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Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2013 29 Comments
As a citizen activist, I remember how thrilled we were with the results of the 2010 election, in which the Republicans made enormous gains that were suppose to protect the free market. Fast forward to 2013.  The Senate has just approved the “Marketplace Fairness Act“,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2013 3 Comments
From LukeHandCool: This van was heading west towards the beach down Wilshire Boulevard in the Peeps Progressive Republic of Santa Monica, California. Only kind of bumper sticker mentioning the troops you’ll usually see here on the Westside of L.A. is the disingenuous, “Support Our Troops,...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 5 Comments
1) The innocence of the Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 14, 2012: Remarks by #SecClinton at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony to Honor Those Lost in Attacks in Benghazi, #Libya http://t.co/1aQUi58z — Department of State (@StateDept) September 14, 2012 This has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 29 Comments
You may recall my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals: … I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever,...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 5 Comments
My son just earned his Space Exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. So, we were very interested to learn about plans to rope-an-asteroid for closer study: The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2013 6 Comments
Terry McAuliffe, perennial Democratic partisan and Clintonite, wants to be Governor of Virginia. But he has a problem. A big problem, Terry McAuliffe’s Solyndra.  Go read the article at the link.  All you need to know is in this Dukakis-in-a-tank-like photo: While the issue had received...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 30, 2013 3 Comments
I have an update on a legal hearing involving UCLA’s Dr. James Enstrom, whose brave whistleblowing actions involving the school’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences cost him his job. William Creeley, the Director of Legal and Public Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in...

Posted by Joel Engel on March 30, 2013 27 Comments
Opponents of nuclear power plants were cheered by the results of a recent study suggesting that, with public health in mind, more of these marvels that turn out cheap, clean energy ought to be shut down. Closing a nuclear reactor in California [in 1989] has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 36 Comments
The oral argument just concluded.  The audio will be posted later.  Update — Audio is here. Transcript is here. Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits — as if the spin matters. I’ll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 13 Comments
Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case.  Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It’s hard to believe that this day has arrived.  We have been covering Prop 8 almost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2013 13 Comments
In August 2010, when Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in favor of those seeking to overturn Prop. 8 (thereby effectively legalizing gay marriage in California), I noted that Judge Walker seemed almost to be taking a role as advocate (emphasis added): Throughout the opinion, the Judge goes...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2013 26 Comments
I’ve been a pretty harsh critic of David Frum, but when he gets something right, I’m willing to acknowledge it. And he’s right about the pro-amnesty wave taking over the Republican Party, which mistakenly thinks rewarding lawlessness is a good thing. Frum writes, Immigration Amnesty: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2013 28 Comments
Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in the country, it’s crushed by unsustainable public sector salaries and pensions which are protected by union control of the legislature and politicians at every level, it is one of only two states losing population and may lose one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 18 Comments
The NY Gun law effectively banned the purchase of new pistols because pistols are not generally made to hold 7-round magazines, and even if some manufacturers would produce such magazines for the NY market, it still presented a constitutional problem:  Under the Heller and McDonald...
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