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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 0 Comments
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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 1 Comment
This is an update on the Upstate New York races covered last month as part of Operation Counterweight, and as before was prepared by a Cornell undergraduate student who prefers to remain anonymous. Included at the bottom of each race update are the newest Cook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 9 Comments
Friend of the blog, blogger, and commenter Ric Locke (warlocketx) has bad news on his blog (h/t Instapundit), It’s Lung Cancer: Stage III, inoperable. Median survival prognosis: One year after diagnosis. Which is, as it turns out, the reason I haven’t been accomplishing much, including...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2012 39 Comments
No one saw this coming. We have followed the saga of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard for over a year. The decision on whether to grant endagered species status to the lizard was not expected until tomorrow.  Granting protected status to the lizard would have threatened oil...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 49 Comments
Opening new post for post-results — problems with embedded tweet codes here. % Reporting – 95 Mourdock – 60 Lugar – 40 Sen. John Kerry: Sen. Lugar’s defeat is a “tragedy for the Senate” #INSEN — Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) May 9, 2012 Obama: As a friend...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 13 Comments
When Indiana primary voters go to the polls on May 8, they should remember that in 2008 Dick Lugar verbally embraced Barack Obama and gave Obama bipartisan cover at a critical time in the campaign, so much so that Lugar became a prominent fixture in Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 8 Comments
Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll “Lex” LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2011 3 Comments
I have posted many times before about David Cicilline, former Mayor of Providence who hid the city’s financial problems during the 2010 election, and ran a scare grandma campaign, allowing him a relatively (for Rhode Island) narrow win over John Loughlin in my home RI-01...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 13 Comments
Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: President Barack Obama told a meeting  of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will  not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body, arguing against  a proposed resolution...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2011 6 Comments
Well, he keeps saying we need to emulate China. This video has caused a stir: The controversy was not the protest, but that the White House communications team threatened to suspended the reporter who took the videotape, because multimedia coverage of Obama’s fundraiser was not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2011 56 Comments
That seems to be the import of the ruling by federal Judge Gladys Kessler in upholding the Obamacare mandate in a suit brought by a group of private plaintiffs in Mead v. Holder (pg. 45, emphasis mine): As previous Commerce Clause cases have all involved...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 19, 2011 11 Comments
(K McCaffrey) — I’ve read two really fascinating articles in the past twenty-four hours. In Politico, Roger Simon delved into some interesting territory by discussing coverage of the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner. In “Is Jared Loughner insane or just evil?” Simon looks at our modern...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 26, 2010 7 Comments
Today we’re running a guest column from Michael Alan, a freshman in Cornell’s school of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Michael is a contributor to the Cornell Review, and hails from Lewisburg, PA. The Albany Times-Union reported last week that the records from NY Governor...
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