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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 11, 2013 12 Comments
The ACLU has just filed a lawsuit challenging several in the Obama administration over its indiscriminate scooping up of phone records. From the ACLU’s website: In the wake of the past week’s revelations about the NSA’s unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, today the ACLU...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 22, 2013 6 Comments
Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post. (I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.) .@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di… — James Taranto...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 9 Comments
Last Monday I appeared as a guest of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization to give a talk at my alma mater, Hamilton College. AHI is not affiliated with Hamilton. To the contrary, as discussed here before, Hamilton would not allow...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 23, 2013 28 Comments
They can sit in the dark for Earth Hour, we'll spend the hour celebrating the modern world, starting 8:30 p.m. local time everywhere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2012 11 Comments
if you are looking for a last minute tax deduction to help starve the beast. No, not LI, donations here are appreciated but are NOT tax deductible. There are many worthy organizations, but let me suggest one you almost certainly have not heard of, The Alexander Hamilton Insitute for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2012 10 Comments
This is a follow up to my prior post, Stevie Wonder cancels pro-Israel concert under pressure from U.N., anti-Israel groups and Like Alanis Morissette, Chaka Khan was not intimidated, Friends of IDF event spurned by Stevie Wonder raises more than $14 million: The Friends of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 60 Comments
But I’m already sizing up Operation Counterweight Senate races for 2014. Don’t look back is my motto. Roll Call has a list of Senate races and assessments.   Do any of them have serious primary challengers?  Lindsay Graham seems like he could be vulnerable in theory,...

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 November 14, 2011 5 Comments
The narrative is being set.  Mitt Romney will be the nominee because all other candidate are faltering, and cannot hold up. Who is setting this narrative?  In addition to the usual suspects, add Politico, as in this post by Alexander Burns: Conservatives don’t like him....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 23 Comments
Below is the video in which Mitch McConnell sets forth his proposal, and here is the WaPo analysis: McConnell’s proposal would have the effect of forcing Obama and congressional Democrats to take full responsibility for raising the debt limit, and require Democrats to vote on...
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