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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

Pretty Good Paul Ryan Stuff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 2 Comments

Via Public Secrets:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHcXtG_C3qM?fs=1]But, could we have held the tax rates steady without the Christmas Tree ornaments hung onto the bill?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Obama’s Bad Numbers Are The Real Headline

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 17 Comments

The headline at The Washington Post, quite predictably, is that Sarah Palin's poll numbers are terrible.But the more important story for 2012 is that Barack Obama has lost 44% of the voters, and has weak core support (emphasis mine):Still, the survey shows limits to Obama's...

And Now You Can Pat Yourself On The Back

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2010 0 Comments

The Omnibus bill was pulled last night by Harry Reid after several Republicans who were considering voting for it reversed course.The Omnibus bill was defeated because of you and millions of others like you who let their voices be heard on the internet, radio airwaves, through...

Harry Reid Pulls The Plug On His Credibility and Power

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 15 Comments

Breaking news that Harry Reid is pulling the Omnibus spending bill in the face of the loss of possible Republican votes: The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said Thursday night that he was abandoning efforts to pass a $1.2 trillion spending measure to finance...

It Also Was Called The Soviet Union

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 47 Comments

I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries. I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted...

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing 'Genocide'

Federal Govt Trying to Hire up to 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump's Inauguration

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has Fun on Broadway While Conservative Justices Can't Leave Their Homes

Northwestern Prof Calls Out AAUP Over DEI Hypocrisy

Kansas University Pushes Trans Activism in Defiance of Kansas Voters

Columbia Prof Resigns Over School's Decision to Have Academic Who Praised October 7th Attacks Teach Zionism Course

Not One Inch, Or Minute

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 14 Comments

I'm not sure what Republicans in the Senate can do to stop the Ominibus Monstrosity since there appear to be several Republicans likely to vote for the bill (Collins, Bond, Bennett, Voinivich). Regardless, the Republican leadership and membership should do anything and everything to stop...

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,...

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...