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Biden Issues 'Full Unconditional Pardon' for Family Members

Biden Issues Preemptive Pardons for Milley, Fauci, J6 Committee, and Others

Part of Israel's Revenge Is To Continue Building, and Growing, and Loving Life, and Being Happy

Saturday Night Card Game (Would this rewrite of Michigan Prop. 2 be constitutional?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 16 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Friday holding that Michigan Proposal 2, which banned the use of racial and other preferences in a variety of contexts,...

Prediction – Manhattan DA going to come out of Strauss-Kahn case looking pretty good

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 20 Comments

I suggested yesterday that readers take the statements by the lawyer for the alleged victim about injuries to the alleged victim, etc., with a grain of salt. I had confidence that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office would not be proceeding as it is unless the DA's...

Still Temperamentally Unfit for Office

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 18 Comments

I still can't put aside Obama's press conference earlier this week. Obama was seething with mockery and disdain for almost everyone other than himself, with Republicans in Congress a focus. To say that the press conference was not presidential is an understatement. Mark Halperin was right,...

Good News Story of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 7 Comments

There is a really interesting article by Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics regarding congressional redistricting. The common mainstream wisdom has been that redistricting really is not helping Republians that much, and that Democrats even may gain a seat or two nationwide. But Trend details how...

Prepare for the Lombardi Rule to take effect

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 21 Comments

Obama is planning on 5 1/2 more years in office, so he can complete what he has not yet finished. At a campaign fundraiser on June 30, Obama made these comments, as reported byReal Clear Politics (emphasis mine): "And, Philadelphia, I know there are some of you...

Department of Education to Investigate Antisemitism at Tufts University

Freshmen at Yale Want Stronger Free Speech Protections

American Historical Assoc. Vetoes Controversial Anti-Israel Resolution

Florida Profs File Lawsuit Over New State Law Restricting DEI in Higher Education

More Details Emerge About Departure of Anti-Israel Prof From Columbia

Upcoming Board of Trustees Elections at Cornell Offer Some Hope of Sanity

Next Question

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 3 Comments

Spotted by reader Verlin in Sweetwater, TN: ...

Not. Shovel. Ready.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 9 Comments

This ad by Crossroads GPS, for which Karl Rove consults, has been running very heavily in upstate NY. It's critically important that these type of ads run early before Obama starts spreading his hoped-for billion dollars around, the unions spend their hundreds of millions, and Hollywood/Wall...

Strauss-Kahn and credibility problems

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 19 Comments

Dominick Strauss-Kahn was released today on his own personal recognizance, as detailed in The NY Times: In a letter sent to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers and filed with Justice Michael J. Obus on Friday, prosecutors outlined some of what they had discovered about Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s accuser, poking...

Obama’s Tax Hikes Aren’t a Last Resort, They Were the Plan All Along

Posted by Michael Alan on July 01, 2011 3 Comments

In his rather "prickly" press conference on Wednesday, President Obama made it sound as if tax increases (or, to use the Democrats' language, "cutting spending in the tax code") were part of a last resort at trimming the deficit as the federal government reaches its...

More please

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 5 Comments

From the NRSC: ...

Obama’s “Raffle”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 10 Comments

I have referred to Obama's $5 dinner promotion as a "raffle." I am not alone, as virtually every major news organization has used the same terminology. Under any common understanding, it is a raffle, you pay money for a chance to win. Payment of money is...

Drawing Obama Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 8 Comments

The Barack Obama we saw at the press conference earlier this week, the one who inspired the controversial comment by Mark Halperin, is the real Barack Obama. The Barack Obama of 2008 was a charade. It only serves our interest to draw out the real Barack Obama,...

At last minute Obama dropped price from $5 to $3

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 26 Comments

Wow, something really, truly desperate was going on at Team Obama. I've pointed out the cheesy $5 dinner raffle and closing days begging for $5 donations ...

Thanks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 6 Comments

... to my readers for making June the best month ever at Legal Insurrection in terms of blog traffic (just over 600k visits and 800k page views). Considering that it was the transition month, I was concerned that I'd leave a lot of people behind. ...

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a bumper sticker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 7 Comments

Spotted in Eastchester, NY, by reader John who writes: "It almost makes me embarassed to drive a Subaru." ...

How do you say “Duke Lacrosse” in French? “Dominique Strauss-Kahn”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 36 Comments

If you noticed, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for the alleged sexual assault on a maid at a hotel in New York, I didn't join in, almost alone in the blogosphere. Something didn't seem right. The story was too neat, and too couched in political correctness....

What’s next, a free Slurpee with your $5 Obama donation?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 10 Comments

As mentioned yesterday, Obama not only is running a cheesy $5 raffle fundraising stunt, he also is pushing donors hard to contribute something, even if it's only $5, before the June 30 fundraising period closes. Whether to pad the dollar amounts or the numbers of donors,...