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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

Obama: Let’s Raise Taxes To Reduce The Deficit So We Can Raise Spending

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 23, 2011 3 Comments

In his news conference today, President Obama said: As I said in the last press conference, if you’re a progressive you should want to get our fiscal house in order, because once we do, it allows us to then have a serious conversation about the investments...

Sometimes news moves too fast for our own good

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 10 Comments

The Norwegian car bombing and almost simultaneous shooting had all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation. As the first reports emerged, I suggested a wait and see approach. With the initial claim of responsibility from a known al-Qaeda group, the narrative seemed set and not particularly surprising;...

So where is this heading?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 24 Comments

John Boehner has given up, for now, trying to negotiate a debt deal with Obama because Obama is insisting on a tax increase as part of any deal: "In the end, we couldn't connect. Not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our...

Norway – The Warning Signs Were There

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 21 Comments

Consider me a fan of Norway. I traveled there extensively in my youth, and still have friends there. It is a beautiful country, with a traditionally pro-American foreign policy. It saddens me to see Norway have its version of the London bus bombings. Former congressional candidate...

The “Unusually Good Bill Clinton” has a town hall

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 11 Comments

Please do not pull out your hair when you watch this video, via The Boston Herald. As I have said before, this guy is an unusually good Bill Clinton. The debt has increased dramatically on his watch and that is a threat to our credit...

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

Senate Dems kill Cut, Cap & Balance Bill – leave nation with no plan // Update: Reid tells Senate to take weekend off

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 13 Comments

The Senate, on a motion to table brought by Harry Reid, just killed the Cut, Cap & Balance Bill passed in the House without any floor debate. Unlike a motion for cloture, which would have required a day of floor debate, Harry Reid managed to kill...

Breaking: Senate Tables Cut, Cap, and Balance

Posted by Michael Alan on July 22, 2011 6 Comments

In an unsurprisingly dirty trick to avoid the optics of making his Democratic caucus vote to filibuster a bill supported by two thirds of Americans and that includes a balanced budget amendment they previously supported, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called a vote this morning...

Oslo Explosion / Update: Shooting Also

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 12 Comments

Several readers have e-mailed me with links to the explosion in downtown Oslo, Norway, outside the Prime Minister's office. The explosion has all the indications of a car bomb, but reports are too preliminary to say. Rather than speculating, I'll wait until more is known. If it...

Phone Hacking For Me But Not For Thee

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970's equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records,...

Bruce Sundlun, R.I.P.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 4 Comments

Former Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun has died at age 91. Sundlun was a dominant figure in Rhode Island politics, and a true Rhode Island character. A WWII veteran who was shot down behind enemy lines in Europe, and who joined the Belgian resistence before working...

Harry Reid: Those negotiations will fail, that debt deal will be lost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 8 Comments

When word spread via leaks to The NY Times and others that there was the possibility of a debt deal being worked out between Obama and Boehner in which budget cuts would be frontloaded with no new taxes on "the rich," Democrats in the Senate rushed to scuttle...

San Francisco civility

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 1 Comment

From my recent trip: ...

Thanks, I needed this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Thanks to new commenter something for the link to this cartoon. Pretty much sums up my life at this critical juncture in the history of the Republic. ...

Spenditol

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 5 Comments

Just saw this ad running on Fox News, from Spenditol.com: ...

Get ready for the Union Battle of Ohio 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

Unions have collected enough signatures for a statewide referendum on election day 2011 seeking to roll back Ohio's collective bargaining reform bill. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The fate of Senate Bill 5, Ohio's new collective bargaining law, will be in the hands of Ohio...

Widener Law Prof. Lawrence Connell Wins Dismissal Case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 18 Comments

I have written several times about the ordeal of Widener Law Professor Lawrence Connell, who was given notice of dismissal after he used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean Linda Ammons being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that...

Countdown to the debt deal