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Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 05, 2013 20 Comments
“Capitalism works for me. In my life this is: true or false.” That’s the choice being posed to passersby in Times Square in New York City over the next few days as part of an art installation. The artist, Steve Lambert, says he wanted to create...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2013 34 Comments
Among the nicest things the Democratic smear machine called Sarah Palin was “Caribou Barbie.” Just about everything else they called her was much worse. The term “Caribou Barbie” started within days of Palin’s nomination for Veep in August 2008.  By September 2, 2008, the term was spreading...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 14, 2013 14 Comments
As the defense neared the end of its side in the sentencing phase of Bradley Manning’s trial, the convicted Wikileaker spoke to the court himself today.  In an unsworn statement, he began with an apology, saying, “I am sorry that my actions hurt people; I...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 31, 2013 37 Comments
Of the 50 states in the US, 49 of them require the State to disprove a defendant’s claim of self-defense, beyond a reasonable doubt. Ohio, on the other hand, requires that the defendant prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. Why is Ohio Such...

Posted by New Neo on July 19, 2013 111 Comments
Either President Obama identifies pretty strongly with Trayvon Martin, or he’s pretending to do so for political purposes. First we had Obama’s statement that, if he’d had a son, he’d have looked like Martin. That was fairly early in the game. But now, post-verdict, we...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 12, 2013 149 Comments
This morning saw the defense give its closing statement in Florida v. Zimmerman, the last opportunity for them to deliver their compelling narrative of innocence to the jury. And boy, did Mark O’Mara deliver. In a closing rich with evidence, facts, and the law, O’Mara focused...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 10, 2013 355 Comments
The defense team continued on what is expected to be the last day of their presentation of their case. The day began and ended with a bang.  This morning Judge Nelson denied the defense’s request to introduce their animated movie as evidence, although they will...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 07, 2013 298 Comments
Immediately following the close of the State’s case on Friday, Mark O’Mara, the lawyer leading George Zimmerman’s defense team, stood before Judge Nelson and made his oral motion for a judgment of acquittal for his client (a parallel written motion was also submitted to the...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 02, 2013 65 Comments
This week, The Frontier Lab published the results of months of research into why some Republicans are refusing to go by the label “Republican,” choosing to identify as anything but. I was the Research Director for this study, which applied a research approach called “Behavioral...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2013 26 Comments
[Note — More decisions will be released Tuesday — check back here at 10 a.m.] Full opinion embedded at bottom of post Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:14 Amy Howe: The opoinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. 10:15 Amy Howe: The holding...

Posted by David Gerstman on June 02, 2013 3 Comments
1) Remember when they used to talk about Israel like this? I’m not used to Arabs talking this way about Arabs: Brigadier General Salim Idris, the current chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Council of the FSA, said: “If the attacks of Hezbollah [on]...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 23, 2013 0 Comments
1) Middle East arms deal The United States is concluding an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hoagland: arms deal “weaken the only containment strategy Obama consistently practiced – the containment of Israel” wapo.st/12D0xtp — Shmuel Rosner (@rosnersdomain) April 23,...
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