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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 5 Comments
Tipping point approaching.  From The NY Times, Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 21 Comments
Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects. Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher education bubble in general, and law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2010 7 Comments
Glenn Reynolds writes in the Knoxville News today about the Journolist, Controversy proves collusion among liberal journalists: Like most email lists, much of the content was profane or sophomoric – like [Eric] Alterman’s reference to Bush supporters as “f***ing Nascar retards,” public radio producer Sarah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 8 Comments
The media has been there (Obamamania), done that (destroyed its credibility and any pretense of objectivity). Now it’s time for “Presidential Scholars” to befool themselves, Professors rank President Obama 15th best president: A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 1 Comment
Talk about spin, the headlines are screaming 69 law school deans endorse Kagan in letter to Senate: The deans of more than one-third of the nation’s law schools have endorsed Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, issuing a public letter that praises her legal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2010 11 Comments
One of my daughters is graduating college today. And she has a job! So one less tuition to pay, and she’s almost off my payroll. It feels like 5 O’clock, all day: ——————————————– Related Posts: Sunday Morning Dance Party Early Sunday Morning In New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 7 Comments
Another “emergency” and pending “catastrophe” is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers’ union contracts: Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama “absolutely supports” a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2010 21 Comments
This attitude has upset some people: (via HotAir via Ace) Christie must be doing something right if people already are trying to boycott him (via TaxProf): Gov. Chris Christie will remain the speaker at Seton Hall University School of Law’s graduation ceremony later this month...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2010 10 Comments
Not Tea Partiers, gun nuts, wingnuts, NASCAR dads and moms, or bitter clingers. Not loony-lefties, nutroots, socialist revolutionaries, or Kos-sacks. No, there is a gathering crowd with a thirst for revenge, who will not be satisfied unless and until we get on the Supreme Court…....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 3 Comments
Phew: We’d heard the former governor actually dated Kagan when they were students at Harvard, but a spokeswoman for Spitzer denied any love connection. “They have been good friends since 1977 — when they were college freshmen. They never dated,” said Spitzer’s rep. Not that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 3 Comments
In the company of Obama supporters, it’s called “inventing” oneself: Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2010 1 Comment
The NY Times ran an article yesterday about the growth of unpaid internships, Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2010 5 Comments
Barack Obama’s insistence that Israel cease all building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, calling such neighborhoods “settlements,” raises an interesting question. Who are the settlers in Jerusalem? A good example of the lack of clarity over Palestinian claims to Jerusalem is found in prominent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2010 10 Comments
Three students have committed suicide on the Cornell campus recently, including two last week, by jumping from bridges over the numerous gorges which run through campus. The mood is somber. We need to do a better job helping students keep life in perspective. We place...
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