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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 17, 2010 8 Comments
This weekend, I found myself in San Francisco International Airport for a long weekend in the Bay Area. After a pleasant weekend, and then a wait in an egregiously long line, I found myself in one of the famed full body scanners, the subject of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2010 2 Comments
Homepage report at Firedoglake on last night’s elections.  Dems wiped out in the House, serious setbacks in the Senate, Statehouses gone … but damn it, they defeated California Prop. 19, a “they took the bar” moment if ever there were one: The homophobic pot bigots won,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2010 21 Comments
They were born that way.  They didn’t choose it; no one would make such a choice.  It’s not a lifestyle.  They are entitled to the same protected status as other recognized minority groups.  While the framers of the 14th Amendment may not have had them...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2010 5 Comments
Those anti-pot folks are really just anti-gay bigots anyway, via AlterNet: “Predictably, the anti-pot forces have brought everything they have — mostly hyperbole, in other words — to the battle. To hear them tell it, California’s very future is at stake, and not only that but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 8 Comments
I think a lot of conservatives are afraid to put bumper stickers on their cars for fear of vandalism.  Call it the “driving while conservative” phenomenon; or maybe “parking while conservative.” Vandalism of McCain signs, and houses/car bearing those signs, was widespread during the 2008...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2010 21 Comments
Jerry Brown was caught on audio agreeing with an aide who called Meg Whitman a “whore.” (Audio below at 1:55) Understandably, all the attention is focused on the “whore” comment.  But there was another Brown insult which has not received any attention.  Beginning at 3:10 of the audio,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2010 4 Comments
Jonathan Adler at Volokh Conspiracy (via Instapundit) has a very good take down of the nutroots best and brightest economics-professor blogger, Brad DeLong: Would you consider it sound for one academic to attack a paper written by another, calling it (among other things) “obviously erroneous”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 11 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 32 Comments
Gloria Allred is doing more to drive illegal immigrants underground and to target Latinos for racial profiling than anything the State of Arizona has even thought of doing. Allred dropped a late-September surprise on Meg Whitman based on the allegation that Whitman did not do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 3 Comments
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is an association, er, of American law schools.  The AALS annual meeting, which is held early in January, is a big event in the law professor community. I first posted about the AALS annual meeting back in November 2008, when some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2010 19 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Democrat Loretta Sanchez (CA-47) is being challenged by Republican Van Tran, who is of Vietnamese descent.  Sanchez made news when she said: “El Viatnamese y los republicanos tratando...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2010 1 Comment
Kos Media sued Research 2000 back in late June, after incendiary accusations by Markos Moulitsas that Research 2000 issued fraudulent polling data. Now the parties have agreed on the “basic terms of settlement” which will require a “series of actions to be taken by each...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 18 Comments
Bill Sparkman.  Amy Bishop.  The Fort Hood Shooter.  The IRS Plane Crasher.  The Pentagon Shooter. People who had nothing to do with each other in the real world.  In the blogosphere, each of these people was linked by a macabre desire by the left-wing blogosphere to find a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2010 6 Comments
The Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has granted a stay pending an expedited appeal of the District Court Order which held that California Prop. 8 violated the U.S. Constitution. The Court specifically ordered the supporters of Prop. 8 to brief if they had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2010 5 Comments
In their Emergency Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal, the supporters of Prop. 8 focus on the unique role of heterosexual marriage, and quote Barack Obama as one of many authorities: As an initial matter, redefining marriage in this manner would eliminate California’s ability to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2010 0 Comments
The backers of California Prop. 8 have filed an Emergency Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in light of the denial of a stay pending appeal by Judge Vaughn Walker earlier today. Here is part of the summary...
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