tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-7413 2012-05-26T10:13:02-04:00 Following The Arc From "Yes We Can" To "You Sit Thinking, 'You Know, Maybe. I Don't Know.' " TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766cf1674970b 2012-05-26T10:13:02-04:00 2012-05-26T11:55:11-04:00 Tom Maguire The Boston Globe does an exhaustive review of Harvard University's push for diversity in the 90's, with special emphasis on Elizabeth Warren's place in that push. As the only Native American female on the law school faculty and the faculty... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e20168ebcd0d75970c 2012-05-25T21:38:53-04:00 2012-05-25T21:38:53-04:00 Tom Maguire Up to now Barack Obama's youth has been a cipher. The future President,Nobel Prize Winner and world-changer was not a student council president club president, or much of a presence at all in high school, Occidental, or Columbia. But now... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e20168ebccf227970c 2012-05-25T21:18:34-04:00 2012-05-25T21:18:34-04:00 Tom Maguire Patterico has a stunning post about the extreme lengths to which a group of nutjobs will go to harass and intimidate their opponents. Of course, Brett Kimberlin was convicted of planting bombs back in the 1980s, so maybe one man's... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016305d30564970d 2012-05-25T10:03:10-04:00 2012-05-25T10:31:44-04:00 Tom Maguire Both sides have motions to seal some of the evidence (State, defense). The Orlando Sentinel includes this amusing detail about the state's motion: Also mentioned are "tests" performed by police on Zimmerman that de la Rionda argues may not be... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766c6f6b5970b 2012-05-25T09:39:47-04:00 2012-05-25T10:09:49-04:00 Tom Maguire Elizabeth Warren, the favorite of right wing comics everywhere, is back on the warpath: Elizabeth Warren says she knows she is part Native American 'because my mother told me so' George Will noted this: Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016305cf2888970d 2012-05-24T21:49:50-04:00 2012-05-24T21:49:50-04:00 Tom Maguire Overheard: "Who is more famous, Rush Limbaugh or that other guy?". Hmm. I put my money on Rush. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e20168ebc05269970c 2012-05-24T08:58:58-04:00 2012-05-24T08:58:58-04:00 Tom Maguire ABC News surprises us with a eulogy to Obama's era of hope and change. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e20168ebb9aab9970c 2012-05-23T13:37:45-04:00 2012-05-23T18:15:13-04:00 Tom Maguire George Zimmerman will presumably claim self-defense in the Tryvon Martin shooting, and (presumably) will also claims that Martin attacked him. An important factoid in evaluating the plausibility of this claim would be George Zimmermn's size. However, I have a concern... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016305c30c25970d 2012-05-23T10:55:30-04:00 2012-05-23T14:36:25-04:00 Tom Maguire The Orlando Sentinel has an interesting article about the evolution of witness testimony in the Zimmerman case. Their key insight is on 'John', who saw Martin on top beating Zimmerman, who was calling for help and later waffled on who... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766b6e8c8970b 2012-05-23T10:28:21-04:00 2012-05-23T10:31:32-04:00 Tom Maguire Glenn links to this bit of health news from Theodore Dalrymple at PJ Media. It is meant to be funny, and is, but it has still summoned forth my Inner Pedant, always lurking beneath the surface of this seemingly fun-loving... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766b6a4fb970b 2012-05-23T09:51:44-04:00 2012-05-23T09:52:08-04:00 Tom Maguire Judicial Watch discovers that Obama 2012 is leaking secrets to Hollywood in order to faciltate the movie about Obama's execution of Osama. In a bit of a cross-marketing fail the movie's release date has been moved back to December 2012,... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e20168ebafe467970c 2012-05-22T12:09:09-04:00 2012-05-22T13:19:47-04:00 Tom Maguire The Hill describes the wave of Federal lawsuits filed by Catholic organizations against the ObamaCare "free" contraceptive coverage. Dem-backed law may be downfall of Obama birth control mandate The biggest legal threat to the White House’s birth control mandate could... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766a7a419970b 2012-05-21T15:36:08-04:00 2012-05-21T15:36:08-04:00 Tom Maguire If a tree falls in the forest but no one from the liberal media is there to blame Bush, then how did the Yankees do last night? Sorry. The WaPo has a laugh-out-loud attempt to evaluate the Zimmerman 911 'Scream'... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2aa69e2016766a7384b970b 2012-05-21T14:10:49-04:00 2012-05-21T14:10:49-04:00 Tom Maguire The NY Times reports, for the umpty-bumpth time, about alarming statistics on national obesity. Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in...