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Kulaks Beware: Mamdani Orders Public Hearings To Shame "Ripoff" NYC Landlords

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction

Perjury charge against Shellie Zimmerman raises more questions of prosecutorial overreaching (Update: Prosecution misleadingly edited transcript)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 137 Comments

Florida prosecutor Angela Corey has come under withering criticism from Alan Dershowitz for overcharging and leaving out important details in the Affidavit of Probable Cause filed in connection with the charge of Second Degree Murder lodged against George Zimmerman. Corey allegedly responded by threatening to sue...

My radio interview with Boston’s WRKO about Elizabeth Warren

Posted by Anne Segal on June 13, 2012 9 Comments

I was guest on Todd Feinburg of Boston's WRKO radio show this morning. I spoke about my experience covering Elizabeth Warren at the Netroots conference this past weekend. Listen to my segment below, or click here to access it on their website. &#a0; ...

We are all crackers now

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 27 Comments

I posted last night about how Obama's support among a core constituency, Jews in New York, has cracked. Support for Obama also is cracking among blacks in North Carolina: President Barack Obama is rapidly losing support among African-American voters in North Carolina, a new poll out today from the...

You don’t need a weatherman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 14 Comments

More from Sandy's road trip: We arrived an intermediate destination, Culver, Indiana, late Friday night. Culver is a small mid-west town in Marshall County, about 50 miles south of South Bend. It is perhaps best known for the Culver Academies, composed of the Culver Military Academy...

My people are letting go!

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

Jews are a core Democratic liberal constituency, except for Orthodox Jews. In the greater New York City area, there is a demographic time bomb for Democrats in the form of a surge in Orthodox Jewish children who now constitute over 60% of all Jewish children in the...

Rider University Creates $2M ‘Hope’ Fund to Help Students Pay Tuition as it Faces Cuts, Layoffs

CU Boulder Prof Claims Trump’s Venezuela Action Shows U.S. is ‘Fascist Authoritarian Regime’

U. Houston Replacing Women and Gender Resource Center With Family Office

Trustees of Martin University Announce School Will Close Permanently

Brown University Launches 'Healing and Recovery Effort' Following Campus Shooting

Virginia Ending In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants Due to DOJ Lawsuit

Emergency Broadcast System activated – #FreeSGLawrence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2012 21 Comments

Friend of the blog @SGLawrence had her Twitter account mysteriously suspended last night. She has been very active tweeting conservative messages (including many LI posts) and engaging with "others with opposing views" on Twitter. We can't be sure why her account was suspended, but it fits the...

SSIDs: The new political lawn signs?

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 42 Comments

Service set identifiers, or SSIDs, are essentially the network names that people give to their wireless networks. It turns out many Americans--and people across the world--are turning to SSIDs as a unique way to express their political sentiments. Much in the same way a yard...

Thank you, fellow legal insurrectionists

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 17 Comments

Thank you, fellow legal insurrectionists, for your warm welcome to me over the past few months. I read each and every comment, and am so appreciative of the thanks and praise--and the constructive criticism--you take the time to write. Over the past few weeks, as the...

Obama kisses the ring for Jarrett “wedding of the year”

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments

Chicagoans will (once again) have to put up with road closures, traffic backups, and helicopter "noise pollution" when Barack Obama comes (once again) to the Windy City this weekend. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett will also be in town for the wedding of her daughter, Laura...

Reagan would be a Tea Party hero

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 50 Comments

Ronald Reagan, the humble servant-leader, would have appealed to all conservatives, indeed all Americans, who believe in the right and ability to self-govern. It is the political establishment that would have much to fear from Reagan—not grassroots activists, as Jeb Bush implies in his comments yesterday....

Walker extends Wisconsin-style olive branch at Beer and Brat Summit

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments

Today Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will hold a "Beer and Brat Summit," fulfilling his recall-election-night promise to proactively repair the state, reeling after months of partisanship and rancor. "We've got some fantastic, authentic Wisconsin products that we will be sharing with legislators of both political parties...

Should Elizabeth Warren be in “cultural appropriation” exhibit at Brown Univ. museum?

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 25 Comments

I stopped by Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum on my way out of town after the Netroots Nation conference. They currently have an exhibit focused on American Indian representation in America entitled "Thawing the Frozen Indian." The stated purpose of this exhibit "is confronting the complex, and...

You missed a spot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2012 12 Comments

Three O.B.A.M.A. signs are not quite enough. You shouldn't leave anything up to the imagination. From gone-missing photographer Jason: It's been a while, professor. I have a few recent good ones. Here's the first batch. Taken about a week ago near Durham, NC. ...

Texas Roadrunners and oil industry eagerly await feds Dunes Sagebrush Lizard decision

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 29 Comments

This is an update to my prior post about the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, which may shut down a lot of the oil exploration and production in West Texas if the lizard receives endagered species status. Via reader, photographer (also here), and music impresario Danelle, the decision may come as soon as...

Were charges of “scientific misconduct” against Elizabeth Warren ever fully vetted?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 27 Comments

On June 4, I wrote that The vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s academic background begins. That post featured a scathing law review article by a well-regarded Rutgers law professor in 1990-1991 who accused Elizabeth Warren and her co-authors of a book on bankruptcy of a wide range of academic offenses. ...

Allen West on new District: “No one ambushes me”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 23 Comments

You will remember the outrage which swept the airwaves when redistricting by the Republican legislature redistricted Allen West out of existence. There was a heated dispute whether West was targeted or just the victim of circumstance dictated by law. West ended up switching districts. West discussed it...

Left and right agree: We don’t need no concern-trolling NYT op-eds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 22 Comments

Steve Almond writes in The NY Times, Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One: This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal. We choose to see ourselves as innocent victims of an escalating right-wing fanaticism. But too often we serve as...