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Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 25, 2012 14 Comments
As the Media Director of the SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition, San Diego’s original Tea Party group, I will be the first to admit that citizen activists are doing a lot of soul searching during this holiday season. After the electoral beating that conservatives took in...

Posted by Joel Engel on December 21, 2012 22 Comments
In the immortal words of Speaker John Boehner (via the New York Times): “God only knows” how Washington is going to get control of its finances. Unlikely as it seems, there may have been more feckless Speakers of the House than John Boehner.  But if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2012 1 Comment
The Blind Are Ivy League Presidents Grossly Overpaid? Fairness — University Presidents Avoid Paying Their Own Taxes Dartmouth Caves to SEIU Most Californians Think Their Public Universities are Politically Biased Data mining may be used to cheat on restrictions on Affirmative Action NC Community Colleges...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 29 Comments
The big shock in the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling was not that the law was upheld.  Most people thought there was a substantial chance Justice Kennedy would side with the four liberal Justices. But almost no one thought that it would be Chief Justice John...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2012 4 Comments
In case you missed it. Things Jersey college student starts 24/7 condom delivery service Cornell researcher — Casual teen hookups increase risk of depression three-fold UC Berkeley honored for diversity activism, sexual scholarship, and inclusion The buzz at U. California–Merced is their special sex toy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 15 Comments
Jews have been under seige and attack in the Swedish city of Malmö for years as leftist policitians turned a blind eye or cooperated in anti-Israeli agitation by Islamists and other pro-Palestinian groups.  See my prior post, Malmö Syndrome.  It is a phenomenon spreading across...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 39 Comments
Taxes are going up you ungrateful kulaks. Top Marginal Tax Rate Will Exceed 50% in California, New York, and Hawaii in 2013 (h/t Instapundit): This paper compares state-by-state estimates of the top marginal effective tax rates (METRs) on wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, and business income for...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 04, 2012 14 Comments
I am responding to Professor Jacobson’s recent post, The Tea Party tsunami at the gates. As the Media Director of SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition (SCTRC), San Diego’s original Tea Party group, I wanted to share my analysis that it won’t be a tsunami — it...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 28, 2012 15 Comments
If you believe Earth is flat, driving due east on the equator for 24,900 miles will leave you unconvinced that it’s in fact round.  Only arriving back at your point of embarkation one mile later will persuade you. Or rather, it should—but probably wouldn’t, judging...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2012 48 Comments
Not THAT again. More “right-wing epistemic closure” rhetoric.  It’s all the rage these days in the wake of Mitt Romney’s loss (keeping a large House majority and gaining in the States conveniently is ignored or belittled). The theory goes that the “right wing” lives in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 35 Comments
I know I sound like a broken record. Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile, more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination. This time, it is the Editorial Board of The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 17 Comments
I had not heard of University of California economics Professor James Bradford Delong until he started attacking me unprovoked, including impugning my teaching about which he knows nothing. I learned quickly that DeLong has many enemies in academia because of his vituperative style of argument, which fast is becoming...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 21, 2012 6 Comments
Every year, young Jews from all over the world show up in Israel and volunteer to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Called “lone soldiers,” they commit to the same enlistment mandated for most Israelis, male and female, and decades more of reserve duty.  As...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 16, 2012 24 Comments
As an amateur Egyptologist who occasionally writes about Egypt at the Temple of Mut, my specialty is mummies. So, I know dead things and can say with certainty: The Tea Party is NOT dead. I have been a Tea Party activist since the first nationwide...
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