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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 9 Comments

There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil - Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?:In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 4 Comments

One of the difficulties of adhering to constitutional federalism is that liberals always, always want to use conservative acknowledgement of any acceptable role for the federal government as an excuse to require federal government control of just about everything. The slope is very slippery, indeed.In...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 14 Comments

Gringomask.com appears to be a real, not spoof, website in protest against the Arizona immigration bill. (h/t)The site proposes that as a protest people wear a mask featuring a blond-haired white person's face (image right). According to the website:The objective of this action is to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 4 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Joan Walsh at Salon.com sought to atone for her prior use of the race card, in this observation (h/t James Taranto) in this column, Asking the wrong question about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments

I'm glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul's libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses.Where I come down on the issue is that the history...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 10 Comments

In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court held that it violated the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments to imprison someone with no possibility of parole based upon crimes, other than homicide, committed while a juvenile.These lines (at page 40 of the pdf.) in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 7 Comments

and American Jews have not done a good job at forcing Israelis to create the Middle Eastern version of the Upper West Side, or something like that, from Peter Beinart and the usual suspects.You know what, they really don't care what you think. And they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2010 6 Comments

He just can't wrap his mind around it. So he sinks ever deeper into his belief that we fail to understand.But in fact, it is he who fails to understand:Is “Left” becoming a four-letter word? You’d think so lately with each day bringing more news...

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 despite a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2010 17 Comments

It must be scary to be who they are.One day, we are totalitarian control freaks who want to post police at every ice cream shop to check for papers.The next day, we are pseudo-anarchists who want no government at all.Today, apparently, we are anarchists in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 3 Comments

I have the answer to the question of why we get conservative rock stars nominated for the Supreme Court, while they get groupies.Here it is:So keep banging the spoon on the high chair.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:The Great Deception of 2008And Now We Stereotype Blacks As LiberalsFollow me...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 9 Comments

The NY Times laments that liberals cannot manage to get a full-throttled liberal nominee on the Court to do battle with Antonin Scalia (emphasis mine): The selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the nation’s 112th justice extends a quarter-century pattern in which Republican...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2010 16 Comments

The left-wing blogosphere hates Elena Kagan. Really. The venom percolating up from the depths of the nutroots is getting pretty toxic.For the most part, the right-wing blogosphere is sitting back and enjoying how people like Glenn Greenwald are tripping all over themselves to attack Kagan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2010 12 Comments

Strange. I'm not sure I support Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, assuming she is the nominee, but I'm already finding myself having to defend her.If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions from the left-wing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 10 Comments

The Onion recently released a spoof of a mythical Supreme Court ruling upholding the right to freedom of speech, replete with a fauxto of Ruth Bader Ginsburg flipping a double bird. As with many productions by The Onion, there was a glancing plausibility to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 17 Comments

One of the arguments raised against the Arizona immigration law (in addition to it being the modern incarnation of Nazism) was that states had no authority under the U.S. Constitution to conduct their own immigration policies.So I presume we will hear howls of constitutional outrage...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2010 19 Comments

There is a fundamental disconnect in the arguments being mounted against the Arizona immigration law. What many of the critics want to say, but do not, is that they view all immigration laws as inherently racist because most illegal immigrants are non-white.There are some legitimate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 21 Comments

It is over-the-top and out-of-control when it comes to the Arizona immigration bill recently signed. Not the law itself, but the reaction.Linda Greenhouse's opinion piece in The NY Times epitomizes the absurd rhetoric (emphasis mine):I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.Because I’m not going...

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