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Lie of the Year: Joe Biden Is "Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused"

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls for creating Dem "war machine" to stop Republicans

Jimmy Carter's Presidency and Post-Presidency - A Brutal Assessment By National Review

How much like the West should Singapore become?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 08, 2011 2 Comments

KathleenI just finished a research paper on Singapore's Second Industrial Revolution when, in the early 1980s, they incentivized growth in their tech sector to compete with other first world countries -- a departure from their manufacturing-based economy. Most of their success was due to the...

Brookfield Falls To Prosser Forces Again, Kloppenburg To Mount Defense At Cities of Speculation And Conjecture

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

The city of Brookfield, and Waukesha County in general, have been the heart of the attack by JoAnne Kloppenburg's recount forces seeking to overcome a 7316 vote deficit. As discussed yesterday, the strategy was to contest whether ballot bags were properly sealed, the implication being...

Spiking the football, May 8, 1945

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2011 2 Comments

The war in Europe was over, but the war in the Pacific went on. Truman announced the victory with solemn caution of the road ahead.And then for a day, Americans spiked the football:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Man v. man

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2011 9 Comments

Spotted by reader Bob from Windsor, CO, while visiting in Irvine, CA.But what does it mean? The usual configuration has lower case "man" twice, and is taken to mean that there is no real difference between the political parties. But here it's Man v. man? Deep meaning, or...

Saturday Night Card Game (Think Progress Punked by Fake Navy SEAL “Anchor Baby” Story)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Think Progress, via its Wonk Room blog, thought it had the story of the year. Not just the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALS.No, it was so much better, the...

UConn Medical School Invites Trans People to Train Students in ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Young Progressives are Embracing Antisemitism Based on Lies

U. Tennessee Students Doing Work on Campus Discover Civil War Trench

‘Climate justice’ Group at Northwestern University Calls for School to Become ‘Fossil Free Campus’

House Republicans Fast-Track Bill to Ban Men From Women's Sports

NYC Subway Slasher with 87 Priors Caught (UPDATED)

Hey, China, Leave This Blog Alone

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 9 Comments

Reader Tom reports that when he was in China recently he was not able to access this blog, or the affiliated Facebook and YouTube pages..Other blogs worked fine, including other conservative blogs.Calling out to the People of China to try to access this blog and report the...

Kloppenburg Laying Foundation To Delegitimize Inevitable Prosser Win

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 28 Comments

The recount in Wisconsin is moving along pretty much as expected given the history of recounts in Wisconsin: There hasn't been much change in the vote count.As of the end of the day yesterday, with 82% of the voting units in, and 78% of the...

We get it, you went down to Yasgur’s farm and joined in a rock and roll band

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

Thanks to a reader for this car spotted in Roxbury, NJ.Usually people in Jersey are more subtle than this, so I'm quite surprised at the ostentatious display.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Poll – When Will RAID ON ABBOTTABAD Be Released?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 20 Comments

The major Hollywood motion picture:RAID ON ABBOTTABAD - How Barack Obama and a Team of Navy SEALS Changed the Course of HistoryThe cast will include (other suggestions are welcome):DENZEL WASHINGTON as The PresidentJAMES CAAN as The VeepGLENN CLOSE as HillaryED HARRIS as Robert GatesThere may be made for TV movies before...

Syrian Update

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 06, 2011 2 Comments

KathleenMy friend Jonathan is still in Syria. He has an update on his blog that I'm reposting here to decrease the traffic to his URL:Things I'm Sick OfI don't want to start today on a negative note, (or with a blog title that ends in...

Slope Day

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 06, 2011 1 Comment

Kathleen Today is Slope Day, a Cornell tradition on the last day of classes. A few thousand members of the Cornell community gather on our enormous slope that separates the West Campus from the Arts Quad to listen to music and, well, drink. I'm sure...

Collateral Damage To Anti-Bush Mythology About The Hunt For Bin Laden

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 13 Comments

The relentless banter by the mainstream media and others (including by some in the comments here) is that Bush let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora and gave up the search. As the facts come out in the wake of bin Laden's death, bits...

Condi Rice v Lawrence O’Donnell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 14 Comments

A person who knows the facts, versus an agenda-driven hack so-called journalist who has all the talking points on the tip of his tongue.The person with the facts wins.Gets particularly interesting around th 8:00 mark, for those of you who have work to do and...

Vindication Overcomes Vindictiveness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 4 Comments

Like I said:"Obama and his supporters, who opposed the secret intelligence operations and interrogations as illegal, now are reaping the political benefits of those operations and interrogations."Put into poster format, via Jim Geraghty: “VINDICATION: When the loudest critic of your policies achieves his greatest success...

Unemployment Rate Up To 9%

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 12 Comments

In a just released report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate increased from 8.8% to 9.0%.The "unemployment rate" can be somewhat misleading, as I have pointed out in the past, because as more people drop out of the labor market (i.e. give...

Yes, Yes, How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You Yes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 0 Comments

And I didn't even vote for him. Taken by reader Joe in NY in a parking lot near where he works. Seeing these stickers made him feel not quite so alone:Some alternatives:"We're all sorry now." "He is the sorry we have been waiting for." "Sorry means...

Kloppenburg’s First Big Recount Success – Nuns’ Ballots Thrown Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 29 Comments

As of the end of the day yesterday, with 75.43% of the reporting units and just under 70%, of the votes recounted, JoAnne Kloppenburg has picked up ...