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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 14 Comments
Wow, just wow. Republican Mark Reed is running for Congress in California’s 30th District against Democratic Congressmen Brad Sherman and Howard Berman in a new district resulting from redistricting.  Reed is a conservative, Tea Party backer. Reed is making a big deal about the Obama administration’s policy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2011 11 Comments
Yesterday I noted the accusation by an anti-Israeli LGBT activist writing in The New York Times that Israel engages in “pinkwashing,” the promotion of its not-gay bashing, not-gay stoning, not-gay hating policies to cover up its suppression of Palestinians. How long before Israel is accused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2011 15 Comments
Every time one thinks it is impossible for Israel haters to come out with a more bizarre justification for hating Israel, someone comes up with an even more bizarre justification. Today’s exhibit is City University of New York Professor Sara Schulman, who is feverishly anti-Israeli...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2011 20 Comments
Crain’s New York has an article detailing how Occupy Wall Street and union protesters are taking the fight to the personal lives of executives who oppose them by disrupting their ability to go to restaurants and other day-to-day activities. As the Occupy Wall Street movement...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 47 Comments
I did not watch Herman Cain on the various news shows, but Memeorandum is relatively quiet, so I assume there were no major gotchas. Definitely get the sense the Occupy protests are getting uglier, not better.  The cream is not rising to the top, it’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 25 Comments
Why the Palestinians thought that a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S. was the way to go is inexplicable.  Once again, they overplayed their hand. Did they really buy into Obama’s rhetoric from 2009 in Cairo, or earlier this year about the Arab Spring?  In part,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2011 45 Comments
If you want a good measure of how deeply the collective bargaining bill in Wisconsin has disrupted public sector unions, there is no better example than the Wisconsins Education Association Council (WEAC). Last month WEAC announced that it was laying off 40% of its staff. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 20 Comments
Love this move: Republicans have decided they’re not going to give a  rebuttal to President Obama’s jobs speech later this week, a decision House  Democratic Leader Nancy  Pelosi took as a high affront to the White  House. At least three GOP lawmakers also have announced  they’re...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2011 19 Comments
This is classic (h/t BlazingCatFur). A member of the anti-Israel Boycott Divest Sanction movement (we’ve seen their moonbat tactics before) confronted Muslim shop owners in London demanding that they not sell Israeli products.  The shop owners were not intimidated and demanded to know why she wasn’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2011 6 Comments
An Israeli start-up company has invented the technology to charge cell phones, kitchen appliances, and even the Chevy Volt, wirelessly  (via Israel Matzav): Israel Matzav has more of the story. I can’t wait until the idiot moonbats who want to boycott Israeli products need their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2011 15 Comments
King & Spalding dumped the House of Representatives as a client in DOMA litigation after coming under threatened protests and boycotts by groups opposed to DOMA.  A key aspect of the threats was that protesters not only would protest King & Spalding, but would go after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2011 10 Comments
Wonkette has removed its latest post mocking Trig Palin, and instead posted a snide comment about how it really meant to mock Sarah Palin and her followers (emphasis mine): “A post on this page satirizing Sarah Palin using her baby as a political prop was very...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2011 25 Comments
Ken Layne, the owner and lead editor of Wonkette, is in damage control mode over the article by recent college grad Jack Stuef ripping into and mocking Trig Palin. Dave Weigel (h/t Instapundit) received this e-mail from Layne: I have four kids myself and I wouldn’t want...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2011 5 Comments
TaxProf has the details on a campaign to prevent a conservative scholar from becoming Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School:  And now a public controversy has erupted over one of its dean search finalists:  Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 24 Comments
Judge Maryann Sumi has issued this morning a two-page ruling saying the budget repair bill is not in effect.  Via JSOnline: A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, continuing the turmoil...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2011 37 Comments
There has been a lot of talk lately in the right-blogosphere about the importance of the upcoming Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, which is next week.  National unions and leftist groups have poured millions into attacking current Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, including a malicious...
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