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'Malmö Syndrome' at Columbia: Leftist-Islamist Reign of Terror Intensifies With Open War Cries

Google Employee Anti-Israel Insurrection Should Be A Wake Up Call To Ditch Woke Corporate Culture

Racially Discriminatory Illinois Public High School Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project

I think I’ll watch Hannity tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 44 Comments

Because a tape is being released on Hannity tonight. And based on this tease by Drudge, it should be big. Guesses? One thing for sure, Democrats will scream Racism! for showing a tape of Obama saying words which are not helpful to Obama. Maybe that will result in a...

Scott Brown “Bains” Elizabeth Warren

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 20 Comments

Elizabeth Warren is running hard left in her rhetoric, but the reality is she served big companies in her extensive private legal practice and got paid big, big dollars for it. At the first debate, Brown scored big points on Warren's representation of Travelers, for which...

What Kind of Person Thinks Free Speech is Too Costly?

Posted by Joel Engel on October 02, 2012 33 Comments

Thanks to the inimitable David Burge (AKA Iowahawk), I came upon a piece written by a New York University student titled—no kidding—“Have we taken free speech too far?” The news hook for Muslim student Faria Mardhani's not-so-rhetorical question is the story of the Egyptian activist (and...

Hating Breitbart Trailer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 12 Comments

From the company which produced 2016: Obama's America. Opening in theaters on October 12, 2012. Just in time to help get people motivated. (h/t Gateway Pundit) From the archives: Andrew Breitbart dead A personal note on the death of Andrew Breitbart, . Weinergate retrospective — the lying liars and their lies about...

Obama may win by diminished military vote in key states

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 48 Comments

Where are all the public officials who should be speaking up for the troops?...

Will Jewish Democrats Finally Wake Up?

Stanford Will Not Investigate Mathematics Prof Accused of 'Reckless Disregard for Accuracy'

Former DEI Chief at Providence College Files Discrimination Charge Against School

New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Pulls Financial Support From Columbia Over Antisemitic Protests

MIT is Latest School to Have Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel 'Encampment' on Campus

DEI Official at UCLA School of Medicine Accused of Plagiarism

Utah-04 is in Love

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 14 Comments

I'm not getting overly confident, but this is encouraging, Latest poll: Mia Love pulls ahead of Jim Matheson in 4th District race: Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love has overcome a double-digit deficit to overtake Rep. Jim Mathesonin Utah's hotly contested 4th Congressional District, the latest Deseret...

Absolutely Certain

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 25 Comments

The video below, Absolutely Uncertain (h/t @SGLawrence) already has over 800,000 views on YouTube. I understand Irina's point, the trust in Obama has been shaken, and now she is uncertain about Obama's commitment to Israel. I'm not uncertain. I am certain that in a second term, freed...

Insubordination

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 24 Comments

will be punished severely. I think the building inspector just found several violations. From commenter 9th District Neighbor, who took this photo in Glenview, IL (Cook County): I snapped this photo today—the sign is very recent, it probably went up over the weekend. North suburban Cook County is...

Elizabeth Warren issues incomplete list of cases

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 36 Comments

Unwittingly also demonstrates her extensive practice of law from her Massachusetts office...

Brown-Warren post-debate analysis

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 29 Comments

Quick takes on the debate which just ended. End Result -- As with most of these things, people will see what they want. I'd say while Brown won hands down the first debate, this one was more even. Brown won big on Warren's personal problems, which took...

Brown-Warren Debate LIVE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 7 Comments

This is the second debate, being held at U. Mass. Lowell, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. There should be live feeds on MassLive.com, uml.edu, bostonherald.com, and CBS 3 in Springfield . It may also be on CSPAN. David Gregory is the moderator - ugh. Let me guess how...

Is tonight the night Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem goes mainstream? (Update – No)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 13 Comments

Despite a Drudge link, huge linkage everywhere in the conservative blogosphere, and defensiveness in the left-legal blogosphere, Elizabeth Warren's law license problem has not broken into the mainstream media. Other than some passing references, the Boston press has ignored it, even as debates raged on the...

Branco Cartoon – Bump in the Road

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 01, 2012 7 Comments

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Slow walking ballots to the military, fast walking guns to Mexico and free cell phones to Cleveland

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 27 Comments

Military absentee ballot requests down 92% in key battleground state Virginia...

How “You Didn’t Build That” will come to our public schools

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 01, 2012 11 Comments

Is this a parody video or a glimpse of America circa 2015 if Obama is reelected? Either way, its pretty funny (and scary). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZQvSCGaJI Reminder: The above video was based on true events...

Come on, give us some HEADLINES about MITTMENTUM

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 36 Comments

Don't expect it, even though there is good polling news today for Romney-Ryan, as detailed at Hot Air: Welcome to October! Today must be Poll Day, as media groups try to determine the lay of the land ahead of the first debate on Wednesday. The new...

Elizabeth Warren 2005 – Assists on paper regarding unauthorized practice of law

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 43 Comments

In 2005, then University of Chicago Law School Assistant Professor Lea Krivinskas (now at Loyola Univ. - Chicago Law), wrote a paper for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, titled 'Don't File!': Rehabilitating Unauthorized Practice of Law-Based Policies in the Credit Counseling Industry (free download here). Prof. Krivinskas was...