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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

Battle of the Obama Celebrity ads

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 25 Comments

Which do you think is better, the original Obama Celebrity ad run by the McCain campaign in 2008, or the new one from American Crossroads which was just released? First, the original: Here's how the NY Times Editorial Board characterized the McCain ad: The ad gave us an uneasy...

Don’t stand your middle ground

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 21 Comments

A reader sent me the following in response to my post about that thing that doesn't matter in the least to me: Over the past year, I've moved your bookmark steadily up & to the left. Since last fall it's been among the 18-20 that my screen width...

RNC marketing fail: Is the Republican convention about parking?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 26, 2012 41 Comments

Today some on the Right conceded that Obama's the one with the "cool" factor. Does that mean the Republicans need to cede all marketing savvy, though? Compare the RNC and DNC convention websites and ask yourself what caption you'd write under the images. The splash page...

Why Israel fights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 22 Comments

Today's is the 64th anniversary of Israel's founding. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some. Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO's, "peace" groups, academia, the...

“Young Guns Support Elderly RINO” Dick Lugar (Update: Mourdock up by 5 in new poll)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 34 Comments

That's the headline Bill Kristol gives to this Politico report: The Young Guns Network, a group affiliated with two former aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, paid more than $100,000 in mail costs to help embattled Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, federal filings show. The expenditure showed...

Conservative Legal Group Urges DOJ Probe of Top Research University Over Alleged Illegal DEI Practices

Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can't Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000

Brown University Killer Recorded Video Confessions After Shootings

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

Thank you, Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 53 Comments

Newt Gingrich will be exiting the race next week. Newt not only will endorse Mitt Romney for President, Newt will pledge to work without rest to defeat Obama. Is there anyone Romney would rather have on his side than Newt? Oh yes, Newt will go there so...

The House fell on her head

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 5 Comments

Yes it did. From reader Kathy, taken near Gainesville, FL: ...

Where are they now?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 23 Comments

One of my favorite photos, run on the blog a number of times in the past. Something about it just seems to sum up the mania which swept the nation in 2008. Now that Obama is in full-out pander mode to the youth (as he sells out...

Understatements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 6 Comments

Understatement (via John Sexton): Many critics view The Times as constitutionally unable to address the election in an unbiased fashion. Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama’s election in 2008...

Blue Dogs down

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 18 Comments

Two moderate Blue Dog incumbent Democrats lost to left-wing, union-backed challengers in Pennsylvania yesterday: The Blue Dogs' bark in Congress is sounding more and more like a whimper. The once-powerful coalition of conservative Democrats suffered two more casualties on Tuesday as Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., lost to...

The “Progressive” brand — for what does it stand?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 25, 2012 46 Comments

Yesterday we learned that Representative Allen West (R-FL) was disinvited from an NAACP fundraiser in his home state of Florida. Last week, West had commented that "I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party." West,...

Gag

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 40 Comments

The RNC just released a video comparing Obama's Jimmy Fallon appearance with Mitt Romney's victory speech last night. I had thought about that comparison this morning when I watched the video of the Fallon appearance. Obama has turned the Office of the Presidency into a sight and...

Oral argument reports: Supreme Court appears poised to uphold key part of Arizona Immigration Law (SB 1070)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 12 Comments

The Supreme Court heard argument this morning on the challenge to Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070. See my post yesterday for background. The transcript and audio will not be available until the end of the week (the same day release on the Obamacare argument was an...

So where’s that unity, responsibility, and transparency?

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on April 25, 2012 12 Comments

In 2008, when Barack Obama was in the midst of a historic campaign to become the leader of the free world, he firmly positioned himself to be the man the American people could unite around. Time and time again, Presidential candidate Obama vowed to reach across...

Whole Foods just trying to make the green people happy?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 25, 2012 41 Comments

"They just doing it to make all the green people happy," the New York Times reported fisherman Mr. Sanfilippo as saying. He's referring to Whole Foods's decision to only sell fish it considers sustainable: Starting Sunday, gray sole and skate, common catches in the region, will...

Dick Lugar defers on whether Tea Party good for GOP … until he finds out if he wins primary

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 4 Comments

I realize that all politicians are narcissists to an extent, but judging the value of a political movement on whether it helps you or not seems a bit, shall we say, self-centered. In one of the more curious comments so far in the challenge by Richard...

For the record, only

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 25 Comments

The year-end 2011 Law Prof Blog Rankings from TaxProf are out. It is noted only for the record, in the interest of preserving a slice of America as we know it for future generations, not because it matters to me. I'm above worrying about the small stuff...