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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2013 23 Comments
The game plays out every time there is a high-profile act of criminal violence.  There is an immediate media and left-blogsphere search to tie the shooter to a “right-wing” entity … usually the Tea Party movement. Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have created...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2013 5 Comments
We have videos: “Great Vagina Man” shouts down pro-life speaker at U. Waterloo (Video) Student suspended for complaining about “Stomp on Jesus” Prof (Video) Video – A Brief History of Censorship on Campus (Video) Prager U.: The President Who Shrank Government (Video) Oregon law professor loses job after attack...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 15 Comments
It’s not like you didn’t see this coming.  Those inane and made-for-YouTube moments, lacking in substance and confusing the gullible media, are the pre-publicity. Anyone familiar with Elizabeth Warren’s history knows that she knows how to turn the “rigged” schtick into a buck. (Off topic, there’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 17 Comments
The primary goal of ElizabethWarrenWiki.org was to serve as a resource for people who don’t have the time to search dozens of websites and blogs. So when I stumbled on this at HuffPo the other day, it was one of those moments. The accusation was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2013 2 Comments
One man took a stand, and libertarianism broke out: Young Libertarians Defend Rand Paul From Establishment GOP Cal State Student: Give Me Liberty Or Death By Drones Knox College Student — Rand Paul is a Constitutional Realist Are Millennials going to become the great Libertarian...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 17 Comments
Officer, he was about 6’2″, brown hair, blue eyes, refused to Coexist, told me to make his day. From commenter Henry Hawkins: Hah! The Perfesser might like this. It’s a different sort of ‘coexist’ bumper sticker I stumbled across on eBay. Could be a case...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 05, 2013 57 Comments
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez died today after fighting cancer for two years. Vice President Maduro’s statement: Today, the 5th of March, after participating in the meeting of the council of ministers, we came here to the military hospital to follow the sequence of our comandante president’s...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 05, 2013 15 Comments
Two recent articles provided explanations as to why Mitt Romney failed to win the presidency. In The GOP and the City Edward Glaeser writes: After the presidential election in November, New York Times exit polls found that Republican candidate Mitt Romney had received only 29...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 04, 2013 27 Comments
Back in the early 2000’s, the Enron scandal lead to California’s rolling blackouts.  As a result, as an environmental health and safety specialist, I began including information on handing power outages into company safety manuals. Now, thanks to “Green Energy”, it looks like I am...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 16 Comments
You don’t get more “progressive” than the Political Animal column at Washington Monthly, which has seen such luminaries as Steve Benen (now Rachel Maddow’s blogger) grace its pages. In a column yesterday, Samuel Knight took Elizabeth Warren to task for voting in favor of corporate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 32 Comments
Thomas K. Brown, a banking industry analyst and investor, writing at BankStocks.com, makes a point similar to what I made in my post, Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery, that Warren’s Banking Committee YouTube performance was pure political grandstanding without substance or legitimate regulatory purpose. As with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 103 Comments
The nature of the hostility directed at me has changed over the years. In 2008-2010, it was mostly Obama supporters upset that someone who taught at an Ivy League law school would dissent.  I guess they figured their love letters weren’t working, so that has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 39 Comments
Gabriel Gomez looks like an interesting Republican candidate for the John Kerry seat. Via MassLive: According to a biography on his campaign website, Gomez was born in Los Angeles to Colombian immigrants. An introductory video features Gomez first introducing himself in Spanish, before switching to...
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