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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 35 Comments

I posted previously about Ariann Huffington's business model, Hey HuffPo Bloggers – Was It Fun Working For Free To Make Arianna Richer?: First, let me congratulate Arianna Huffington on selling The Huffington Post to AOL for a reported $315 million.  Isn’t America a great place? Arianna came...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 57 Comments

This is getting ridiculous. The police report prepared the night of the Trayvon Martin shooting, long before it was expected that this case would get national attention, recited that the police observed Zimmerman with a bloody nose and rear head bleeding, and that Zimmerman was treated...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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