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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Live Blogging Paul Ryan’s Address To The Nation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2011 4 Comments

The people have spoken, and there will be no Live Event for Obama's State of the Union address.Instead, we will have a Live Event for Paul Ryan's historic address to the nation on Tuesday night, starting at approximately 10 p.m. E.S.T.But since we don't know precisely when Congressman...

Going After The Supremes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2011 12 Comments

Criticism of Supreme Court Justices is nothing new. We do it and they do it.But the latest tactic in going after two Supreme Court Justices, Scalia and Thomas, seems out of the ordinary. Since the first of this year we have seen three charges made.First,...

Why I Am So Intolerant

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 62 Comments

If you have noticed, I am very intolerant of cheap shots and snide comments directed at Sarah Palin, particularly when those cheap shots and snide comments come from conservative bloggers and Republican politicians.Perhaps I react this way because when Palin Derangement Syndrome first struck this...

Look Quickly, It Will Be Gone Soon

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 17 Comments

As you know, I don't pay much attention to blog rankings. I'm just not into that sorta stuff. I don't need outside validation of the worth of this blog.So imagine my surprise to see Legal Insurrection Blog moving up to the #22 spot in Technorati's...

Pigs.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 23, 2011 5 Comments

I've spent the past month that I've been off from school downtown in the Financial District. I walk past Ground Zero daily, and there are - typically - a gaggle of tourists outside the 9/11 memorial and museum. I can't say I've ever been in,...

People Still Have Lots of Questions About Spending in the Kamala Harris Campaign

Boise State U. Shuttered Campus DEI Centers Over Thanksgiving Break

National Spelling Bee Approves Feminist Term 'Womyn' for Kids' Competition

U. Iowa Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55K to Speak on Campus

Biden Admin. Rushing to Auction Off Unused Border Wall Materials Before Trump Takes Office

U. Penn Prof Apologizes After Seemingly Praising Murder of Healthcare CEO

Exclusive – First Draft of Obama’s SOTU Speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 11 Comments

First draft of Obama's upcoming State of the Union Address, as edited by the White House communications team:My Fellow Americans, I have a plan, but I can't tell you about it because you are worried about jobs. If I really cared what you thought about...

Reader Poll: To SOTU or Not to SOTU?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 7 Comments

One of my readers has asked if we will be doing a Live Event (similar to what we did on November 2 and last January for the MA Election) for Tuesday's State of the Union address.What do you think? (Poll closes at midnight tonight)--------------------------------------------Follow me on...

Saturday Night Card Game (“I’m Not Racist, I Know People Who Voted For Obama”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 13 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:You know the line. When accused of being racist, some white people start to list all their friends who are black. That has been the focus of many a comedy...

Death Panels, Death Panels, Death Panels

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mike Stopa was a candidate for Congress in the Republican primary in Massachusetts, and a focus of some posts here, including about his plan on how to dismantle Obamacare based on the experience in Massachusetts.Now Mike has written a column for The Boston Globe sure...

A Game With No Winners

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 22, 2011 2 Comments

I love monopoly. I love weeding out my business-savvy relatives from the bleeding hearts, weaseling my way into deals and trades in the name of property acquisition. When I saw the headline for 'Queue', the "communist monopoly" game, I became excited. As one article reads:...

Washington Post Now Not Even Trying To Hide Its Hatred Of Sarah Palin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 47 Comments

I was going to write a post about Dana Milbank's attention-seeking column in The Washington Post about how he supposedly is going to stop writing about or even talking about Sarah Palin for the month of February. The Milbank column really is a window into the mind of...

“Olbermann Without A Sense of Humor” Now The Face of MSNBC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 7 Comments

The 8 p.m. time slot is the premier evening news spot on cable. For Fox News, the slot is held by Bill O'Reilly, who has become the most public face of Fox News.MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann in the 8 p.m. slot with Lawrence O'Donnell,...

“Have You No Job, Sir?” – Olbermann Out At MSNBC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 13 Comments

Keith Olbermann is out at MSNBC according to a press release issued by MSNBC:STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANNMSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s...

If “She Can’t Win,” Then Neither Can We

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 48 Comments

I have been addressing in some detail the assertion that Sarah Palin should not be seriously considered by Republican voters because Palin cannot win a general election, so I will not repeat myself. Admittedly, I have been somewhat narrow in my focus, driven by circumstances that the "can't win" meme...

The Price of Kickbacks

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 21, 2011 5 Comments

The New York Post reported today that "Charles Rangel wants to party away his legal bills. The embattled Harlem congressman ...

Russian Duma Still Does Not Accept Unilateral U.S. New START Treaty Interpretations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 4 Comments

The New START Treaty follies continue.As posted here before, in order to obtain Senate ratification, the Obama administration offered certain understandings of disputed language in the Treaty regarding defensive missile systems. Such interpretations were inconsistent with prior Russian statements as to what the Russians understood...

So Tell Me About Mike Huckabee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 44 Comments

This is part of a continuing series in which I ask my readers to inform me as to possible Republican presidential candidates with whom I am not that familiar, or at least not familiar enough to make a judgment. There is, of course, one potential...