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"Why Aren't White Students Invited?" - Ithaca City School District Practices Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Fakala? Have Republicans Finally Come Up With A Brand For Kamala?

New York City: Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed on Street by Assailant Yelling "Free Palestine"

Salon.com: Look, White Caucasian Boston Bombing Squirrels!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 34 Comments

No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a "white American" was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp. I'm...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/22/2013 – The Syrian red line and Israeli innovation

Posted by David Gerstman on April 22, 2013 4 Comments

1) The red line? Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians. Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against own people; military awaits final orders, US officials tell @nbcnews nbcnews.to/RCH3Cz— Breaking News (@BreakingNews)...

Dubious Thatcher-Palin story fixed by @TheFix

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 5 Comments

On April 9, 2013, at 9:37 a.m., I ran a post .@TheFix and @FixSean run dubious Thatcher/Palin story, fail to correct about the failure of The Fix blog at The Washington Post, run by Chris Cillizza, to correct a commonly told story about Margaret Thatcher supposedly refusing to...

Branco Cartoon – Hard Boiled

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 22, 2013 10 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 21, 2013 29 Comments

A comprehensive primer on the bombers, their families, and their histories....

U. Georgia Suspends Six Anti-Israel Protestors for the Fall 2024 Semester

Critical Race Theory Organizers Already Planning Their Return to Classrooms

American Association of University Professors Embrace Anti-Israel BDS Movement

Arrest Warrants Issued After Antisemitic Vandalism Left on Jewish Frat House at Temple University

Rutgers Prof Who Said Trump Shooting Should ‘Inspire Others’ Returning to Campus This Fall

Anti-Israel Students at University of Chicago Receive Diplomas Withheld Due to Protests

There oughta be an award for this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 24 Comments

Maybe the David Sirota Award? "xaxnar" diarist at Daily Kos, April 16, 2013, The Right Wing Media Is Nervous: Charles P. Pierce noted today that the conservative media wing nuts are freaking out over anything or anyone that suggests what happened in Boston at the Marathon just...

Would Seals and Crofts be allowed to sing Unborn Child on campus?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 12 Comments

As frequently reported at College Insurrection, pro-life students on campus regularly are accosted by faculty and other students, their displays torn down, their speakers shouted-down, and their requests to be treated as any other student group denied. (language warning) I wonder if Seals and Crofts would be...

“Not Even At Step 1” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 1 Comment

Not really into that Coxexist stuff on campus: Kangaroo courts for men on campus U. Buffalo Prof in profanity-laced tirade against pro-life students Pro-Life Display Vandalized at Slippery Rock University Chapel at Georgetown Vandalized USC student on the prof who called Republicans ‘stupid’ and ‘racist’ But they've taken the first step,...

Politically correct epistemic closure counterattacks Boston Marathon bombing reality

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 46 Comments

In other words, it’s not them, it’s us....

Strangest “reportedly” true actually true Boston Marathon Bombing fact

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 33 Comments

Surely this could not be actually true. At best "reportedly" true? https://twitter.com/lamblock/status/325390139868205057 But alas, it was: Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack 19.04.2013 / 21:27 As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a...

Which church would that be?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 21 Comments

From Janet: Sending you a photo of bumper stickers. I saw this car parked next to a Unitarian church in Boston. : ) ...

The One who got away, and other random tweets

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 14 Comments

Some random tweets I bookmarked this past week. In no particular order. The One who got away: My artist rendering of what the dude would look like without the backward baseball cap. twitter.com/ExJon/status/3…— Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) April 18, 2013 You've lost Mother Jones ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Masters of the English language)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 39 Comments

This all is making my head hurt. A couple of weeks ago we lost Illegal Immigrants. Now we're losing the Master Bedroom. Homebuilders scrap 'master bedroom' because of racist, gender-biased connotations: The “master suite” is being phased out — not from our homes, but from our lexicon. A survey of...

Students react to Boston Marathon Bombing (Updates added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 3 Comments

From College Insurrection: MIT community recalls officer Sean Collier, shot by Boston bombing suspect Emerson College Students United After Boston Marathon Bombing Missouri State Student: What We Know About Boston Springfield College Paper Recounts Horror of Boston Marathon Bombing The Northwestern Chronicle Reacts to the Boston Marathon Bombing Emory student decries...

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Phoned Uncle Hours Before His Death

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 20, 2013 15 Comments

A few hours before he would be shot and killed by law enforcement, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called an uncle with whom he had not spoken in about two years. During that call, he asked his uncle for forgiveness. From USA Today (via the...

Cops may have played the media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 27 Comments

The NY Post and other media outlets are being raked over the coals for releasing a photo of alleged suspects which turned out to be wrong, as I discussed. It turns out the cops may have been playing the media deliberately to give the real suspects...

Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 51 Comments

Most Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes you safer: A Washington Post-ABC News poll — not a Rasmussen or some Rove outfit, but the Post and an alphabet network — finds that by a wide margin, more Americans believe that having a...