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Kamala's Condescending and Mocking Debate Faces May Be What Voters Remember

Tim Walz's Discriminatory Minnesota Teachers Of Color Scholarship Challenged By Equal Protection Project

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He might be arrogant and thin-skinned, but he’s our arrogant and thin-skinned candidate

Posted by David Gerstman on February 28, 2013 11 Comments

In their initial endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008, the editors of the Washington Post concluded: Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident...

War of the Sequestration Infographics

Posted by Anne Segal on February 28, 2013 8 Comments

There's a surplus of pretty successful infographics attempting to sway audiences as to the meaning--and import--of sequestration cuts.

From political groups like Third Way and The Democratic Daily to a Quaker organization and the Cato Institute, there are common themes running through many of the depictions that attempt to both explain the term "sequestration," while also selling a viewpoint. The infographics from those opposed to sequestration focus on what, and even more strikingly, who, will be impacted according to their points-of-view. On the other hand, an infographic from the Cato Institute focused on placing the cut amounts in perspective--and using humor.

For example, National Parks Service presents perceived impact on jobs, and converts figures into "equivalents," saying "proposed cuts to NPS budget would be equivalent to close 200 of the smallest park units":

The Third Way attempts to reach out across the aisle to Tea Party activists, choosing issues they think are interesting to them and applying their left-leaning ideological POV:

Democratic Daily goes straight for the jugular, illustrating the impact on children:

#StandWithWoodward

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 57 Comments

Via Business Insider: Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to attack President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the...

RIP Van Cliburn

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 9 Comments

Van Cliburn died today at age 78. The name lives on with the piano competition named after him. RIP, tall Texan: Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer, publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone...

Wow, is there hope for Britain yet? Oxford votes down BDS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

We've delved the depths of the despicable Boycott Divest Sanction movement against Israel. We are dealing with real bottom-feeders who have worked their ways onto campuses almost everywhere, supported by vicious people like George Galloway. Given the sordid history of Leftist-Islamist anti-Israel campus agitation, particularly in Britain,...

U. North Carolina System Cutting Millions of Dollars and Multiple Positions From DEI Programs

AAUP's Embrace of Israel Boycotts Turning 'Academic Guardians to Political Operatives'

Crucifix and Virgin Mary Statue Vandalized at Georgetown University

Anti-Israel Students and Prof Sue UC-Santa Cruz Over Being Banned From Campus

Anti-Israel Activists March at Harvard Saying 'Long Live the Intifada'

Christian Seminary in California Hosts Workshops on ‘Queering the Vote’

Hollywood steps in its own pile; hilarity ensues

Posted by Joel Engel on February 27, 2013 17 Comments

Hollywood is apparently unhappy with Seth MacFarlane’s hosting of the Oscars on Sunday night. So says the New York Times: Post-Oscar Monday found the movie capital coming to grips with a 3-hour-35- minute ceremony that climbed in the ratings but at its best seemed to hide...

Goodbye, Human Events in print

Posted by Anne Segal on February 27, 2013 5 Comments

A former colleague of mine from Regnery Publishing wrote today to say that our old sister company, Human Events, had shuttered its print edition today. While the digital version will continue, much of the staff will have to seek employment elsewhere, and it may be...

“You broke the health care system, you own it” Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 19 Comments

This is mightly rich. Donna Brazile was a big defender of Obamacare, despite warnings that it would drive up insurance rates: Guess who's now complaining about private insurance rates rising? You broke it, you own it. As for the rest of us, we're the victim, not you. What's on...

We have officially reached 3rd world political status with release of ICE prisoners

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 21 Comments

How low will this administration go on the sequester political jockeying? This low, As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released: The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house them because...

Jon Stewart vs. Sequester Hysteria

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 12 Comments

Jon Stewart mocks the sequester hysteria. Yes, he targets Republicans towards the end. But it's still pretty funny.(h/t my wife) I'm not a Jon Stewart fan, but he wouldn't be popular if he wasn't tuned in. Does his cavalier approach to the sequester reflect a popular skepticism...

Republicans nominate reformer ex-con running in #IL02 district famous for electing pre-cons

Posted by Anne Segal on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

It's one Man versus The Chicago-Bloomberg Machine in #IL02...

Mideast Media Sampler 02/27/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

1) It's been more than 20 years Jonathan Tobin writes in The Day the War on America Began: Exactly 20 years ago on this date, a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center took the lives of six people and injured more than a thousand others. The...

Paul McKinley hangs onto lead to challenge Bloomberg-Chicago Machine candidate in #IL02 general election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 2 Comments

It looks like Paul McKinley, who Legal Insurrection has been writing about for months, will pull out a victory in the Republican primary in the 2nd Congressional District in Illinois, for the seat vacated by Jesse Jackson, Jr. The Democratic nominee is Robin Kelly, the insider...

Tip Line Tuesday night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 23 Comments

Forgive me for forsaking the Tip Line. It's not that I don't read it, I do. I just have neglected promoting items: donb -- Paul Rahe in Obama’s Next Move: "The name of the game for our President is to force a crisis that will eventuate in...

Far left organizes to save fired Soledad O’Brien’s job at CNN

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 15 Comments

It's clear who made up Soledad O'Brien's niche audience base at her former employer CNN now that "Left Action" has issued an alert and created a petition to save their number one heroine in the media. Left Action, a "network of 1,000,000 progressive," must not...

The consequences of John Kerry

Posted by Joel Engel on February 26, 2013 20 Comments

Secretary of State John Kerry (go ahead, just try to type those words) is making his first overseas trip since confirmation as a member of the president’s cabinet—and as fourth, dear lord, in the line of succession. Via Heritage: Secretary of State John Kerry’s first overseas...

Rahm gives 100% support to anti-gun Chicago police chief

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 10 Comments

In a press conference Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago expressed his "100 percent" support for Police Chief Garry McCarthy, who recently referred to law-abiding gun owners as agents of political corruption and has been under attack by the black caucus of aldermen for his inability...