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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2011 38 Comments
A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge has issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the publication (i.e. implementation) of the budget repair bill. I have not seen the opinion yet — it is unclear whether there is a written opinion or this was issued orally from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2011 15 Comments
Jared Loughner was not a political person, so far as has been revealed to date.  There is no evidence whatsoever that Loughner was inspired by, or even listened to, right wing radio or commentators, much less ever saw the 10-month old Sarah Palin electoral target map which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 33 Comments
12-24-2010:  Welcome Matthew Yglesias readers.  I address Yglesias’ defense of why he called Haley Barbour racist, and his attack on me, in an update below.  And I see that Ta-Nehisi Coates is defending Yglesias, so I’ll address that too. —————————————————– 1947 was the year in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 5 Comments
Ann Heller sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about her recent well-received biography of Ayn Rand. I think Heller “gets it”, she “[thinks] the core of [Rand’s] appeal is her deep love of freedom … old fashioned American values, hard work, application of your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2010 30 Comments
Prof. Stephen Bainbridge and Dan Riehl have been debating the Delaware Senate Republican primary, and whether it is worth electing “RINO” Mike Castle.  Bainbridge says yes, Riehl says no. I don’t know enough about Castle or Christine O’Donnell to weigh in on whether Castle is...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 0 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is one of the most polarizing Senators. His favorite form of argument is reduced to the following: “You are bad, we are good.” If you were from Rhode Island, as I am, you would understand that this has been Whitehouse’s political character...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2010 8 Comments
According to the most recent Gallup poll, support among Americans for Israel over the Palestinians is at a near all time high. 63% of Americans (more than voted for Barack Obama) support Israel, while only 15% support the Palestinians, with 23% choosing “both/neither/no opinion.” Despite...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments
The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission. The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2010 1 Comment
That seems to be the point of David Savage’s intellectually dishonest column in the L.A. Times. Savage tries to link Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the 2002 “torture memo” written by Thomas’ former clerk, John Yoo. Savage’s argument is that Thomas’ view of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 34 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I am cursed with two of the looniest Congressmen in existence, Patrick Kennedy in my home state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Maurice Hinchey in Ithaca, NY, where I live during the academic year. In the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2009 11 Comments
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” That’s the feeling I had listening to Obama’s speech tonight about his military designs for Afghanistan. The speech followed pre-speech reports of Obama’s plan. There were no substantive surprises, but Obama seemed truly moved by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2009 9 Comments
See Update below——————————————- Politico is one of the class acts in internet news to which I link frequently, and Ben Smith is a justifiably respected commentator at Politico. Which is why it pains me to have to point out that yesterday Smith unfairly smeared Robert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2009 36 Comments
The increasingly hysterical use of the the race card by liberal columnists, bloggers and politicians reflects the last gasps of people who, being unable to win an argument on the merits, seek to end the argument. While the false accusation of racism is not a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2009 10 Comments
Paul Krugman proved, once again, why he has no credibility. In a column in today’s New York Times, titled “The Big Hate,” Krugman blames conservatives for the shooting at the Holocaust Museum because conservatives have had the audacity to harshly criticize the Obama administration. Krugman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2009 10 Comments
I didn’t know what the term “shorter” meant until I started blogging. A “shorter” is someone who exaggerates someone else’s opinion, or creates a false choice between two extremes. Back in the day, such form of argument would be called setting up a “strawman.” As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2009 2 Comments
The California Supreme Court has issued a split ruling, upholding Proposition 8 but also upholding the validity of gay marriages which took place prior to passage of Prop. 8. Proposition 8 enshrined in the California Constitution the traditional definition of marriage, providing that only marriages...
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