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Harris Once Again Struggles With Basic Economic Questions

'Important Truth': Hillary Defends Calling Trump Supporters 'Deplorables'

U. Arkansas-Walmart Joint BIPOC-Only Mentor Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Whither small conservative blogs?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 73 Comments

The inevitable post-election lull seems like a good time to sits and think. And one of the things I sits and thinks about is the future of small conservative blogs. There seems to be a corporate consolidation of blogs on the right and the left. Already liberals are...

Post-election Breitbarting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 44 Comments

Andrew Marcus, producer of Hating Breitbart, After Election 2012: WWBD -- What Would Breitbart Do? Everything that Andrew predicted in my film, Hating Breitbart, played out in real-time during the election right before our eyes. From Candy Crowley interrupting and taking Obama's side in the...

Learning to love the fiscal cliff after the Santa Claus election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 48 Comments

Here's a description of the "fiscal cliff": So just what is this "fiscal cliff" that has the financial markets rattled and economists and policymakers alike in a tizzy over the potential for sending the economy into another tailspin? It's a one-two punch of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and...

Ann Coulter speech at Fordham cancelled after Univ. President attacks College Republicans

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

This is a follow up to the "Shock the System" post yesterday. As mentioned in that post, College Republicans at Fordham were attacked by the Fordham University President for inviting Ann Coulter to speak. Now the College Republicans have rescinded the invitation. Details at College Insurrection, College...

I already live

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 15 Comments

in the country you fear America is becoming. Spotted in Ithaca. ...

Jewish Advocacy Group Files Antisemitism Complaint Against Haverford College

Faculty Members at Arizona State U. Condemn ‘White Ownership’ of Shakespeare

Boise State U. Women's Volleyball Team Forfeits Game Against Opposing Team With Male Player

Report Suggests 'Faculty for Justice in Palestine' has Crucial Role in Rise of Campus Antisemitism

Cornell First-Year Enrollment of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans Drops Following Affirmative Action Ban

Law Professors Lead the Assault on the United States Constitution

Philosophy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 60 Comments

I've received some great emails from readers, a mix of sadness and fight. You have to understand my philosophy. You may have noticed in the run up to the election, I refused to make a prediction based on the polls or criticisms of the polls. Because it...

Saturday Night Card Game (There was no Ole Miss race riot after Obama’s victory)

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 10, 2012 15 Comments

Ole Miss slow-walks release of evidence as to students shouting racial epithets, but clearly the crowd did not do so...

Latest update on Allen West recount fight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 17 Comments

There have been lots of rumors swirling that Allen West was ahead by a couple hundred votes, or that there was substantial "overvoting" which affected the race. None of those rumors appear to be correct. The Shark Tank blog in Florida has the latest information: There’s a...

This day in infamy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 4 Comments

Today in 1975, @un's darkest moment - adoption of #Zionism = #Racism resl - bit.ly/odPgM5. Since revoked in law...

A hard rain will wash away Democrats’ pyrrhic victory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 72 Comments

Another great analysis by Caroline Glick (h/t Linda in Tennessee): The American spirit has been overwhelmed by the European model of social democracy at home and appeasement and treachery abroad. But all the dependency champions who celebrated on Tuesday night cannot stop the coming storm. The greatest...

“Shock the System” week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 27 Comments

I am more convinced than ever that a shock to the higher-ed system is needed. Universities have turned into political training grounds for can't-do left-wing professors and administrators who use campuses as laboratories for churning out foot soldiers for the dependency state: Professor Denies Stalin Murdered Millions Florida Professor Pens Book...

Harvard bows to pressure to remove “Arab” food from Israeli buffet in dining hall

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 23 Comments

Lebanese grad student wages war against Israeli food imperialism...

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2012 6 Comments

Have you seen the video of Obama supporters celebrating? From Alex, spotted in Charlottesville, VA: ...

Friday night cheer-me-up advice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2012 54 Comments

From April 29, 2009, after Arlen Specter switched parties and the Dems gained their SuperMajority in the Senate (pending Al Franken election recount), and the political world looked a lot more grim than right now ...

Branco Cartoon – Foundering Principles

Posted by A.F. Branco on November 09, 2012 16 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 Facebook page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

Gen. Petraeus resigns due to affair — what other post-election shoes to drop now?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2012 73 Comments

This is unreal. Companies hold off on disclosing layoffs. Iran shoots at U.S. drone and DOD doesn't disclose for six days. What other shoes are going to drop now that Obama has been reelected? Maybe this was one of the reasons no one can seem to get straight answers...

The United States: All Town, No Country

Posted by Joel Engel on November 09, 2012 43 Comments

Via Drudge, this is why coastal elites call it "flyover country." Jefferson hated cities. He thought they spread disease and bad ideas, and believed the perfect republic was composed of educated farmers who by night read Homer in the original Greek. In these disunited states, United Airlines'...