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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

Cynical Me

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 13 Comments

If I were a completely cynical political type, I'd say to hell with the merits of the "tax deal," because we just found the best reason to vote No. As reported by The Hill (h/t HotAir), Obama tells lawmakers not passing tax deal could end...

Jump!?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 1 Comment

As reported by TaxProf, Professor Richard Schmalbeck at Duke is worried that high net worth individuals nearing death -- or their relatives -- will accelerate the end due to the looming increase in the estate tax:Unless Congress acts very quickly, there will be blood as...

Rand Revised

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 5 Comments

Ann Heller sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about her recent well-received biography of Ayn Rand. I think Heller "gets it", she "[thinks] the core of [Rand's] appeal is her deep love of freedom ...

Meltdown Coming Soon

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 7 Comments

Tom Woods, one of my favorite historians, wrote a book detailing the 2008 financial crisis titled 'Meltdown.' The book outlines how government intervention and ignorance led to the mess we're still cleaning up. While this is something we all, more or less, know as right-leaning...

Steelisms

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 8 Comments

Slate magazine has a running report series called "Bidenisms" that I love to quote. Politico today has an account of all of Michael Steele's gaffes. I was hoping to have a funny quote or two, but the column just made me furious. Which is unfortunate,...

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

Stuxnet Morphs Into Iranian Stimulus Plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2010 6 Comments

The Stuxnet malware has set back the Iranian nuclear program by two years, according to a German expert quoted in The Jerusalem Post (h/t @Allahpundit):The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s...

Liberal Dems Fall on Swords

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2010 4 Comments

I told you the liberal Democrats who were protesting the "tax deal" would not buck Obama, and would fall in line.So no surprise to see this headline at The Hill, Liberals giving up tax fight:A House liberal who has led the effort to stop President...

Harry Reid’s Really Big Bargaining Chip

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2010 6 Comments

Harry Reid lowered the boom yesterday, rolling out a $1.1 trillion, 1,924-page Omnibus Budget bill, which was sure to infuriate Republicans in the Senate.To roll out such a provocative bill at a time when Reid has an extraordinarily tight calendar on a variety of social and...

Quote of the Day (Week, Month, Year, Decade, Century)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 5 Comments

Caroline Glick:"The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law."-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal...

Another Christmas Surprise – Dems Roll Out $1.1 Trillion, 1,924-Page Budget Bill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 15 Comments

I have warned time and again that the lame duck Democratic Congress could not be trusted, and that the longer it went on, the more mischief Democrats would attempt. I urged Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in the Senate to do everything within their power...

Neither Necessary Nor Proper

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 24 Comments

Prof. Orin Kerr, writing at Volokh Conspiracy, believes there is a glaring error in the decision by Judge Henry Hudson of the U.S. District Court in Virginia holding the health care mandate unconstitutional (italics in original, bold text mine):I’ve had a chance to read Judge Hudson’s...

Labels

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 8 Comments

I have some labels for them:Loser RINOs: Mike Castle, Charlie Christ, Bob InglisEgomaniacs: Michael BloombergAstroturfers: Nancy Jacobson, Mark McKinnonTalking heads: David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, Mika BrzezinskiDemocrats: Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)Coffee Party The Group Which Cannot Be Mentioned By...

Obama’s Best (Worst) Strawman Argument Yet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2010 8 Comments

I've written before about Barack Obama's penchant for creating strawman arguments, in which Obama presents an exaggerated and misleading characterization of Republican proposals in order to make Obama's own policy seem like the only reasonable choice.Most typically, Obama will frame the sentence beginning with words similar...

We Are Not Hostages

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 15 Comments

As I write, the "tax deal" worked out between Obama and Republicans in Congress has passed its first procedural hurdle, with more than 60 Senators voting to open debate on the legislation.As I have pointed out before, a marginally acceptable bill as originally announced has become an...

Maggie is Back!

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 13, 2010 2 Comments

Twenty years after she left her post as Prime Minister, the spirit of Margaret Thatcher is reportedly back in Britain. According to The Telegraph, "Only a quarter of people believe more money should be spent on benefits compared with more than half in the mid-1980s,...

Virginia Judge Declares Health Care Mandate Unconstitutional

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 19 Comments

A Judge in Virginia has held the health care mandate to be unconstitutional. The decision is here and embedded below.The Judge rejected the position of the government that the mandate was an exercise of taxing power:It is clear from the text of Section 1501 that...

I Love It When PDS Sufferers Get Humiliated

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2010 18 Comments

Michael Shaw, who blogs at HuffPo, has a serious case of PDS. Upon seeing an AP photo with a caption asserting that Sarah Palin had "her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center," Shaw went wild:If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin to...