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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 34 Comments

Rodney King died today. He was a tragic figure. I don't blame him for any of the violence which took place after the policemen charged with assaulting him were found not guilty.  An interesting resource on the court case is here.  I discussed how the video evidence...

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Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on June 17, 2012 5 Comments

Now that Richard Mourdock has defeated Dick Lugar and is well into his general election campaign against Democrat Joe Donnelly, it is of paramount importance that we keep Mourdock’s campaign for Senate strong. Top-tier Republican figures are aware of this, as evidenced by Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 17 Comments

I previously have posted about the excellent job Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com has done bringing to light details of a scathing critique of Elizabeth Warren's scholarship by a now-deceased Rutgers Law School professor: The vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s academic background begins. Were charges of “scientific misconduct” against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 51 Comments

The most shocking thing to me about this video is not that Harvard Law Professor Robert Mangabeira Unger looks so old. When I was in law school he was a baby-faced rising star on the faculty (his photo from that time period still is on his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 12 Comments

There were may good speeches at the Right Online conference, including Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin. I particularly liked Hugh Hewitt's speech, and his emphasis on how we each play an important role in the movement: "Every day is a new day online and every barrier to...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 34 Comments

There is very little chance I'll end up reading David Maraniss' biography of Obama, although by all accounts it is a very detailed work which punctures much of Obama's self-portryal (you remember the "composite" girlfriend revealed in a pre-release excerpt). Ben Smith has read the book,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 19 Comments

Or a Lance Armstrong Livestrong Team Radio Shack jersey. I guess you didn't get that directive from the Central Committee, Comrade. From reader 9th District Neighbor: Mild weather always brings out the men in tights who bicycle in large groups, usually in the middle of the road. This...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 86 Comments

When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right. Forget...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on June 16, 2012 7 Comments

After she handled her fellow Republican candidates at the Utah convention back in April, Mia Love is receiving a substantial boost from her party to aide her attempt to oust Democrat Congressman Jim Matheson in the newly created 4th Congressional District. Many Republicans have been vocal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 16 Comments

I think this is one of those goose/gander things. Via Roll Call: With less than four and a half months until Election Day, Senate Republicans are shutting off the bipartisan spigot when it comes to confirming President Barack Obama’s nominees to the nation’s top courts and will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 15 Comments

I'm still having a lot of trouble figuring out the Maine Senate race, and whether there's anything we can do to salvage the seat in a three-way race with the former Governor running as an independent apparently in the lead. Via Pine Tree Politics: The message from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 16 Comments

I'm not there this weekend, but at least we have video! ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 18 Comments

From a reader: Took this photo on my way to work this morning -- in Saratoga, California, a suburb of Silicon Valley, no less! It probably doesn't mean California is in play, but I think it's an indicator of Obama's diminishing popularity here. I thought LI...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 15 Comments

Not the destruction in September 2007 of the nuke facility likely being built with the help of the Norks. Via Jerusalem Post, a story I had not heard before, Syria’s chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s. It was July 2007...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 107 Comments

Who asked a question. And the MSM is going wild on Twitter. Here's the offense: The "offender" was Neil Munro from The Daily Caller. Updates: NBC has now given reporter/heckler more coverage than Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal.— Dan Curry (@dancurry) June 15, 2012 Neil Munro is now #1 trend on...

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