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Sheldon Whitehouse Steamrolls Republican Caucus – Jack McConnell Survives Cloture Vote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 13 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse has steamrolled over the Republican caucus, and his nominee for the Rhode Island federal District Court, John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr., will get a floor vote which Democrats have the votes to win. The final vote was 63-33 (with one “present”). By my...

Does Wisconsin 2011 = U.S.A. 2012?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2011 26 Comments

Alexander Burns at Politico argues that Wisconsin in 2011 is a template for what will happen nationally in 2012, a split electorate with a narrow margin of victory: Wisconsin’s contested Supreme Court race has set in motion a drama that’s by now almost painfully familiar....

A historical double-standard

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 02, 2011 18 Comments

Kathleen City Journal‘s Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov’s 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War. journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors...

Maybe Anna Chapman Wasn’t Such A Joke After All

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2010 6 Comments

When the story broke last June about the arrest of 10 Russian sleeper agents, none of whom seemed to be in a position to do any real damage, many people laughed at the supposed ineptitude of the Russian secret services, and joked about femme fatale Anna Chapman....

Saturday Night Card Game (Amnesty Advocates)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2010 1 Comment

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: On February 25, 2010, the People for Change group in Prince George’s County Maryland held a town hall forum to discuss the impacts of illegal immigration on local...

THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2009 16 Comments

The internet is alive with the sound of people analyzing the CBO’s “scoring” of the Max Baucus aka Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill. Before everyone gets too deeply into their thoughts, please keep in mind the following (get ready, all CAPS, bold, indented signifies...

What to Do About John C. Yoo?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2009 0 Comments

What to Do About John C. Yoo? That is the question posed in a Wall Street Journal Law Blog post. The post is quite fair and balanced; after all, it’s not a NY Times post. But the post does discuss a front-page NY Times article...