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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2009 4 Comments
Is the collapse of the Soviet Union a reasonable analogy for what may happen in Iran? There are certain parallels, including repressive regimes bent on imposing ideology to perpetuate their own rule. In each case, it is hard to imagine how the repression could end,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2009 9 Comments
In the aftermath of the passage of California Proposition 8, which enshrined the traditional definition of marriage into the California Constitution, some gay marriage advocates engaged in anti-Mormon agitation, as I documented repeatedly. There were ugly scenes of protesters carrying signs urging a boycott of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2009 2 Comments
The California Supreme Court has issued a split ruling, upholding Proposition 8 but also upholding the validity of gay marriages which took place prior to passage of Prop. 8. Proposition 8 enshrined in the California Constitution the traditional definition of marriage, providing that only marriages...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 0 Comments
For the past several Supreme Court nominations, the hot issue has been abortion. Whether a nominee supported Roe v. Wade was the litmus test, both for conservatives and liberals. Predictably, nominees shied away from opining on whether they would vote to uphold either the outcome...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2009 0 Comments
While Obama is reaching out to moderate pirates, John Kerry is calling for hearings on pirates (ooh, I bet they’re scared of congressional subpoena power). This is just another instance of Kerry betraying his matees. The pirates Kerry now attacks had endorsed Kerry for President,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment
George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother. I first learned of George Bisharat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2009 0 Comments
Hamas set off a massive roadside bomb at the Gaza border, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding several on the Israeli side of the border. In return fire, one Palestinian was killed. So how do British papers report the story? Here are the headlines: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2009 0 Comments
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich just finished a press conference in which he claimed that he is not participating in the Senate impeachment trial, scheduled to start Monday, because the Senate impeachment trial rules deprive Blagojevich of a fundamentally fair hearing. Blagojevich is right that he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2009 1 Comment
The Associated Press already has announced that Hamas is “restoring order” to Gaza, just like Hamas did in July 2007, before the Israeli invasion. The UN is decrying the “alarming” humanitarian situation, just like it did in July 2008, before the Israeli invasion. And British...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2009 4 Comments
As we get closer to Barack Obama taking office, the cry for “war crimes” trials of Bush administration lawyers who expressed legal opinions regarding coerced interrogation grows louder. I have yet to hear anyone call for a war crimes trial for the attorneys during the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2009 0 Comments
In a guest column in The Providence Journal, Susanne Garrison Hoder of Tiverton, Rhode Island, “founder of the Interfaith Peace Initiative,” compares Israel to Auschwitz prison guards: “The new movie The Reader is a powerful drama about a young man who discovers that a woman...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2008 0 Comments
My article, It’s Time to Speak Out Against The “Mormon Boycott” (at American Thinker, with a related post here) has been selected as a First Place Winner at Watcher of Weasels. I think this means I am not a weasel, but whatever, a win is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2008 3 Comments
December 10, 2008 was the “Day Without A Gay” boycott. This foolish boycott was a reaction to California Prop. 8, which enshrined in the California state constitution the traditional definition of marriage. The essence of the boycott, which was modeled on the failed May 1,...
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