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Posted by Anne Segal on July 13, 2012 12 Comments

Elizabeth Warren cannot escape the public's questions about her claims to Native American ancestry. A live chat today demonstrates how deeply the issue has permeated the campaign dialogue. On the local Massachusetts community news website, Patch.com, Elizabeth Warren participated in a live chat where the site invited readers to ask...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2012 65 Comments

It probably will not stop those who want to portray the case as racial from continuing to make claims of racial motivation in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, but the FBI has confirmed that there is no substantial evidence that George Zimmerman was racist. Via Orlando...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2012 20 Comments

Obama's new campaign talking point is to compare Mitt Romney to Richard Nixon in terms of secrecy. The Board of Editors of The San Francisco Chronicle already has weighed in on the Nixonian quality of one of the presidential candidates: The Obama White House's restrictions on media...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2012 26 Comments

He is what he's always been. He's not a nice guy who's in over his head. He always has campaigned by finding enemies and demonizing people.  It was the essence of his campaign in 2008, but at least he could cover it with words like hope and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2012 25 Comments

From reader Pam: Hi - I am a longtime reader who has never contributed, but I love the blog - especially the bumper sticker category. I just had to send this picture of an acquaintance's car - not surprisingly, the owner is from lower Fairfield County, CT...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2012 33 Comments

I think today has been clarifying.  Whatever pretense of civility existed in the Obama campaign is gone. It's okay, perfectly okay with the President for his campaign staff to call Mitt Romney a liar and potential criminal: "No," Obama press secretary Ben LaBolt said in response to a...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 12, 2012 40 Comments

Black newspaper publishers expressed anger and frustration at President Obama's failure to reach out to them at a recent panel at the National Newspaper Publishers Association convention. The Chicago Crusader reports:  “We don’t think the president has ever spoken to us. He’s spoken to the Latino community...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 12, 2012 20 Comments

New polling data released today by independent Public Policy Polling shows Ted Cruz leading Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff for Senate in Texas. The numbers are the first released by a third-party pollster: Cruz's lead expands to a whooping 59-36 margin over Dewhurst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2012 42 Comments

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh released his report on sexual abuse at Penn State, and it was scathing.  Via State College: Louis Freeh, the former FBI director, left nothing to the imagination in his much-anticipated presentment Thursday morning. There was an effort made by the four most...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 12, 2012 16 Comments

Sheila Jackson-Lee, Jan Schakowsky, and David Axelrod have all done an about-turn on merits of the term "Obamacare" after a recent decision to allow its use in "franked" U.S. government mail. Franking privileges, which allow mail to be sent from congressional offices as part of their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2012 14 Comments

At which point you say, "please don't give them any ideas." A second photo taken by Ryan on his drive outside Kansas City: The trailer is located on highway 71 south of Kansas City, MO. Some enterprising American decided to park a semi trailer in his field and...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 11, 2012 38 Comments

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., who has been noticeably absent from public life since June 10, has turned up at an Arizona rehab facility for alcohol abuse. In response to the report from Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC, his office has claimed he is being treated for a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2012 76 Comments

I have mentioned before how Allen West is on the top 10 target list for Democrats this year, Dem SuperPAC targeting “Tea Party 10″. For that reason, among others, West is on the Operation Counterweight list, and we have a separate Focus Page with his website and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2012 57 Comments

I thought it was disrespectful and racist to boo, even on policy matters. At least that's what we're told when there is a virtual boo of Obama in the right blogosphere, or someone shouts out at Obama. Now I don't think there was a racial motive to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2012 49 Comments

that I post TaxProf's quarterly law professor blog rankings merely for informational purposes. External measures like blog traffic are not important to me. No, I blog for the personal satisfaction of expressing my views to complete strangers who communicate with me using fake names. That and that alone...

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