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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 17 Comments
I’m very pleased to welcome long-time reader and commenter (CassandraLite) Joel Engel as a contributor at Legal Insurrection. I’ve met Joel twice, and one thing led to another, and here we are. You may have noticed Joel’s first post earlier today, 2016 May Bring Good...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2012 10 Comments
As detailed here many times, there are just as many Jewish refugees from Arab countries as there are Arab refugees from Israel.  The Jewish refugess are the refugees whose name the United Nations dare not speak. Israel finally is starting to put on the table...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2012 4 Comments
In late June I noted that something seemed to have changed in Syria, that the threat to the Assad regime seemed more real than ever. A massive explosion in Syria confirms that indeed things have changed.  The Syrian defense minister and a brother-in-law of Bashar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2012 31 Comments
As you know from the primaries, I’m no fan of John Sununu. But when it comes to Obama’s complete lack of understanding and disdain for what makes this country’s economy work, Sununu got it right yesterday Despite the media hoopla, tell me exactly what was wrong with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 12 Comments
Some flee the sinking ship.  Via Times of Israel: Manaf Tlas, one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s closest friends and most trusted military colleagues, who is also the son of the Assad regime’s former long-serving defense minister, has defected from the Assad regime and fled...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 19 Comments
Or at least they will be soon, via AP: The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on  Yasser Arafat’s remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab  said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 16 Comments
There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can’t tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad’s road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 13 Comments
With so much going on in the domestic political arena, it’s easy for attention to get distracted from the Iranian-Hezollah-Russian attempt to keep Bashar Assad in power. Other than when there is a heavy one-day body count, Syria is not in the U.S. news media...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 35 Comments
The Elizabeth Warren Cherokee saga is like opening up a Russian matryoshka doll, there’s always something else inside. Or perhaps more appropriately, like peeling back The Onion. Please say this is not soooooo! From Michael Patrick Leahy: The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic  Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren...

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 31, 2012 51 Comments
Is this really happening again?  Is Mitt Romney refusing, even assuming he is the nominee which looks likely, to release any more tax returns? Romney released his 2010 return and projections for 2011 only after a disastrous couple of weeks of refusing to do so.  I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2012 76 Comments
Notice how the Obama captured when he doesn’t think he is being recorded is so differenct from campaign Obama.  The  “bitter clinger” remarks and the Netanyahu put-down are the most memorable. And there are the hot mic sound bites which the media won’t release, like CBS refusing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 13 Comments
A state senate race in a normally safe Democratic district in New York has Democrats worried.  (h/t reader Tom) Down to the wire in too-close-to-call Southern Brooklyn Senate race (emphasis mine): The too-close-to-call state Senate race in southern Brooklyn was down to the  wire Wednesday, with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2012 52 Comments
Fake: Real: Fake fake fake fake, but a real problem, don’t you think?  People still think Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her backyard. Elsewhere: Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Who Castrated Ann Coulter? Well, he does have a nice healthy smile. Why is...
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