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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2013 1 Comment
It’s grim out there: A third of Millennials regret going to college New Poll Sheds Light on Grim Reality for College Graduates New report says overdue student loans have hit all time high Just bare it: UC Boulder student has naked freak out after eating...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2013 19 Comments
Newer readers may not know about the Tip Line.  It’s not just a Tip Line, it just is named Tip Line.  It’s a place, um, to leave tips, but it’s also a place where readers can have a conversation on topics not really covered by...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2013 29 Comments
As a citizen activist, I remember how thrilled we were with the results of the 2010 election, in which the Republicans made enormous gains that were suppose to protect the free market. Fast forward to 2013.  The Senate has just approved the “Marketplace Fairness Act“,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2013 8 Comments
Pretty much the only mention we made about the Massachusetts Senate special election to fill the seat vacated by John Kerry was a spotlight on February 12 about Gabriel Gomez, The Great Republican Hope (in Massachusetts)? Gomez won the primary yesterday pretty handily, and will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 29 Comments
You may recall my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals: … I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever,...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 27, 2013 8 Comments
Last year at liberal conference Netroots, Darcy Burner, the woman who introduced Elizabeth Warren, reminded the audience of the cultural power the left has at its fingertips. She said to the audience (start at 16:50): That is cultural change. Because television has given us —...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2013 58 Comments
Just thought you’d be interested in some news about me. At a Cornell Law School faculty vote on Wednesday I was promoted to full Clinical Professor of Law.  It’s not tenure, which is a Cornell University designation not available to clinical faculty, but it complies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2013 16 Comments
Milton CVS robbed of painkillers, amphetamines: Police are looking for the man who robbed the CVS on Bassett Street Saturday  afternoon. A man carrying what was described as a silver folding knife robbed the store  of about 1,200 Percocet pills and 500 amphetamines at about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 28 Comments
Shocker? She’s been getting stranger by the day, including her claim that running against Mitch McConnell was like being raped. Democrats were going to swoon over Judd, and try to turn her into the next Elizabeth Warren. Who will they swoon around now, or are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2013 24 Comments
Fantasy, via an author in the final issue of The Boston Phoenix: Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority, to show up at last Thursday’s hearing on indexing the minimum wage to...

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 13, 2013 14 Comments
Team Breitbart: We’re going to smack Politico across the face and expose Buzzfeed: Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro took a more bellicose tone, declaring that Breitbart News writers would challenge not only the existing mainstream media for their biased coverage, but also the newer online outlets. “You’ll...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 4 Comments
“Buy when everyone else is selling.” From Warren Buffett on down, it’s a time tested approach to investing. It doesn’t mean purchase anything that comes along, or overpay, but it’s a contrarian approach to the madness of markets which tend to drive valuations to extremes...
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