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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 16, 2011 24 Comments
From The Corner: she is almost entirely a creature of liberals who want to use her as a prop to discredit and attack conservatives. I gather Meghan thinks she is some kind of youth recruiter for a hipper form of conservatism or Republicanism or something....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 17 Comments
Via The Cornell Insider: “[The Cornell University Program Board] is excited to present An Evening with Keith Olbermann ’79 on March 29th at 6:00 PM in Bailey Hall! Olbermann needs no introduction, but in case you’re unaware, he is a writer and political commentator who...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 05, 2011 21 Comments
Bill Maher ’78, the most deranged and arrogant Cornell alum on the air by default since Olbermann was pulled, managed to make a news story into an insult about Sarah Palin for the millionth time. [On Charlie Sheen] “So yes, it’s childish, it’s needlessly defensive,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2011 29 Comments
Medical malpractice tort reform is one of those supposed remedies frequently mentioned as a cure to lowering health care costs.  Currently being debated is H.R. 5 (most recent mark up here) which would create a federal medical malpractice reform modeled on what has taken place...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 3 Comments
K. McCaffrey — My friend Jonathan, a gov major at Cornell, is keeping a blog while studying abroad in Syria. One of the few American students studying in the area (and definitely the most sympathetic to our causes), his writing has given me excellent insight...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments
This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 30, 2011 2 Comments
One of my friends at Cornell is keeping a blog as he studies abroad in Syria. Jonathan Panter is a conservative in support of Bush foreign policy, as well as a junior government major at Cornell. He speaks Arabic and has traveled extensively in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 29, 2011 10 Comments
(K. McCaffrey) — In Egypt, the internet has effectively been shut off. One of my favorite websites, www.accessnow.org/, which looks to preserve freedom by upholding internet access, is working hard on cracking this. (They also continually try to liberate freedom of information for Iranian citizens.)...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 25, 2011 15 Comments
Peter Thiel has been making a splash lately by calling higher education “the next bubble.” In a fairly recent Wall Street Journal article, he went as far as to say “Liberals […] blame our education system, but liberals are the last ones to fix it,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2011 12 Comments
Criticism of Supreme Court Justices is nothing new.  We do it and they do it. But the latest tactic in going after two Supreme Court Justices, Scalia and Thomas, seems out of the ordinary.  Since the first of this year we have seen three charges...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 09, 2011 11 Comments
There was a recent article in the WSJ by Amy Chua detailing the superiority of Chinese mothers. “[The author was] using the term “Chinese mother” loosely. [As s]ome Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents qualify too.” Basically, being a Chinese mother entails never letting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 1 Comment
I will not mention the entity whose name is banned from these pages by popular vote, even though it appears that at least one of its branches doesn’t even want to use its name anymore. I merely will quote an article (emphasis mine): The Coffee Party Ithaca...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 11 Comments
More dumbed-down talk about the Constitution from Tea Parties liberal columnists, this time Amanda Terkel (formerly of Think Progress) writing at HuffPo with the headline: Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination Gee, Scalia must hate women. Except that the headline is a good example...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2010 12 Comments
Following up on my Official Predictions and Not Predictions for 2011, I have put together, with input from readers, Legal Insurrection’s Official New Year’s Resolutions. Actually, it comes down to just a single resolution, as follows: To keep up the fight against a seemingly unstoppable expansion of government...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2010 35 Comments
I am trying to take this advice, offered by a regular reader, to heart (emphasis mine): “Professor Jacobson, A long time ago my grandfather gave me some very good advice I often follow, but not all the time, due to my competitiveness. I am sure...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 4 Comments
Alfred Kahn has passed away.  As you travel during the holidays, shopping around for cheap airfares, you have Kahn to thank.  Kahn, a Professor at Cornell, was responsible for deregulating the airline industry. I realize all you kids think airfare competition always has been a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2010 17 Comments
That’s the title of a post by Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge about Economics Professor Brad DeLong, of U.Cal Berkeley, in which Bainbridge collects links about DeLong from a variety of academic bloggers who have had the misfortune of having to deal with DeLong. I really...
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