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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 5 Comments
John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday after a struggle by Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senators to block the nomination by opposing an unexpected cloture petition filed by Harry Reid. A key group of Republican Senators, led by...

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....

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City Journal‘s Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov’s 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War.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...

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....

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...

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...

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...
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