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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 06, 2012 6 Comments

CEI has published a study about private property laws in outer space by Rand Simberg, one of the best people qualified to write on the topic. In sum, Simberg claims that the U.S. should recognize claims on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids and gives a loose foundation for...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 23 Comments

Don't expect Media Matters to boycott the Senate candidate. Because the candidate is a Democrat. And an Israel-hater. She called her male primary opponent a "whore" for AIPAC.  Via Mediaite: “I’m dealing with a whore here who sells his soul to AIPAC [The American Israel Public Affairs Committee], who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 13 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca, this is a variation on the ubiquitous anti-fracking bumper stickers. Gas or water? This driver obviously chose gas, because the car was filthy. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 38 Comments

For blogs, my "Blogs I Read" list in the sidebar and many of the Blogs to Note are my go to places.  But, I'm constantly on the prowl for better places to get "news" - whatever that means. As you know, I dropped Politico as a regular...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 34 Comments

and that cannot be limited without being lost." On the other hand: And so it was written, and so it is done (at 5:45): "In New York City, which you're visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 12 Comments

This is very big news (h/t Pwire), as it punctures the Richard Lugar air of inevitability: U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar is in the most precarious position of his political career since autumn 1974 when he unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh. A Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll released...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 53 Comments

The DOJ just filed its letter to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the authority of federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of congressional laws. The letter was signed by Eric Holder, and says in pertinent part: The longstanding, historical position ofthe United States...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 40 Comments

As with so much else in this case, the original media report of George Zimmerman using the pejorative "coons," which has been accepted as true and then repeated endlessly by the left blogosphere and mainstream media, now is in doubt. An enhanced analysis now appears to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 13 Comments

Chris Christie is visiting Israel, and got a chance to look out at Syria from the Golan Heights. Tweet of the Day from @jennaportnoy: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments

You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called "independent" groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 22 Comments

Um, there's so much I could say, so many comparisons I could make. But I'm not going to go there.  Because he knows who has been naughty, and I don't want to get fishy flagged or end up on an #attackwatch list like Fuzzy. From a reader who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 32 Comments

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was interviewed by Doug McIntyre of California radio station 790 KABC regarding Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was named Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. McIntyre ripped into Villaraigosa's record, to which Wasserman-Schultz responded: "I really find your comments disappointing and borderline offensive." Borderline offensive? Offensive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 52 Comments

I knew I shouldn't have looked back. I have not read Jennifer Rubin in weeks. She has become so odious in her Romneyquest that reading her posts is like sipping poison; it doesn't kill you but it makes you nauseated. Every time I read one of her insulting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 82 Comments

on what basis would sex-selective abortion be regulated? I previously highlighted the problem, When A Woman’s Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women – In The U.S. Via James Pethokoukis comes this article about the spread of sex-selective abortion in the U.S.,  Unwelcome import: Sex selective abortion: I’d read...

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