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February 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2011 12 Comments

The wilful ignorance of the Obama administration to the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists in Egypt is astounding.  Just look what happened in Gaza where the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas was elected to office and proceeded to drown out all other voices,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 12, 2011 3 Comments

Okay, okay, maybe I woke up on a better side of the bed today, but CPAC is looking up. Andrew Breitbart rocked the first session, giving accounts of the crazed leftists he sees regularly. After him, Haley Barbour made a great speech. Here's the takeaway:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2011 0 Comments

Wired links to a Symantec paper on the Stuxnet virus, showing that there were three waves (image right) of infection targeting five key organizations:Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 11, 2011 4 Comments

For the past four years, I've looked to CPAC for a fix of liberty-oriented resources and ideas. Growing up in a bastion of liberalism wasn't always easy, but CPAC has a way of making a conservative feel at ease. Last year, I had a particularly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 13 Comments

Last June, in the midst of the "Gaza Flotilla" in which leftists joined Islamists against Israel, I asked Can Israel Survive A Second Obama Term?:This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel.Leftists who, among other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 8 Comments

After yesterday's speech by Hosni Mubarek, I noted: "Things will be interesting. I can't imagine the situation will stay stable until September."Well I was right, although I didn't predict Mubarek would resign the next day.But it has happened, and now the military controls Egypt.I repeat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 10 Comments

I posted earlier today about a study by Cornell Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci finding that career and other choices, not discrimination, are the best explanations for the currently low levels of female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.Profs. Williams and Ceci have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 5 Comments

Two Cornell University researchers conducted a study to determine whether the significant underrepresentation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) was the result of sex discrimination.The results of the research are summarized in the Cornell Chronicle:"It's an incendiary topic in academia -- the pervasive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 2 Comments

Thanks to reader Angela for the link to GOP Valentine's Card.Here's my early Valentine's Day card for my readers:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 18 Comments

I have received several complaints in the past couple of weeks about readers having problems commenting.  And if several people took the time to reach out to me, there likely are many more.Since a couple of the commenters have started posting solutions in other posts,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 13 Comments

You get the empty room. (H/T Conor Rogers at Spark by The Politicizer):"Former Senator Rick Santorum ripped into Sarah Palin earlier this week for choosing supposed financial gain over attending CPAC. A friend sends over this (iPhone) photo of an embarrassingly empty Santorum speech. Perhaps...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 8 Comments

While there was much speculation that Hosni Mubarek would resign tonight, he just announced that he was staying for the transition through September elections.There will be more on this later, but the highlights of his speech were to lash out at foreign interference ("we are...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 3 Comments

K. McCaffrey -- My friend Jonathan, a gov major at Cornell, is keeping a blog while studying abroad in Syria. One of the few American students studying in the area (and definitely the most sympathetic to our causes), his writing has given me excellent insight...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 5 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- I am super jealous of everyone who will be at CPAC today. I have to wait until tomorrow to attend (a cost-benefit analysis of the cost of college per credit hour leaves me no choice), but those who are there today will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 4 Comments

I have posted here many times about my quirky home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, particularly the union-controlled legislature, deficit-ridden municipalities, and Democratic hegemony:Rhode Island Dem Launches "Let's Scare Grandma" Tour Rhode Island Becoming A Sanctuary State Unions Rescued In Rhode IslandIn RI,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 2 Comments

Not sure this will help Mitch Daniels' putative campaign:For real, or the campaign equivalent of Stuxnet?--------------------------------------------Related Post:So Tell Me About Mitch DanielsFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 5 Comments

PolitiFact, started at the St. Petersburg Times and then franchised out to other newspapers including The Providence Journal, has been the subject of critique here before, Media Bias In Action: Providence Journal Politicizes PolitiFact:In these latest examples the circumstances are virtually identical -- both candidates voted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 17 Comments

The New York Times reports on the inconsistency of how various government agencies count the races:The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins — a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent — as “Hispanic.” But the National Center...

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