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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

Obligations and Voluntary Actions

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 30, 2012 6 Comments

The new Libertarianism.org has amassed a bunch of great essays from CATO scholars and the like. One of my (very) recent favorites is from Aaron Ross Powell, who discusses the nature of political obligation in How We Might Become Politically Obligated, a follow up to...

The perfect Palin-Breitbart Conspiracy World theory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 20 Comments

Today in South Carolina politics: Rumors are swirling based on rumors of rumors that Nikki Haley is going to be indicted for something she did or didn't do almost a decade ago in connection with her family's fundraising to build a Sikh Temple. She denies any...

What would Teddy say if Obamacare goes down?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 22 Comments

I'm not predicting that the mandate or the entirety of Obamacare will go down at the Supreme Court. But based on the oral arguments, those who support the law are in a state of panic. Digging back into Memeorandum from March 23, 2010, when Obamacare was signed into...

A tale of two videos of RI Guardsman killed saving girl in Afghanistan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 9 Comments

Rhode Island Guardsman died saving Afghan girl: According to the Rhode Island National Guard and the U.S. Army, [Spc. Dennis] Weichel was in a convoy a week ago with his unit in Laghman Province, in northeast Afghanistan. Some children were in the road in front of...

I’m WSRM, and I’m Proud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 20 Comments

Feeling a little unloved these days, are you? You have nothing to be ashamed of, you can't help being who you are. After all, no one would chose to be that way in this society. From reader Michael, his very own "message board": This is the bumber sticker message...

Trustees of Martin University Announce School Will Close Permanently

Brown University Launches 'Healing and Recovery Effort' Following Campus Shooting

Virginia Ending In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants Due to DOJ Lawsuit

U. Illinois Hosted State-Funded Committee Meeting Where Professors Advocated for Reparations

U. Maryland Charges Turning Point USA Security Fee for Event

Jeff Bezos' Ex-Wife Sends Millions to Terror-Tied Anti-Israel Network

Yeah, we were serious

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 61 Comments

Circa October 22, 2009: Circa March 25, 2010: Circa March 26, 2010: Circa March 30, 2010: ...

Another low for academia: Anti-Israel “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” Conference at CUNY

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 34 Comments

You need no better example of how twisted parts of academia have become than to look at an anti-Israeli conference being organized at The City University of New York devoted to the issue of "homonationalism and pinkwashing." I have posted before about the "pinkwashing" charge leveled by anti-Israel...

The lifeboats are in the water at the Good Ship Obamacare Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 108 Comments

The challenge to the Obamacare mandate, long dismissed by the legal establishment and media as frivolous and almost unworthy of serious consideration, is on the cusp of victory at the Supreme Court. Credit a few lone legal voices, including at Volokh Conspiracy, with keeping the intellectual...

#StopRush turns into #MediaMattersStopped

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 63 Comments

Earlier this month Media Matters launched its most ferocious boycott effort ever to force Rush Limbaugh off the air by intimidating advertisers. It always was a charade, as documented here many times. Media Matters coordinated with "independent" groups to make it appear that there was a...

Zero

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 38 Comments

It's easy to find unanimous votes in favor of various bills and resolutions in the House of Representatives, but unanimously against? Let me know if this is truly historic, or just profoundly embarrassing for Obama: President Obama's budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in...

National Brotherhoodie Week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 22 Comments

Summering on The Vineyard, wintering at Zuccotti

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 47 Comments

So proud! Can't wait to tell all the summer friends on Martha's Vineyard how Amber confronted the fuzz at Zuccotti Park, just like we did at Columbia in '68. Thanks to reader Joe, who writes: Saw this bumper sticker this morning while cycling through Nyack NY, a community made...

Ten years after the Park Hotel Passover Seder bombing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 21 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Precisely 10 years ago Tuesday evening, a 25-year-old man walked up a short flight of stairs and crossed through the lobby of a modest hotel near the beach in Netanya, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. It was the first night of...

Don’t blame the Obamacare mandate messenger, he had no message

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 63 Comments

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., is under intense fire from the left for botching the mandate argument yesterday. Adam Serwer at Mother Jones is being quoted far and wide: Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the...

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...