December 10, 2025

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: “Our Job is to Teach the Children, Not be the Children:” UVA lawprof Xiao Wang exposes immature and unprofessional behavior by his colleagues.

Professor Xiao Wang, director of University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Clinic, litigated the case of Ames v. Ohio Youth Services. The thrust of the case was quite simple, and intuitively appealing: Heterosexual employees alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation have the same burdens as homosexual employees alleging such discrimination. Such symmetry is built into our antidiscrimination laws, which is why the laws ban discrimination based on “race” or “sex” or “sexual orientation” and not “against people of color” or “women” or “people who identify as LQBTQ.” Not surprisingly, the Court reasserted this principle in a unanimous opinion.

While the case was pending, however, Wang and his students were subjected to a campaign of harassment by some of his faculty colleagues and other students. You can watch a video of him recounted what transpired, and inspired the title of this blog post, here.

Good for him for calling them out. With a quibble that law students are not children. They may act like them sometimes, but no more often than a good chunk of the faculty, these days.

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HAMAS CAPTURES HOBOKEN! Palestinian Flag-Raising In Hoboken Draws Ire From Mayor-Elect Jabbour.

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken’s next mayor has blasted the current city administration for raising the Palestinian flag in front of City Hall without input from other officials.

As the conflict in Gaza continues, a number of events related to Israel and Palestine have raised controversy around the region.

As Mayor Ravi Bhalla finishes his last full month in office, Mayor-Elect Emily Jabbour blasted his decision to raise the flag on Tuesday.

“Today, we are seeing first-hand the repercussions of decisions made without a larger community conversation, and without any engagement with myself or my council colleagues,” Jabbour said in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon. (See the post below.)

Local resident Audrey Truschke said in response, “The Palestinian flag raising was organized by an informal group of Hoboken residents from diverse backgrounds. City Hall selected the date.

“Mayor-elect Jabbour’s arm-jerk reaction against a basic show of solidarity with a beleaguered people shows that she is out of touch with her constituents, who requested this flag raising. It also suggests that she lacks empathy. I hope she displays better judgment as mayor than she has as mayor-elect in this situation.”

What is an “arm-jerk reaction?” Is she implying something this?

If only there was a way for mayors to avoid this sort of unnecessary controversy. If only:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE: HUD terminates Biden-era guidance, claiming it unfairly favors Afghans. “HUD Secretary Scott Turner argues the Biden-era guidelines prioritized nearly 200,000 Afghan refugees who were admitted following the 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan by encouraging landlords and property owners to forgo credit checks, occupancy limitations, and engage in targeted marketing toward Afghans.”

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

SOLAR IS A WASTE OF SPACE: Young farmer’s crusade to protect vanishing farmland pits her against solar developers in New York.

The neighbor assured her that he wasn’t going to sell his land to solar developers, but Fasulo said the developers are aggressive and many farmers do end up selling. Between 2017 and 2024, the U.S. saw a decline of 24 million acres of farmland, a trend that worries Fasulo.

The average age of farmers is rising, and few young people aren’t pursuing careers in agriculture, making it attractive to sell off unused farmland to developers.

Farmland is being sold for other types of development than renewable energy. But renewable energy takes up large amounts of land, and unlike other types of energy, rural land is an attractive location to site wind and solar projects.

Nuclear power works 24/7, and unlike solar or wind, has a tiny footprint.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

“TRUST THE SCIENCE,” THEY SAID. “IT’S PEER-REVIEWED,” THEY ASSURED ME:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

2026 PREVIEW:

Turnout was almost comically low. But almost every indication is that the GOP gets slaughtered next year, absent some getting stuff done in DC.

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Can We Retro Impeach Biden for Ketanji Brown Jackson? “When playing by the Dems rules, Jackson has two built-in shields of protection. If I criticize her, I’m a racist, a misogynist, or both. I prefer racogynist, thank you.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

NEW U.S. NUKES ARE COMING: Now, hot off the presses comes news the Department of Energy will kickstart funding for construction of 10 new nuclear power plants, according to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright in an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon.

Wright told WFB’s Thomas Catenacci that “we want things built by and risk capital coming from the private marketplace, and most everything we’re doing is dominantly going to be funded by private capitalBut the government smothered the nuclear industry for 40-plus years. We’ve got to get it back up on its feet again.”

To do so, Wright said the Department of Energy would back well-funded equity investments with low-interest government loans:

“We are going to use our loan program office at the Department of Energy for credit-worthy hyperscalers that are putting equity capital in front of us. We’re going to back that up with low-interest loans. We’ll supply it to maybe the first 10 reactors that get built. That’ll incentivize people to move fast.”

(VIP Digital-Age FYI: “Hot off the presses” refers to the days long, long ago of what is now known, if it is known at all, as “Old-School Journalism” when a reporter would get a VIP news story before his competitors and his editors rushed it into print. Ok, by “print,” I mean in the old days before the Internet, people actually paid for what were called “newspapers” that were printed on giant rolling ink applicators known as “presses.” Since it was an important story, the presses would be run at high speed, meaning they heated up more quickly. Thus, a big story was called “hot off the presses.”)

Posted at 8:57 am by Mark Tapscott

SBA BUCKS TO ‘MOM-AND-POP’ STORES LIKE WALMART: The Senate’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee will get an earful today about waste, fraud and mismanagement at the Small Business Administration (SBA), including hundreds of millions meant for Main Street shops going instead to Fortune 500 Giants like Walmart.

Posted at 8:50 am by Mark Tapscott

INSURRECTION: DHS Nabs N.J. Twins in Plot to Shoot ICE Agents ‘on Sight.’

Federal authorities arrested twin brothers in Absecon, New Jersey, after alleged threats against Department of Homeland Security officials and calls on social media to “shoot ICE on sight,” according to a press release emailed by DHS to Newsmax on Tuesday.

DHS said it worked with the Absecon Police Department’s SWAT team to execute search and arrest warrants for U.S. citizens Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores.

According to DHS, Emilio Roman-Flores is charged with unlawful possession of an assault weapon, possession of prohibited weapons, conspiracy to make terroristic threats, criminal coercion, threats, and cyber harassment.

Another non-shocking outcome of keeping the LITERALLY NAZIS dial turned up to 11, 24/7.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

SHOWING PROPER RESPECT (CONT’D):

Posted at 8:28 am by Glenn Reynolds

INDEED:

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green