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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

There is a lesson here, it's that we cannot allow science to become religion, and must always question scientific authority particularly when it is used for political purposes. From The NY Times (emphasis mine): Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2011 11 Comments

I have posted numerous times before about the case of Lawrence Connell, the Widener Law School Professor who was placed on one-year unpaid leave and forced to undergo a psychiatric examination as a condition of return. The sanctions imposed by Dean Linda Ammons were so controversial that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 3 Comments

Via Chicago Tribune: An investigator for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s human rights agency got a slap on the wrist for forwarding an e-mail before last November’s election that contended the Republican Party had been hijacked by “dangerous, radical hate mongers called the ‘Tea Party.'" The e-mail, sent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2011 11 Comments

I posted on Saturday about Alumni Resignations at Widener Law School In Wake of Connell Case. I noted that Widener had confirmed that "[a] member of the Board of Overseers for the School of Law and a member of the School of Law Campaign Subcommittee have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2011 5 Comments

It's close to over, as prosecutors have moved to dismiss the indictment finding the alleged victim to be truth-challenged: When they moved Monday to drop the biggest case on  their docket, the woman was portrayed as its fatal weakness. She "has not been  truthful on matters great...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2011 10 Comments

Lots doing in the world. The end is near for Qaddafi, or not, who knows:  "Libyan rebels said they were less than 20 miles from  Muammar al-Qaddafi's main stronghold of Tripoli on Sunday, a day after  opposition fighters launched their first attack on the city.  The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2011 9 Comments

As you know, I have been following the case of Widener Law School Professor Lawrence Connell for several months. Connell claimed that he was singled out by two students for false accusations of racism and sexism, and that the Widener administration backed the students without bothering with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2011 10 Comments

You probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Victory Day, formerly known as VJ Day, formerly known as Victory Over Japan Day, no longer is celebrated anywhere in the U.S. except in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.  It is celebrated the second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2011 24 Comments

The New York Times and New York Magazine have the long knives out for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. But tell me, what precisely is it the DA's office did wrong in the Strauss-Kahn case? There was a quick indictment and serious terms to home confinement based upon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2011 19 Comments

Dominick Strauss-Kahn was released today on his own personal recognizance, as detailed in The NY Times: In a letter sent to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers and filed with Justice Michael J. Obus on Friday, prosecutors outlined some of what they had discovered about Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s accuser, poking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 36 Comments

If you noticed, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for the alleged sexual assault on a maid at a hotel in New York, I didn't join in, almost alone in the blogosphere. Something didn't seem right. The story was too neat, and too couched in political correctness....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2011 6 Comments

We approach the end of the light bulb as we know it, unless the revolution succeeds.  Even so, it's doubtful the lost jobs will return, so the Mexican incandescent light bulb smuggling routes will open soon. Nonetheless,  I thought this would be a good time to publish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2011 7 Comments

Two metaphors for where this country is heading under Obama:Low-flush toilets cause stink in San Francisco: "San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink. Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2011 15 Comments

The video below is getting a fair amount of attention for the comparison of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler, and the hypocrisy of senior Democratic politicians on the subject of Hitler comparisons and overblown rhetoric.But have you noticed how many of the union...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 21 Comments

There is a controversy at Widener Law School regarding calls for the dismissal of a law professor who, in trying to get the students to understand the law, used a hypothetical example in criminal law class in which the professor killed the Dean.As argued by law...

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