as we can, but here’s the problem: I’ve been to West Virginia, and that’s about...

I’ve never met a real charter member

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2011 5 Comments

Thanks to reader Marisa who writes that the photo was ...

Is Romney the new Rudy?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2011 17 Comments

Rudy famously waited too long in 2008, by skipping Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, assuming he would win big in Florida. He didn't, because by the time the primaries arrived in Florida, Rudy was an also ran. Back in July I suggested that Mitt Romney...

Allen West on Libya, Egypt, etc.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2011 7 Comments

It's not often I thank Think Progress, but thanks for this video interview of Allen West on the issue of Obama foreign policy in Libya and the Middle East. Think Progress, with its videographer following West on his trip to Israel, figured they'd get good...

Well, it could have been Krugman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2011 13 Comments

Someone created a faux Paul Krugman Google+ account and posted the following: People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage. The message sent out on Twitter...