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Kamala Picking Walz: "This is doubling down on leftism and doubling down on anti-Israelism"

Van Jones: Harris Appeases 'Anti-Jewish' Democrats by Picking Walz

Race- and Ethnicity-Based Scholarships At Fordham University Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Mideast Media Sampler 03/12/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 12, 2013 3 Comments

Mendacious Max Beyond Iron Dome Max Fisher, the blogger for the Washington Post who publicized the picture of Jihad Mishrawi has now responded to a new United Nations report that concluded that the rocket that killed Mishrawi's son was likely fired by Hamas. Originally he was...

Progressive support for Native Americans — a mile wide and an inch thin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 5 Comments

A recent comment from an old post, Why America Should Care: Tom Joad March 11, 2013 at 6:53 PM I used to support native American causes. I never will again. The one really bright hope we have in the US congress you are attacking over something TOTALLY frivolous....

Sometimes I feel like a soda-less child

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 2 Comments

I’ll have some Freedom Fries with my Super-Sized Big Gulp, with a side order of Slurpee...

If you are reading this, Legal Insurrection is back up and running

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

Maybe. As much as I would like to brag that we are so important we were targeted by top-tier hackers, which would prove that we matter to someone, no such luck. This was a self-inflicted wound. In the process of starting the process of making it...

Thomas Friedman, last of a vanishing breed?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 11, 2013 12 Comments

Luddite with a cause...

Kamala Harris Running Mate Tim Walz Supports Free College for Illegal Aliens

Harvard Student Who Glitter-Bombed School President Faces Felony Charges

Penn State Student Facing Federal Charges Over Alleged Ties to ISIS

Conservative Students Score Legal Victory at Clovis Community College

Anti-Israel Student Protesters Preparing to Start Again in the Fall

Penn State Trustee Suing School to Gain Access to $5 Billion Endowment Records

Saudis go soft — may drop public beheadings because of shortage of swordsmen

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 10 Comments

Via Times of Israel: A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheading as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. The...

Hispolitica launches

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 2 Comments

Hispolitica has been launched by Javier Manjarres, who runs the great Shark Tank blog in Florida, as announced today: I’m proud to announce the re-launch of Hispolitica. Hispolitica brings a balanced journalistic approach to the issues and concerns of Hispanics in light of their increasing influence in the...

Ashley Judd

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 27 Comments

She will be the progressive cause of 2014. She will raise tens of millions of dollars from Hollywood and the netroots. The media will adore her. Snarky ads like this one run the risk of backfiring because they will allow her to play victim while trivializing...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/11/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 11, 2013 5 Comments

1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week's revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who had uncovered...

Conservative Iowa law professor denied new trial in political discrimination case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 16 Comments

The lawsuit by Teresa Wagner against the former Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Law has received a lot of attention, a tortured procedural history (including a prior appeal) and confusing results. In the latest twist, a judge has denied Wagner's motion for a...

Sunday afternoon Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 12 Comments

Been traveling for a couple of days. What did I miss? Updates: Noticed this, by someone who is a blogger at a major online publication's blog section, presumably gets paid for it and gets eyeballs from the publication's readership, and therefore can say things such as: Personally I have...

Al Gore: sale of network to Al Jazeera will “raise the game for television journalism”

Posted by Anne Segal on March 10, 2013 30 Comments

Al Gore was questioned Saturday at the SXSW festival about the sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera, which as the interviewer noted, is owned by Qatar--a government largely funded by oil money. Gore replied that he placed the desire to make a "disruptive move"...

Chinese bureaucrats disloyal to government vehicles, choose Audis instead

Posted by Anne Segal on March 10, 2013 5 Comments

Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...

“It’s not as though the twelve Republicans on this campus pose much of a threat to the tenured bully pulpit”

Posted by 0387erp on March 10, 2013 9 Comments

UW-Madison grad student defends student fees for CPAC attendance...

I don’t know why readers sent me tweets about Bobby Jindal, Elizabeth Warren and Indians

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 17 Comments

Via Twitchy, apparently Bobby Jindal made funny at the Gridiron dinner last night. Several readers sent me links to tweets about how Jindal made some joke about himself, Elizabeth Warren and Indians. I don't get it. Is Bobby Jindal Cherokee too? Is that supposed to be funny,...

Wolfpack Pride

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 4 Comments

Hi Professor, Apologies for not sending more frequently, but this one was too good to pass up. She's proud, but I'm ashamed...

The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 16 Comments

A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...