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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2013 33 Comments
In  Heller v. D.C. and McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court made clear that sweeping gun bans are unconstitutional. In response, we are seeing a new trend — don’t “ban” guns, but make it so costly, burdensome, and fraught with legal risk of an innocent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2013 19 Comments
Via Israel Matzav, Chuck Hagel refuses to disclose payments he has received in the last five years from foreigners, Is Chuck roast? Hagel refuses to disclose foreign funding sources: Will this finally be enough to break the Obama administration’s hold over Senate Democrats when it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 38 Comments
Just thought you’d want to know. I’ll try to add some links as the night goes on. Updates: I will not see it, but the idiot malicious nasty fascist anti-Semitic sick-in-the-head BDS movement tried to get all commercials by SodaStream banned from the Super Bowl...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 01, 2013 19 Comments
Today would have been Andrew Breitbart’s 44th birthday; he passed away last year on March 1, 2012. I think there’s another facet of his experience that we ought to appreciate on his birthday. Andrew spoke often of his conversion from living a life outside of...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 29, 2013 9 Comments
More unintended consequences of laws which are too broadly worded. The Atlantic writer Derek Khanna recently named the Most Ridiculous New Law – 2013 a provision which previously had been waived but has come back making it illegal to “unlock” your cellphone.  And while there is...

Posted by Joel Engel on January 28, 2013 28 Comments
Thomas Jefferson thought that the best insurance against future tyrannies was an educated populace.  Historical ignorance is a petri dish that grows a lot of strange and destructive ideas. To wit: Silvio Berlusconi. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy’s political left on...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 21 Comments
Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the “Star Wars Tax Rule”:  The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 78 Comments
There’s no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I was going to write about some “Neo-Confederate” idiocy by a pretend lawyer who happens to be quite obsessed with me over at the liberal blog Glenn Greenwald calls ” a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom.” When you are a liberal blog and...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 26, 2013 55 Comments
The timing of the recent announcement from the Obama Administration that it would lift the ban on women serving in combat positions was fascinating. After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s responsibility dodging and Biden-esque responses to questioning by Senators yesterday, the White House needed a...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 25, 2013 9 Comments
President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was an ode to big government. And, of big government entities, perhaps the most toxic to the American economy is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  However, this federal agency cannot hold a candle to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2013 54 Comments
So writes Caroline Glick: After participating last week in a debate in London about Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines organized by the self-consciously pretentious Intelligence Squared debating society, I can now say from personal experience that Amis is correct. The public atmosphere in...
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