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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 7 Comments

Heroes of the American Left, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, have destroyed the best hope for ridding Zimbabwe of madman Robert Mugabe by releasing U.S. State Department cables of communications  between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the leading opponent of Mugabe, and U.S. and E.U. officials,...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 28, 2010 7 Comments

Today's guest column is from Allison McCarty, a senior at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA majoring in Philosophy and Economics. She interned this past summer at the Institute for Justice through the Koch Summer Fellow Program. Her post is relevant to some of the research...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 14 Comments

But, but, there was scientific consensus, so why is anyone questioning the theory or looking for evidence to the contrary?As reported by AP (emphasis mine):Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 1 Comment

over the long holiday weekend, but really need to read now that you are back at work and have all day to waste pretending you are doing work on the computer:Lame Duck Congresses - Venezuela v. U.S. "So at what point in time should global...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 4 Comments

Alfred Kahn has passed away.  As you travel during the holidays, shopping around for cheap airfares, you have Kahn to thank.  Kahn, a Professor at Cornell, was responsible for deregulating the airline industry.I realize all you kids think airfare competition always has been a fact...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 1 Comment

When the first challenges to the health care mandate were brought, the legal theories were dismissed as frivolous.  Despite numbers showing a majority against the mandate, few believed the mandate could be overturned, and the numbers had stagnated.Then earlier this month a judge in Virginia...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 17 Comments

That's the title of a post by Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge about Economics Professor Brad DeLong, of U.Cal Berkeley, in which Bainbridge collects links about DeLong from a variety of academic bloggers who have had the misfortune of having to deal with DeLong. I really don't...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 27, 2010 2 Comments

"French politicians of both the right and left are facing severe embarrassment and legal recriminations with the forthcoming publication of an official report on what could become the worst health scandal in the country's history.President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised "the most complete transparency" on how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 2 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 54 Comments

There is a bizarre intellectual dance taking place around the topic of Barack Obama's birthplace.  The world has been artificially divided into "Birthers" and "anti-Birthers" when in fact I suspect a large percentage or even majority of the population is neither and simply wants all the evidence...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 7 Comments

I have posted multiple times before about how worldwide "green" technology and a variety of high tech industries were dependent on "rare earth minerals" mined almost exclusively in China.  U.S. production was shut down almost a decade ago over environmental concerns.  Among other things, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 5 Comments

Okay, the last two plus years, in which we have been called every name in the book by Obama, his administration, the Democrats in Congress, and the Democratic base, are forgiven and forgotten.Let's just make pretend it never happened:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 26, 2010 7 Comments

Today we're running a guest column from Michael Alan, a freshman in Cornell's school of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Michael is a contributor to the Cornell Review, and hails from Lewisburg, PA. The Albany Times-Union reported last week that the records from NY Governor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2010 6 Comments

The Fabulous 50 Blogs Awards have been announced.  The Awards go to the best conservative blogs in various categories, using a time-tested scientific methodology similar to that used to predict the weather.Based on scientific consensus, your humble correspondent was selected as Best Law Blogger.Remember, you can't...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2010 41 Comments

The Obama administration has instituted, via regulations, the end of life counseling which was taken out of the Obamacare legislation after many people objected to the government paying for such services.As reported in The New York Times, the Obama administration took steps to conceal the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2010 5 Comments

I stumbled upon this unusual video, taken by American Jews in China and narrated in Yiddish, of man-on-the-street interviews regarding perceptions of Jews and Israel.The money line is at 7:30 of the video, in which a sympathetic Chinese man wonders whether it is true that Jews...

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