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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 28 Comments

There are several really important Supreme Court decisions to be handed down tomorrow at 10 a.m., Monday at 10 a.m., or next Thursday at 10 a.m. ScotusBlog has a "plain English" summary of the remaining cases, and almost all have huge legal implications (forced union contributions for...

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

With so much going on in the domestic political arena, it's easy for attention to get distracted from the Iranian-Hezollah-Russian attempt to keep Bashar Assad in power. Other than when there is a heavy one-day body count, Syria is not in the U.S. news media radar. This...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 39 Comments

Are you on Twitter yet? If not, why not?  We need you. My post, Elizabeth Warren loses it, lashes out at “right wing extremist” (me), is a Topsy Top 100 most tweeted post (a/o 8:30 a.m. today, how high can it go?). You can retweet any of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 11 Comments

From reader J: I have the privilege of living in Charlottesville, recently named the smartest city in America. Yet most of the bumper stickers we see are like the one in the first attached JPG [to be run at later date], no doubt because of the influence...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 99 Comments

As you know, Elizabeth Warren has been caught in a series of at best misleading and at worst false responses since The Boston Herald first broke the story in late April that Harvard Law promoted her as Native American in the mid-to-late 1990s. First she played...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 29 Comments

MSNBC in the form of Andrea Mitchell and guest Chris Cillizza of WaPo had a good laugh over video of Mitt Romney saying it's "amazing" that WaWa markets in Pennsylvania have automated sandwich machines. Ha, Ha, what an out of touch dolt. But that's not what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 23 Comments

There's an interesting brouhaha developing in the Brown-Warren race. Vicki Kennedy (widow of Ted) has teamed up with MSNBC and the Warren campaign to organize a debate in late September. Scott Brown accepted the invitation on the conditions that MSNBC not be a sponsor and that Vicki...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 30 Comments

I mentioned the other day the growing demographic divide in the New York City area Jewish community, which has a rapidly growing Orthodox community and stagnant if not shrinking "secular" community. That demographic shift has political implications as Orthodox Jews are not a core Democratic constituency. It...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 53 Comments

Via SooperMexican( emphasis in original): Today it’s being widely reported that Romney had a moment were he was amazed at the existence of WAWAs, a convenience/gas store, and the electronic touchtone ordering of sandwiches. They have spun this to make it seem like he’s out of touch...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2012 7 Comments

We could get the Supreme Court Obamacare decision as early as Thursday, or almost definitely by next Monday. So it's fitting that Cathy sent this photo, taken in Sanford, Florida: There were also signs on the car identifying the owner as a pastor. The main sticker says "Lord, deliver...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2012 72 Comments

I wanted to fill you in on the next phase of Legal Insurrection. The next four and one-half months will be devoted to defeating Obama, taking back the Senate, holding the House, and hopefully doing all of that in a way which puts in place a Tea Party/conservative...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2012 30 Comments

Via Reuters: A jury in downtown Washington on Monday acquitted Major League Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens of all six criminal charges against him in a trial to decide whether he lied to Congressabout using performance-enhancing drugs. Jurors deliberated for a total of about 10 hours before...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2012 23 Comments

By this imitation without so much as a h/t? Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren joins list of politicians with a 'Google problem': Although it is not the most serious "Google problem" a political hopeful has seen this election season, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren does have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2012 31 Comments

Class warfare worked didn't work so well for Democrats in Wisconsin in the Scott Walker recall.  But they're stiking to what they know. The Democrats are engaging in another campaign, this time dubbing Romney's bus tour the "Middle Class Under The Bus Tour." (h/t JeffEmanuel) ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2012 40 Comments

Spotted by reader P.J., who'll be moving to Albuquerque for love: I'll be moving there in a couple of years to be with my fiancé. Sadly, leaving a very conservative part of Colorado, but my sweetie is very much worth it! The license plate prefix probably only...

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