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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 27, 2009 4 Comments
Scott Eric Kaufman, at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, thought counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings was a cool way to prove that Palin and her supporters were racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in available photos. In fact, all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2009 8 Comments
I thought we weren’t allowed to talk this way when dealing with foreigners: “It’s a battle — we’re going to win — take no prisoners,” the first lady said with a smile at a roundtable discussion with reporters in the White House State Dining Room....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2009 8 Comments
South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson called Barack Obama a liar for claiming that Obama’s health reform proposals do not apply to illegal aliens. As I pointed out before, whether Wilson or Obama is right on the subject depends upon which health care bill one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2009 2 Comments
A court in Great Britain has found that a religious Jewish school engaged in racial discrimination by applying the traditional definition of who is a Jew as part of its admissions policy. Traditionally, whether one is Jewish is determined by maternal lineage. If one’s mother...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 25 Comments
Liberal bloggers and media groups can’t get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, to them. Ordinary people getting together to protest against the liberal establishment. There is a cognitive disconnect. There must be a plot; the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 7 Comments
The dispute regarding the appointment of Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, to the top legal position at the State Department is heating up with the announcement that a coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment
George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother. I first learned of George Bisharat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2009 4 Comments
This is one of those man-bites-dog stories. We all know about the shoes thrown at George Bush, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and yesterday at the Israeli Ambassador to Sweden. In Ithaca, NY, the prevailing power structure is represented by Socialist Mayor Carol Peterson. Last year...
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