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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2012 24 Comments
As with many good intentions, my pledge to address the “demography is destiny” political nonsense has fallen by the wayside, consumed by intervening events.  Consider this just a touch on the issue. It’s not that broadening the appeal doesn’t matter, it’s just that demographic arguments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 20 Comments
The much demonized kulaks (a/k/a the top 5%, 2%, 0r 1% depending upon the speech) were the first to rise up against Obama. Now the kulaks have been joined by the common peasantry, via NPR: As Mitt Romney and President Obama get ready for their second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2012 40 Comments
I previously wrote about how Elizabeth Warren elopement story falls apart.  That “story” is Warren’s claim that she always believed she was Native American because her parents said they had to elope because her father’s white family would not accept her mother because her mother was part Cherokee and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2012 33 Comments
Sent with the subject line “Will you defend me?” Professor, Ah, the American Community Survey. Have you received it lately? This is the second time in 2 years for me. Maybe something to do with Colorado. The faq states the survey states the benefits to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2012 22 Comments
A three judge panel in D.C. has thrown out all Texas redistricing maps which were subject to challenge by the DOJ.  It’s a monster 154-page decision, embedded below, so it will take time to figure out what was done to which districts. Because Texas is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2012 47 Comments
Elizabeth Warren is riding high, raising tens of millions of dollars and serving as the designated warm-up speaker for Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in early September.  But she’s still an ethnic fraud who misappropriated Native American heritage as her own for professional purposes. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2012 16 Comments
The question which has not been asked yet by the media, but needs to be. Elizabeth Warren has no documentation that she is Cherokee, Delaware or any other Native American tribe.  The initial claim that Warren was 1/32 Cherokee was withdrawn by the New England Historic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2012 25 Comments
A reader [see update] sent me the link to the article below which examines the “box checker” phenomenon in college and law school admissions.  I think the same analysis applies with regard to professional advancement in fields where there is enormous pressure to diversify, such as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2012 5 Comments
It may seem counter-intuitive, but Upstate New York (the NY flyover country) is a key to holding the House, and will form a core of Operation Counterweight.  In 2010, Republicans picked up several seats upstate; redistricting has caused the loss of one upstate seat (and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2012 55 Comments
On April 30, 2012, The Boston Globe broke the story that Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) had located information about a marriage license showing that Elizabeth’s great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees: A record unearthed Monday shows that US...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2012 78 Comments
If you haven’t heard of Ludmya “Mia” B. Love before, you will be hearing a lot more about her.  Mia has the potential to be the next big thing in conservative politics. And you heard about her here first! Mia is the American-born daughter of...

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 15, 2011 18 Comments
The Hispanic Republican Conference of the Texas House of Representatives endorsed Governor Rick Perry for President of the United States – before most anyone had even considered his running. Didn’t anyone tell them they aren’t even supposed to be Republicans? If Texas is any judge,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 09, 2011 15 Comments
Kathleen I’ve written before about how higher education is the next bubble, and I’m glad that Mark Schneider of AIR has done some research on behalf of AEI to really hit the nail on the head. Here are your talking points, folks: average lifetime earnings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2011 14 Comments
It’s not just in the Gulf of Mexico.  Or in West Virginia. There is a concerted effort on the part of the Obama administration to choke the growth of domestic supplies of fossil fuels.  Instead, we have a President obsessed with windmills. Now it’s Alaska (h/t reader...
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