Posted by William A. Jacobson
on December 10, 20118 Comments
Listen up. I’m sick and tired of your feel good faux-profundity. Does it make you feel good to buy those $4 lattes at Gimme Coffee? Maybe you should put this bumper sticker on the car too. Spotted by an LI student reader in the Collegetown section...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on November 27, 201139 Comments
The only reason, the only reason, the only reason anyone pays any attention to David Frum is that he is the mainstream media’s “useful conservative,” someone who screams about the crazy Republican Party and Tea Party movement. He is worse than a carnival barker, because...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on November 02, 201139 Comments
As you know, I’ve been inching closer towards Newt as the not-Romney. I don’t believe being not-Romney is enough, and of all the remaining candidates, I believe that Newt has the ability to articulate a vision of this country which establishes him as the candidate to...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 25, 201118 Comments
Traveling all day, now in Palm Desert, CA. Because there’s almost no way to get there from central New York, we ended up flying into Orange County airport and driving. Along the way we saw these windfarms — Obama would so proud: From some sneak...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 24, 201141 Comments
Several readers have called my attention to the National Popular Vote movement, through which various states would agree to vote their electors as a block based upon the winner of the national popular vote: Under the U.S. Constitution, the states have exclusive and plenary (complete)...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 21, 201118 Comments
Not long ago The Washington Post was digging up rocks from 30 years ago to find dirt about Rick Perry. Now WaPo is digging up immigration papers from 50 years ago about Marco Rubio’s parents, Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show. The gist of WaPo’s...
Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey
on October 14, 201116 Comments
Today a bunch of college Dems have created an “Occupy Cornell” event. I don’t know what the objective of this is, but it looks like a pretty pathetic state of affairs in “solidarity.” Here’s the transcript of the “occupation” if your eyes are in need...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 13, 201113 Comments
Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing refocusing funding away from liberal arts programs at state universities and colleges, which has various groups accusing Scott of being anti-anthropology, or something like that. Instapundit has the story and lots of reader comments. Let me suggest that Scott is...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 06, 201128 Comments
Whatever Occupy Wall Street once was long ago (i.e., three weeks ago), the revolution has been seized by big labor, particularly public employee unions, as proudly reported yesterday in left-wing Mother Jones magazine, Occupy Wall Street, Powered by Big Labor: In late September, major labor unions mostly...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on October 04, 201132 Comments
The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures. The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job: “I think a...
Posted by Matthew Knee
on September 27, 20118 Comments
As CNN reports, and as Kathleen covered yesterday, the Berkeley campus is up in arms over the Berkeley College Republicans’ Increase Diversity Bake Sale. The publicity stunt, scheduled for today, is intended to show the discrimination inherent in affirmative action by selling cupcakes at different prices...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on September 23, 201156 Comments
My initial reaction last night was that Rick Perry did not have a good night. My reaction this morning is that he had a disastrous night, possibly ending his chances of getting the nomination unless he gets his act together real soon. I say “possibly” because...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on August 05, 201122 Comments
One of the greatest mistakes we make is to confuse academic credentials with leadership. Barack Obama, who guards his transcripts like they’re the equivalent of the formula to Coke, presumably had very good grades at Harvard Law School because he graduated with high honors, a purely grade-based...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on July 30, 201131 Comments
This is the latest in a serieson the use of the race card for political gain: Democrats in South Carolina are angry (h/t Instapundit) that Gov. Nikki Haley checked the box “white” on a voter registration card a decade ago: The South Carolina Democratic Party...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on July 02, 201116 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Friday holding that Michigan Proposal 2, which banned the use of racial and other preferences in a variety of...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 26, 201113 Comments
You can’t make this stuff up. Really, is there anything more pathetic than Americans like Greta Berlin who are participating in the Gaza flotilla, set to sail tomorrow? Six of their boats have been detained in Greece. Berlin, who blames the U.S., has put out a...