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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 4 Comments
Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm.  There was  a truly abysmal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 13 Comments
Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case.  Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It’s hard to believe that this day has arrived.  We have been covering Prop 8 almost...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 28, 2013 9 Comments
1) Water, water everywhere At the Times of Israel, editor David Horovitz writes about how Israel’s dealt with its water crisis. (h/t Yaacov Lozowick) “How did we beat the water shortage? Because we said we would. We decided we would,” says Kushnir, a big man...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 8 Comments
We’ve delved the depths of the despicable Boycott Divest Sanction movement against Israel. We are dealing with real bottom-feeders who have worked their ways onto campuses almost everywhere, supported by vicious people like George Galloway. Given the sordid history of Leftist-Islamist anti-Israel campus agitation, particularly...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 8 Comments
1) It’s been more than 20 years  Jonathan Tobin writes in The Day the War on America Began: Exactly 20 years ago on this date, a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center took the lives of six people and injured more than a thousand...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 26, 2013 5 Comments
1) Why are they staying away?  Yesterday the New York Times reported Syrian Opposition’s Complaints Shadow Kerry’s First Official Trip: Mr. Kerry and foreign ministers from Europe and the Middle East are scheduled to meet in Rome on Thursday with opponents of President Bashar al-Assad...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 38 Comments
Just thought you’d want to know. I’ll try to add some links as the night goes on. Updates: I will not see it, but the idiot malicious nasty fascist anti-Semitic sick-in-the-head BDS movement tried to get all commercials by SodaStream banned from the Super Bowl...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2012 14 Comments
Fighting the conservative media on Newt, including attempts to strip Newt of his accomplishments and history. Defending Rush against Media Matters and StopRush. Helping advance Mia Love to national attention. Fighting the false racial narrative in the Trayvon Martin shooting. Helping to defeat Richard Lugar....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 52 Comments
As we move into 2013 and the legal insurrections, we should learn from history. As Thomas Lifson at American Thinker points out, now that the major institutions have been surrendered, it’s time to emulate the left, Here comes the Alinskyite Right: David Gregory and Piers...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on December 22, 2012 11 Comments
The newly drafted Islamist-backed constitution in Egypt appears to be on the path to approval, but that is doing little to quell the sustained feeling of instability in the country. Passage is a victory for Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, but a costly one. The bruising...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 8 Comments
The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies having pushed through a draft Constitution which, according to the opposition, tramples the rights of non-Islamists, and fails to protect civil liberties and women, left the opposition in a bind. The drafting of a new Constitution relied on good faith...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 14 Comments
Interesting post at an interesting blog run by Yaacov Lozowick for the Israeli State Archives, What’s a Proportional Response? Here’s a fascinating document from December 13th 1955, in which the Ministers’ Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs discussed a clash which had taken place two...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 11 Comments
This is courage week for Canada.  First, a very strong statement of support for Israel at the U.N. Now, unlike Stevie Wonder, who cancelled a pro-Israel concert under mild pressure from the U.N. and anti-Israel groups, Alanis Morissette, the Canadian singer, has arrived in Israel for...
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