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Stockholm Syndrome: Outgoing Cornell President Expresses "Gratitude" To Anti-Israel Encampment Protesters

Daniel Perry Gets Full Pardon From Texas Governor Abbott

VIDEO: Who Is Funding Anti-Israel Campus Protests?

California’s mental gun law

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 15, 2013 17 Comments

I have been covering California's hate-late relationship with gun rights. The reports have included the fact that gun control groups have target our state for enhanced activism, and that San Diego's Chief of Police has stated that Americans can be disarmed in a generation. Now, it seems...

Ready to unload

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2013 30 Comments

I should have gone away these few days of the CPAC conference in a deep sea diving bell. CPAC has been a disappointing spectacle to watch from afar, in more than one way. I can't tell you what it's done for others, but for me it's been a real downer,...

Politico’s next act: Real News Organization or Gawker (no offense to Gawker)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2013 18 Comments

Politico's latest cheap shot at Sarah Palin...

Offended is not an answer, except that it almost always is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2013 23 Comments

Ann Coulter makes that point about DiFi's response to Ted Cruz, which we featured yesterday. I agree in theory, because Offended should not be an acceptable answer. But, Offended is accepted as an answer virtually everywhere, particularly on campuses, unless the person offended is a...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/15/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 15, 2013 7 Comments

1) Why is this debate a virtue? Yesterday, I wrote about Joseph Levine's outrageous article at the New York Times arguing that Israel is not a legitimate secular democratic state. At the Daily Beast, Ralph Seliger writes: I think it's odd that we should still be arguing the...

Lawyers Say Biden's College Vote-Collecting Scheme Likely Illegal

Jewish Student at Reed College Struck in the Head by Rock Thrown Through Her Dorm Room Window

Nashville Hotel Drops Pro-Israel Conference After Pressure Campaign From Activists

Iowa Governor Signs Bill Banning DEI Policies at Public Institutions

Prestigious Law Firm Ramps Up Vetting of New Hires Following Anti-Israel Protests

Anti-Israel Protesters Clash With Police at UC-Irvine After Swarming Campus Buildings

Explanation … because it’s still Massachusetts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2013 11 Comments

A bit of an odd combination. Alternative post title: Gun-lover Still Loves Gun-grabber Because It's Still Massachusetts. Sent to me via Twitter by Jack Gately, who took this photo of a door in Boston. Be sure to check out Jack's blog, GatelyWire.com, for Massachusetts...

Hundreds of CPAC Attendees #StandWithRand

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 14, 2013 43 Comments

At College Insurrection we reported that, in honor of Rand Paul’s historic filibuster, the head of the Hillsdale College Republicans wanted CPAC attendees standing during the senator's convention speech. It looks like Ryan Bolyard got his wish, as hundred of students chose to #StandWithRand. Josiah Ryan contributed...

The “reality-based community” meets Fiscal Reality on entitlements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 11 Comments

So tell me again, which party is being ripped apart by internal divisions?...

Three years ago today — Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 4 Comments

Today is the third anniversary of the death of Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto in Afghanistan, as noted here before: Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto Promises a Marine Widow Cannot Bear to Hear Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, Remembered Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, March 14, 2010 His wife’s original blog post, I Will Always...

Ted Cruz versus DiFi on 2nd Amendment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 48 Comments

Via Mediaite: On Thursday, during a committee hearing in the U.S. Senate on gun control legislation, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) engaged in a heated exchange over the constitutionality of her support for stricter gun control laws. In posing a question regarding...

It’s always around this time when I start to think, maybe I should have gone …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 10 Comments

to CPAC, or whatever the conference happens to be. Of course, if I went I might have been chased down the hallway by gaggles of college kids seeking to get their photos taken with me, either that, or I would have stood alone in a corner...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/14/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 14, 2013 3 Comments

The Ranting of Levine Last week the New York Times published an essay by a philosophy professor, James Levine On Questioning the Jewish State. I won't quote from the essay, but here are some of the responses. Elder of Ziyon argues: In fact, if you follow his bizarre...

Repeat after me again and again: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 19 Comments

I just saw a movie review in The Washington Post from last fall regarding Hating Breitbart. I haven't seen the film (but Anne did, her review is here), so I can't comment on the review itself, although it does bear an unmistakably snide tone to it, as...