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Congress Must Stop Trump From Being Sworn In, Argues Column in The Hill

Younger Generation Support for Luigi Mangione Reflects "A Strong Anti-Capitalist Trend on Campuses"

Israel's Pager Operation Disoriented and Severely Damaged Hezbollah, Here's How They Did It

Milwaukee Dem Election Officials Vote For The Muzzle

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2011 8 Comments

As we await the one remaining county yet to complete its canvass, comes this heartening news via JSOnline:In the wake of the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race, a sharply divided Milwaukee Election Commission voted along party lines Thursday to prohibit its own members from...

Friday Night Prisoner Exchange Redux

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2011 4 Comments

Could tonight be the night it all comes together?Friday Night Prisoner Exchange?Is The Andrew still up for it?There was a time when the idea of an exchange was so appealing to him.He still wants one of the prisoners, worse than ever. The other one, not so...

Another Misleading Think Progress Attack On Koch and Walker, and Prosser Too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 11 Comments

The conspiracy theories run deep at Think Progress when it comes to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Koch Industries.The latest post by Lee Fang, the designated Koch investigator at Think Progress, attempts to bring David Prosser into the conspiracy as well, by claiming that recent environmental regulations...

Cornell’s Right-wing influx

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 14, 2011 3 Comments

Kathleen This week has hosted an unusual amount of conservative speakers on the Cornell campus. On Monday, Yuval Levin, of National Affairs fame, addressed the student body through our "Freedom and Free Societies" speaker series. Levin gave a really succinct overview of the implications of...

RI State Pensions In Even Worse Shape Than Thought

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 2 Comments

I have long chronicled the sad financial condition of my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, particularly the problem of public sector pensions.Simply put, high pensions, and the taxes needed to feed the pension system, are killing the state. And that's not me talking,...

California Lawmakers Push College Admissions Priority for Descendants of Slavery

Joe Biden Signs Law Requiring Colleges to Report Hazing Incidents

New Jersey Congressman Denounces Faculty at Rutgers for Adopting BDS Resolution

Conservatives Must Win the Battle Over America's History

Charges Dropped Against Anti-Israel Protesters at UNC-Chapel Hill

Faithful Catholic Colleges Experiencing Surge in Enrollment

For Those Who Love The Stimulus, Let Them Come to Warren, Rhode Island

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 1 Comment

Last July I reported on the absurdity of federal Stimulus Plan money going to building miles of new sidewalks in Warren, Rhode Island, in areas where few people walked.Last November, I reported on the fact that the unnecessary new sidewalks were built improperly.Now I can report that...

The Flash Mob Thing Has Run Its Course

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 5 Comments

It should be over, like disco.(video h/t HotAir)Update: Thanks to reader DinoRightMarie for the link to this Wall Street Journal article which points out the fallacy of the 9-to-5 movement, There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap. The 9-to-5 movement should go the way of disco,...

Hand-to-Hand Combat Has Started

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2011 12 Comments

Barack Obama promised us hand-to-hand combat, and his speech yesterday was the start.The nation is facing a debt crisis of historic proportions, but nothing will be done because Obama already has launched his presidential campaign. A compromise must included serious changes to unsustainable entitlements which...

Obama Is Temperamentally Unfit For Office

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 15 Comments

I've had a chance to read Obama's budget speech, and have seen clips on television. I was right in my anticipation that Obama would play the blame Bush game, and that he would demonize the "Top 2%," and he did. With gusto.But even I could...

Obama’s Budget Speech In One Sentence, I Think

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 16 Comments

I did not get a chance to listen to Obama's "the end of the deficit as we know it" speech. Karl Rove is speaking on campus tonight, and I attended a private, off-the-record meeting with Rove and all of the openly conservative faculty in this...

Tom Woods on Maddow

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 13, 2011 5 Comments

KathleenMaddow referred to "nullification" as something only "racist neo-Confederates" would support. Tom Woods makes an apt criticism of this insipid characterization over at Lew Rockwell:Whatever happened to “small is beautiful,” Rachel? Remember that progressive slogan (along with “question authority,” yet another such slogan to bite...

Can Kloppenburg Find 7,305 Votes In Milwaukee Today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 32 Comments

If not, it's all over in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, as reported by WiscPolitics Election Blog:The canvasses from Sauk and Taylor counties have now been posted to the GAB website. But it could be until the end of today or even tomorrow before Milwaukee...

When Do They Take Over Health Care?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 11 Comments

You think dealing with insurance companies is hard, at least you have choices, for now. Once government takes over, you get what you get, just like at the airports now. And fighting with an insurance company may land you in court, but fighting with the...

Does Wisconsin 2011 = U.S.A. 2012?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 26 Comments

Alexander Burns at Politico argues that Wisconsin in 2011 is a template for what will happen nationally in 2012, a split electorate with a narrow margin of victory:Wisconsin’s contested Supreme Court race has set in motion a drama that’s by now almost painfully familiar. It...

Widener Dean Sued For Defamation Was Considered For U.S. District Court Opening

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2011 3 Comments

I previously posted about The Culture of Jumping To Conclusions At Widener Law School, including allegations by Widener law school professor Lawrence Connell that Widener Dean Linda Ammons falsely accused Connell of racism and sexism, and of engaging in threatening behavior by using a hypothetical example in criminal law class involving an...

What am I doing

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 12, 2011 6 Comments

Kathleenin the north when I could be in Sandy Springs, GA? It's like a baby charter city! --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Another Day, Another Nonsense PPP Poll

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2011 6 Comments

If you have not realized it by now, Public Policy Polling -- which works for DailyKos -- has become an important part of the left-wing messaging machine, with a relentless series of polls spun as bad news for Republicans since the November 2010 elections, and...