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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2012 39 Comments
As we debate new gun legislation, shouldn’t we have facts not feelings drive the issue? We’ve heard that mass shootings are on the increase, but they are not. We’ve heard that school homicides and violence are on the rise, but they are not. Dianne Feinstein...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 16, 2012 63 Comments
Progressive gun control advocates were clamoring for more liberty-crushing legislation immediately after the slaughter of the young students and teachers at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Meanwhile, others cry “white privilege” because most mass shooting suspects are white. Yet, one critically important aspect continues to get...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2012 65 Comments
Yesterday I posted about how Alan Dershowitz alleged that Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey called up Harvard Law School complaining about Dershowitz and treatening to sue for libel based on Dershowitz’s criticisms of her handling of the case. The whole incident seemed strange, and reflected conduct that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 251 Comments
I predicted Saturday night that the Trayvon Martin case was being set up for an explosive outcome in which expectations of a conviction faced the reality of the rights of an accused and evidence which cast “reasonable doubt” on what happened. Two developments today make the facts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2012 21 Comments
Via The Times of Israel: Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of the Toulouse Jewish school massacre, was still holed up in his house in northern Toulouse early Wednesday afternoon after a pre-dawn gun battle. Merah had given up a pistol in exchange for a mobile...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2012 35 Comments
One of my big regrets is not making more of a connection with Alan Dershowitz while in law school. I didn’t take any of his classes, but I did have some interaction with him since he was the faculty advisor to the Jewish Law Students Association. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2012 78 Comments
If you haven’t heard of Ludmya “Mia” B. Love before, you will be hearing a lot more about her.  Mia has the potential to be the next big thing in conservative politics. And you heard about her here first! Mia is the American-born daughter of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 7 Comments
The Best Bumper Sticker of the Year, Worst Bumper Sticker of the Year and Best Tweet of the Year competitions have left me on the verge of blogger burnout, but I soldier on, because that’s just the way I am.  And the internet never stops. The Worst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2011 21 Comments
* a piece of pizza shaped like a gun. This is from the “you can’t make this stuff up” file (h/t @SteveEgg via @SykesCharlie): For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the “silent table” for allegedly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2011 14 Comments
To its credit, The New York Times ran the video produced by the Wisconsin Republican Party of signs carried by union protesters against the Governor of Wisconsin (featured in my post here), under the headline Republicans Accuse Liberals of Hateful Rhetoric in Wisconsin: The Republican Party of Wisconsin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 62 Comments
If you have noticed, I am very intolerant of cheap shots and snide comments directed at Sarah Palin, particularly when those cheap shots and snide comments come from conservative bloggers and Republican politicians. Perhaps I react this way because when Palin Derangement Syndrome first struck...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2011 19 Comments
I just watched a 60 Minutes segment on Jared Loughner, which included interviews with some of his friends. The segment confirmed that Loughner’s grudge against Gabrielle Giffords dates back at least to the time he met her in 2007, when he posed a question to her...
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