Ted Cruz’s supporters are busily trying to defend or massage or explain away his claim that when he was at Harvard Law School in the mid-90s there were a dozen members of the faculty “who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.”
The latest contender is Dan McLaughlin, an HLS graduate who writes at RedState. His argument? Read More
As I said this morning, the side begging and whining the most about sequester is unquestionably the side that thinks its losing.
Earlier I mentioned that New York pol Dov Hikind had gotten in trouble for showing up at a Purim party in black face. For those unfamiliar with Jewish holidays, Purim is a bit like Halloween. You dress up in costumes, though the meaning of the Holiday is very different. Just hopefully not wildly offensive ones, especially if you’re an elected official. But now Hikind is digging even deeper. If blackface is a problem, he asks, why isn’t it a problem that people were there dressed up as Arabs?
Sheldon Adelson sues Wall Street Journal reporter for libel — and chooses the very free speech oriented Hong Kong courts to do it in.