Dov Hikind, a power player in New York City Jewish politics, doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with appearing in black face at a Purim party.
Sheldon Adelson sues Wall Street Journal reporter for libel — and chooses the very free speech oriented Hong Kong courts to do it in.
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?
As I said this morning, the side begging and whining the most about sequester is unquestionably the side that thinks its losing.
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
In a postumous memoir Robert Bork says President Nixon promised him an appointment to the Supreme Court after complying with Nixon’s demand to fire Archibald Cox.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Lindsey Graham was on CNN a bit earlier talking to Wolf Blitzer and says that he’s willing to raise $600 billion in new taxes as part of a so-called ‘grand bargain’.
Here’s a rush transcript …
Graham: We’re the party of fiscal conservatism. Have we put together a plan to cut $20 billion between March and October? No, the house passed a plan, the senate republicans have yet to offer a plan. But the house would have to pass it again. But the House used savings outside of the 2013 window. If you think this is that easy, I challenge any member of Congress to come up with a proposal to cut $85 billion out of the federal budget between March 1st and October 1st.
As you know, there’s nothing more important than your right to carry a firearm.
But what if you were charged with a crime and pled guilty by reason of insanity? Now you can’t legally own a gun a firearm. But what if after your period of criminal insanity, you stop being insane and you need to go around armed again? Is there no recourse for people in this situation? Read More
British Cardinal who resigned over ‘inappropriate acts’ with priests was harsh foe of gay rights, marriage equality.