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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

Because it’s worked so well for him so far

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 24 Comments

Obama plans a fall offensive against Republicans, according to The Hill (via JWF and Instapundit): President Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts -- the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who want to...

Welcome to Irene-Hype Central

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 5 Comments

Rhode Island still is without power in much of the state, including my neighborhood. National Grid is estimating that power will not be restored to the entire town until September 5. As of yesterday, as reported by The Providence Journal: Electrical power was the biggest casualty of...

I haven’t recovered yet from the first

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 11 Comments

Thanks to reader Greg who writes: I’m a young Legal Insurrection reader from North Carolina. I designed this anti-Obama bumper sticker and would really appreciate if you could help me spread the design so people can re-post or print it themselves. The beauty is that at...

Widener Law School fundraising leader criticizes sanctions imposed on Prof. Lawrence Connell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 4 Comments

I previously posted about the resignation of Capt. (Ret.) Robert P. Taishoff, a major donor to Widener Law School and Chair of the school's fundraising campaign, Widener Law School loses major donor over Connell case. I indicated that I had seen the text of Taishoff's resignation communication,...

The Madison Flotilla

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 9 Comments

I should know never to make a categorical statement about anything, because I have several thousand fact checkers/helpers. This morning I joked that I had not seen any boats involved in the Madison protests. Thanks to reader Patricia for sending me a link to a post about the...

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

Ohio College Students Protest Bill That Would Ban DEI Policies

Trump Following Through on Plan to Return American Education 'Back to the States'

Clarence Thomas on verge of victory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 15 Comments

That's a theme in a very worthwhile article about Thomas written by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker: These tempests obscure a larger truth about Thomas: that this year has also been, for him, a moment of triumph. In several of the most important areas of ...

From “the best and the brightest” to “the best of the worst”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 11 Comments

The Kennedy administration has been described as having attracted the best and the brightest to government service, sometimes with bad but well-intentioned results. I don't know Alan Krueger, Obama's new head of the Council of Economic Advisers. But Ezra Klein claims to know a lot about Krueger,...

They have boats in Wisconsin?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 8 Comments

I never knew they had boats in Wisconsin. Is it on a lake or something? I didn't see any boats in the videos of the protests in Madison. But then again, they also didn't seem to have a sense of humor in Madison, unlike the owner...

Add this to the list

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 25 Comments

of stories about Obama's demise about which I am skeptical. Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard argues that the media lovefest for Obama has weakened Obama by making him lazy: As a rule, the press is the scourge of presidents. They’re expected to endure unending scrutiny, mistrust,...

I never realized there was such a thing as …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 40 Comments

a "heavy duty teleprompter." From the DC Examiner, on the occasion of Obama's three-minute announcement of the appointment of a new economic adviser: President Obama required two heavy-duty teleprompters on Monday during a three-minute speech in which he nominated Alan Krueger to serve as chairman of his...

Irene wasn’t overhyped in train- and drive-through country

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 22 Comments

The after-Irene hype is that Irene was overhyped. Yes, maybe in the big cities Irene was no biggie. It's easy for a Philly Inquirer columnist to refer to Irene as a "Category Feh" hurricane. But in those areas of the northeast which city dwellers normally only train or drive...

Yes, but

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 11 Comments

Obama's disapproval rating hit a new high in the Gallup daily survey: I would not put too much weight on this. Yes, it is reflective of a growing discontent. But for reasons which are beyond me, Obama remains personally well-liked. Don't be complacent, or underestimate his ability...

WI Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s abusive claim of abuse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 25 Comments

Wisconsin Justice Ann Walsh Bradley publicly accused Justice David Prosser of using a "chokehold" on her during an incident on June 13, 2011. As discussed on Thursday, the investigative file shows that the accusation was false and misleading. Read my post, Turns out WI Justice Ann Walsh...

Excerpts from the investigative file of the incident between Ann Walsh Bradley and David Prosser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2011 7 Comments

Here are excerpts from the respective interviews of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices present on June 13, 2011, during an incident between Justice Ann Walsh Bradley and Justice David Prosser. All emphasis is mine. The full reports are available at the links. An analysis of this indicent...

The missing Obama command photo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 7 Comments

We've seen him in the situation room when he got bin Laden. And interrupting his golf game to deal with the D.C. earthquake. And taking charge of the hurricane control center. But there is one photo which is missing, as noted by commenter Jonathan at Legal Insurrection's Facebook...

Irene and me

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 8 Comments

Well, so far things could have been worse, We decided to stay in Ithaca after neighbors took care to get our home in Rhode Island ready. About 40% of Rhode Island, including our street, is without power since this morning. Watching the Weather Channel I was...

Obama’s “Dukakis Tank” Moment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2011 34 Comments

This should be Obama's Dukakis Tank moment, when pure bravado exposed the very perception of weakness the candidate hoped to overcome. Is there anything worse than a candidate who tries so hard to be something he is not, to fake it so hard that it hurts...