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VIRTUAL EVENT: China’s Troubling Funding Influence in Higher Education

Get Ready for the Islamist Summer In American Cities, Fed By A Sense of Impunity From Consequences

"the only real tolerated form of antisemitism is anti-Zionism"

Buy up and run what you can, close down what you can’t

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2012 26 Comments

Prof. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, writing in The NY Post, suggests that Republican billionaires and money people use some of their dollars to buy up women's magazines and websites, keep almost everything the same, except get rid of the anti-Republican content: Mitt Romney and the GOP lost,...

Branco Cartoon – 2012 A.F. Branco Christmas

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 13, 2012 3 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 ...

Politico poll showing “plurality support” for gay marriage also shows majority opposition

Posted by 0387erp on December 13, 2012 12 Comments

Politico creates the narrative it wants from unhelpful numbers...

The racial slurs the MSM doesn’t want to cover

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2012 28 Comments

Union protesters called hot dog vendor "Uncle Tom" and "N*gger" but you won't hear about it in the mainstream media...

Did you know it wasn’t the business of Western democratic governments to “accommodate” capitalism?

Posted by Joel Engel on December 13, 2012 19 Comments

In the United Kingdom, Google has come under fire for lowering its tax bill by legally rerouting nearly $10 billion to Bermuda. Google chairman Eric Schmidt was quick to defend his company and its strategies. “We pay lots of taxes; we pay them in the legally...

Berkeley Unified School District Task Force Recommends Reparations for Slavery

Hezbullah Official Wants to 'Invest' in Anti-Israel Movement on Western College Campuses

Columbia University Places Three Administrators on Leave Over Antisemitic Text Messages

University in the UK Awarded Taxpayer Funds to Decolonize 'White-Centricity' in English Folk Music

Condoleezza Rice Makes a Brilliant Case for School Choice

Scholar Argues That Children Need ‘Liberation’ From Their Parents

It’s not a trick question

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2012 3 Comments

What comes after a trillion? For Obama, it's another trillion, and another, and ...

Which blue state gets the 2012 Darwin Award? (Reader Poll)(Results — California wins by a landslide!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 32 Comments

I'm still learning things about the Internet. One of those things is the "Darwin Award." It came to my attention through this post at Israel Maztzav, And we have a Darwin Award winner! In an earlier post, I reported that a 'Palestinian' had been shot and killed...

The popular will in Egypt will be done

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 8 Comments

The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies having pushed through a draft Constitution which, according to the opposition, tramples the rights of non-Islamists, and fails to protect civil liberties and women, left the opposition in a bind. The drafting of a new Constitution relied on good faith by...

Poll backs up The Christmas Strategy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 6 Comments

I told you I wouldn't stop writing about The Christmas Strategy. A new poll backs me up that the public will go along with a strategy which places Democratic sacred cows on the carving board, NBC/WSJ poll: Two-thirds support balanced deficit deal: As the Obama White House...

I wouldn’t want to belong to an “international community” that would have me as a member

Posted by Joel Engel on December 12, 2012 11 Comments

The word community has been devalued. Once upon a time it meant something specifically geographic—not unlike neighborhood—as in, “We live in a really nice little community.” Then in the '60s community was adopted as a synonym for people. So instead of saying “black people believe,” you...

Dear @SpeakerBoehner, have you heard of The Christmas Strategy?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 11 Comments

I am going to keep repeating The Christmas Strategy until someone in Republican circles listens: I say call his bluff. If a deal which tackles deficits from both revenue and spending can be reached this month, great. If not, pass a 90 day extension of current tax...

The Epistemic Closure of progressives to their violent union thugs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 33 Comments

There are multiple videos shot by different people, including a local news station, showing union members in Lansing yesterday engaged in violent actions against Steven Crowder and others at the Americans For Prosperity tent. The videos were shot from several angles and sides of the tent. The union members are...

John Boehner leads Debtcracker ballet for Christmas

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 12, 2012 9 Comments

I personally will never forget the horrendous 2009 Christmas Eve Senate vote for Obamacare. Around the same time, the "stimulus" legislation that eventually became the American Recovery and Investment Act was being bandied about the halls of Congress with tons of hyper-partisan theater. Now, it seems the...

We’ve only just begun

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2012 3 Comments

We hoped the error of the nation's ways would be seen. But alas, it only has just begun. From Amy, spotted pre-election in Aurora, CO: ...

Most chilling Michigan video — “There are people under there, oh my God”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 36 Comments

The numerous videos of the union mob action in Michigan today show an assault on Steven Crowder, but it actually was potentially much worse as the mob collapsed the tent even as bystanders screamed that there were people inside. Here's the descripion from the news station...

Norks shoot long range rocket

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 2 Comments

North Korea launches rocket: North Korea has launched a long-range rocket in defiance of condemnation by critics who believe it is seeking to develop technology that will enable it to deliver a nuclear warhead, South Korean TV channel YTN reported. YTN said the rocket was launched from...

Wanted P(r)o(te)ster

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 53 Comments

The person in this video, whose (mug) shot is below, is seen on the now-famous video throwing punches at Steven Crowder. How long before he is identified? And will he be prosecuted? Language Warning for video: (added) This video shows the attack from a reverse angle and gives...