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Biden's last-minute pardons "proved beyond any doubt that there really was a Biden crime family"

Trump's Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer

Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project

4th Circuit tosses Virginia Obamacare suit on “standing” grounds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 13 Comments

The 4th Circuit has dismissed Virginia's Obamacare mandate suit, which Virginia won in the District Court, on the ground that the Attorney General did not have "standing" to sue (meaning that he was not a person legally entitled to sue). I haven't seen the opinion yet,...

Post-Debate Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 14 Comments

I thought Romney did well last night, as did Perry (although expectations were higher for Perry). Newt was the star. But, Romney's post-debate performance by his messaging team was horrid, playing the "kill social security card" on Perry. We can quibble about whether the social security...

Ann Coulter’s Moment of Weakness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 49 Comments

On The O'Reilly Factor (with Laura Ingraham sitting in) the other night, Ann Coulter claimed the status of the only brave conservative on TV willing to criticize Sarah Palin (full transcript at the link, video here): And it doesn't really matter, I might add, that, oh, it's...

Let the Libya “unexpected” consequences begin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 5 Comments

Such as a "no fly zone" over all of northern Africa, spreading across the globe, because while we broke Muammar Gaddafi's army, we didn't fix the problem of tens of thousands of mobile surface-to-air missiles. As reported by the Christian Science Monitor: At newly discovered weapons-storage sites,...

They have tried everything, but it’s still Detroit

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 6 Comments

They tried, that's for sure: On Sunday, September 14 [2008] at 2:00 p.m. in Detroit's riverside Hart Plaza, more than a thousand individuals of every faith are expected to join together for "I Lift Detroit in prayer." This interfaith ceremony is open to the public and...

Northeastern U. Hosting Party to Celebrate New Abortion Pills on Campus

Columbia University Increasing Security After Anti-Israel Protesters Barged Into Classroom

Conservative Student Newspaper at Harvard Wins Fight to Distribute on Campus

Sonoma State University Makes Massive Cuts and Ends Athletics

Georgetown U. Looking to Hire Transgender Studies Literature Professor

U.S. Dept. of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI Policies

Republican Reagan Library Debate – Open (Tweet of the Night added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 24 Comments

Not going to be "live blogging" it, but will make some observations. Your comments are welcome. Update 8:40 p.m. - at the first break, I can't say there are any clear winners or losers. Romney is doing well, dealing with his "issues" without any real problem. Perry...

Maybe they all will break out in song during Obama’s speech, on a Gibson guitar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 15 Comments

I wonder if he will get a shout out during the speech: Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson Guitar, will attend President Obama's address to Congress on Thursday as a guest of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). Federal agents raided Gibson factories in Tennessee last month as part...

The Nanny State Doesn’t Like Competition

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 07, 2011 20 Comments

From babysitters, that is. From the WSJ: [A proposed bill in California] would require parents to pay caregivers over the age of 18 minimum wage plus overtime, allow a 10-minute rest every four hours and a half-hour meal break after five hours, reports ABC News. The bill was written...

Silence is golden and speaks louder than any teleprompter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 20 Comments

Love this move: Republicans have decided they're not going to give a rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took as a high affront to the White House. At least three GOP lawmakers also have announced they're not going...

Erick Erickson: “moving on from Sarah Palin is like leaving Scientology”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 146 Comments

I guess that makes me a Scientologist, because I've posted repeatedly that Palin holds a special position because there is no one -- not even George W. Bush -- who has been the subject of the Democratic, mainstream media and left-blogosphere smear machine to the extent Palin has. So...

“Smart Girl” Janis Kelly for Mayor … of Ithaca!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 12 Comments

You want to see me spike the football so hard the earth will shake harder than in the D.C. Earthquake? You have not seen anything like what will take place here if Janis Kelly, Republican and unabashed Tea Party supporter, is elected Mayor of Ithaca. You...

I accept no responsibility

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 16 Comments

for bumper stickers in a foreign language, or in Spanish. But I get the gist of this one just by trying to pronounce it. Thanks to reader John in Texas who writes: Recent reports have President Obama's popularity slipping in the Hispanic community. If this bumper sticker...

NY9 prediction

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2011 7 Comments

There's an interesting race shaping up in heavily Democratic NY9 to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner (whose Twitter account was proven by the left-blogosphere to have been hacked by Andrew Breitbart, until it turned out it wasn't). Republican Bob Turner is facing off against Democrat...

Just what Wisconsin doesn’t need, an open mtgs rule for Sup Ct deliberations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2011 25 Comments

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson appears to have lost not only the confidence of some Justices on the Court, but the ability to lead the Court. The latest incident, in which (liberal) Justice Ann Walsh Bradley charged with fist raised at (conservative) Justice David Prosser,...

Jet propelled back home

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 06, 2011 10 Comments

from overseas to the U.S.A. Good afternoon, all! I'm back from my summer at The Wall Street Journal Europe where I interned as a Bartley Fellow. I'm now in my senior year at Cornell & I will try to post here as much as I can as...

Rhode Island leads the way (into the fiscal abyss)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2011 5 Comments

You know all about Rhode Island's pension and other fiscal problems stemming from an out-of-control public sector which made promises which could be kept only under the most rosy of scenarios, in a state almost completely controlled by unions: Is Rhode Island Our Future Under Obama? High...

Michele Bachmann doubles down on Ed Rollins