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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Obamacare Oral Argument, Day 3 – Severability (Update: Medicaid expansion in trouble?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 75 Comments

This morning was argument on severability, meaning what will happen to the remainder of Obamacare if the mandate is held to be unconstitutional. Via Lyle Denniston of ScotusBlog, that dilemma may have some of the Justices rethinking their position on the mandate: The Supreme Court spent 91...

Sourcing narrative “facts” in the Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 128 Comments

Perhaps readers can help me with this. There are two points which have been universally accepted as true in the media, but I have not been able to find evidence in the police and other records released by the City of Sanford. 1. Skittles and Ice...

Sand Soldiers of America

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 3 Comments

In response to my most recent post regarding the two year anniversary of the death of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto, I was contacted by reader Kate in Texas who suggested I alert other readers to Sand Soldiers of America: I read last night about the post you have...

Gas pump Post-It revolt reignites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 62 Comments

From reader Tim, who writes: Was on pump in Wilmington NC earlier this week. Looks like No new oil from anwr, east coast, the gulf. No pipeline from Canada $4 gal Thanks Obama voters I can't imagine that signs like that aren't popping up all across America. Looks like Tim is right,...

Widener makes Top 12 List with Harvard, Yale, other elites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 20 Comments

That's the Good News. The Bad News - It's a list of The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In 2012 from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Widener joins such elite institutions of higher learning as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis and Tufts. Here's the FIRE write-up of why Widener is...

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

O Jerusalem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 17 Comments

Psalm 137 Global March on Jerusalem: "In December, Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh announced the march, calling for the establishment of “the ‘Army of Jerusalem’… in order to take action to liberate Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.”" Hamas demolishes homes, beats residents in Rafah. Oh, that Hamas. State Department still won't say...

Really bad day for right-wing eliminationist narratives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 38 Comments

This has been a really bad day for eliminationist narratives of a rising right-wing terror. First, it turns out that George Zimmerman, rather than being a product of Republican / Tea Party / right-wing talk radio, was a registered Democrat. Now, a federal judge has dismissed all...

Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 100 Comments

Via The Crawdad Hole, a very interesting chart of FBI crime statistics for 2009. What it shows is that whites kill whites, and blacks kill blacks. And interestingly, "other" kills "other." It's not the narrative heard much in the media, because it does not play into stereotypes...

Obamacare Oral Argument, Day 2 – The Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 57 Comments

Tom Goldstein at ScotusBlog has an interim report: Based on the questions posed to Paul Clement, the lead attorney for the state challengers to the individual mandate, it appears that the mandate is in trouble. It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but...

The worst blow yet to Dick Lugar’s narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 5 Comments

It has been a bad week for Dick Lugar: But it just got worse. A critical part of Lugar's campaign narrative is the scare tactic that if Richard Mourdock is the nominee, the seat may be lost to Democrats. I've addressed that argument before, pointing out that Democrat Joe...

Kohler joins Limbaugh boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 75 Comments

Kohler, based in Wisconsin, has joined the Rush Limbaugh boycott, according to tweets it sent out yesterday from its Twitter account, @Kohler: It is not clear that Kohler actually ever advertised on the Limbaugh show, almost certainly not nationally. This may be another of the pre-emptive...

Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 8 Comments

Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll "Lex" LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March 6th,...

Best is the Worst

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 7 Comments

This has some great ones, including a take off on the Coexist sticker, and a "You are not entitled to what I have earned" sticker. But the best is the WORST. From reader Tim: I snapped a shot of these in the lot at Best Buy, in...

UNC – Chapel Hill forbids mention of Limbaugh’s name during sports broadcasts

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

UNC - Chapel Hill now forbids mentioning of names: UNC-Chapel Hill has asked WRDU 106.1, a Triangle station also known as “Rush Radio,” to stop referencing the school or the Tar Heel Sports Network during the broadcast of Rush Limbaugh’s daily talk show on the station. The...

Trayvon Martin case heading towards the political abyss

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 251 Comments

I predicted Saturday night that the Trayvon Martin case was being set up for an explosive outcome in which expectations of a conviction faced the reality of the rights of an accused and evidence which cast "reasonable doubt" on what happened. Two developments today make the facts supporting...

Big win for Jerusalem at Supreme Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 6 Comments

The refusal of the State Department to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, and to issue passports listing Jerusalem as a birthplace in Israel, made its way to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that courts can decide the issue under U.S. statutes. While it appears to...

Obamacare Oral Argument – Day 1

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 19 Comments

This morning was the first day of oral argument in the Supreme Court on challenges to Obamacare. The audio should be available in a little while. Today was the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, which arguably would prohibit court involvement if the mandate were viewed as...