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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2012 31 Comments

That's the allegation from the National Legal and Policy Center, GM’s Government Fleet Sales and Truck Inventory Rise (h/t a reader): It looks like General Motors will be throwing everything in but the kitchen sink to help fluff its second quarter earnings numbers. Taxpayers continue to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2012 14 Comments

We have featured Pallywood here many times, the industry build on faux. From numerous instances of fauxtography to wildly exaggerated reports of massacres, this industry is devoted to building the narrative of perpetual Palestinian victimhood.  From the archives: Abid Katib – Palestinian Shoe Fauxtographer? (funny how those kids...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2012 27 Comments

Just released June numbers: Nonfarm payroll employment continued to edge up in June (+80,000), and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Professional and business services added jobs, and employment in other major industries changed little over the month. Household Survey...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2012 24 Comments

Still a duck, but at least he's trying to fight the Prius Presumption. Here's how it's done, but you still can't change a first impression. From frequent photographer Ulises: Even Maryland Prius drivers are for Romney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 15 Comments

Via David Hogberg, who was in court today:Today both parties were back in court in front of Appellate Judge Nelson Rupp. This time, Walker was represented by attorney Reginald Bours.Kimberlin made a number of statements, but his basic argument boiled down to Walker wanted to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 32 Comments

That's basically Obama's argument for Obamacare -- he rattles of a small number of good things that people will like because they are free, and ignores the mountain of regulation which will crush so much of what makes the vast majority of Americans satisfied with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 12 Comments

Some flee the sinking ship.  Via Times of Israel: Manaf Tlas, one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s closest friends and most trusted military colleagues, who is also the son of the Assad regime’s former long-serving defense minister, has defected from the Assad regime and fled to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 125 Comments

But since he probably only has to put up 10% in cash, he should be walking free soon. (Order here and at bottom of post) Via Orlando Sentinel: A Sanford judge today ordered George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 31 Comments

Via Professor Bainbridge, the Presbyterian Church once again is considering a divestment of Israeli companies as part of an ongoing attempt to boycott everything Israeli: Once again, the Presbyterian Church (USA) is considering divesting from certain companies that do business with the Israeli government. As I explained the last...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 33 Comments

well, you know. (Surely someone will go there.) Via The Hill: A subset of the Marine Corps band struck up one of Mitt Romney's walkout songs while President Obama was greeting visitors at the White House Independence Day celebration. A White House pool report said the band...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 19 Comments

Or at least they will be soon, via AP: The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on  Yasser Arafat's remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab  said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 16 Comments

Self-conscious we much? From reader and blogger C. Dodd Harris, IV, who spotted this vehicle in Louisville, KY: Saw this today, seemed like it was up your alley. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 17 Comments

One of the best July 4ths I've had in a while. I feel a sea change, after the bummer of last week.  The media did its best to demoralize us, and we did a pretty good job on ourselves as well. I'm reinvigorated, and more motivated than...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 34 Comments

The conundrum - how to be intellectually consistent that the mandate was an unconstitutional penalty to force people into commerce, yet deal with the fact that The Chief and the four liberal Justices called it a constitutional tax. I said the only solution to this pretzel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 30 Comments

Every year on July 4 there is a mini-parade in the neighborhood in my home town in Rhode Island, apart from the "big" parade through the center of town. Mostly it's for the neighborhood children, and it ends with ices and candy, after reciting the Pledge of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 25 Comments

A reader [see update] sent me the link to the article below which examines the "box checker" phenomenon in college and law school admissions.  I think the same analysis applies with regard to professional advancement in fields where there is enormous pressure to diversify, such as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 24 Comments

Reader TowsonLawyer writes: Just in time for the Fourth of July - Lost Film from 1945 Here's the story from Richard Sullivan: 67 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender....

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