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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 11 Comments

I've figured it out. Nature blogging! So you see, I walked over to Ithaca Falls, about a 10 minute walk from my house, with my friend to help him get over his blogger burnout problems. (Man, this is easy)...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 10 Comments

Instapundit turned 12 years old this week, and received appropriate accolades. It's not an overstatement to say that Prof. Reynolds has helped foster and keep up the spirits of the conservative blogosphere, including Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection. Which brings me to a related topic, blogger burnout. Legal Insurrection...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 23 Comments

We've all heard of the problems faced on Twitter with the #TwitterGulag resulting from false claims of harassment and/or spam. It's also a problem on Facebook, as detailed by Ruthie Blum (sister of John Podhoretz) at The New York Observer. Blum speaks of the problem faced by pro-Israel writers on Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 6 Comments

We might be hearing more about it. Instead, the pipeline project has been lost in the flood of Obama scandals and diversions. Obama scoffs at the project only creating 50 permanent jobs -- which is another "fact" just pulled out of his ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 2 Comments
Leslie Eastman, who writes for Legal Insurrection and has her own blog, Temple of Mut, and Aleister from American Glob, both help run College Insurrection, including gathering the stories we aggregate there. In preparing this week's College Insurrection "Week" post, I realized once again the great job Leslie and Aleister do at finding interesting stories.  My thanks to them for their efforts. Never give up: Cause or effect? Bryan went to Auburn: Extremism in the defense of free speech is no vice: I think Berkeley Profs are even greater threats: He gropes, therefore he is:

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Activists Protest After Medical Center at NYU Halts Transgender Care for Minors

Jewish Prof Sues Stevens Institute of Technology Alleging Discrimination

'Lack of Balance': Catholic U. of America Denies Pro-Israel Student Group’s Speakers

Virginia Democrats Pass Bill Requiring Schools to Teach Jan. 6 as an 'Insurrection'

Trump Says 'Whole Educational System' Could Go Out of Business Unless College Sports Issue is Fixed

Louisiana Bill Would Allow Students and Faculty at Public Colleges to Carry Concealed Weapons on Campus

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2013 9 Comments

Too. From Gary: Seen in a parking lot in Marietta, GA. Normally a solid Red State area, perhaps showing some real battle fatigue. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 5 Comments

make sure you have this Twitchy article bookmarked, More Huffpo malfeasance: Byron York forces ‘update’ on Santorum gym shower comments The short version is that Rick Santorum made a comment about a conservative student group being denied locker room / shower facilities at a YMCA because of their politics, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 28 Comments
Obama is holding a press conference at 3 p.m. Eastern today before he leave on an extended vacation. Expectations are low.  He is expected to announce new NSA oversight measures. [press conference over - video embed removed] [Twitter feed removed] Obama prepared remarks on his intelligence community reforms are here. Some reactions: https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/365912473955598336 https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/365912496336416768 https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/365913857752969218

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 31 Comments

In February and March we focused on the Romeike homeschooling deportation case, DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling: The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 0 Comments

Tom Cotton, running for Senate to unseat Mark Pryor in Arkansas, held a blogger telephone conference today. I sat in on it, breaking my usual policy of sitting in a hermetically sealed room with the drapes drawn and the lights out avoiding all human contact. All someone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 19 Comments

On this date in 2001, Hamas bombed the Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. 15 people were killed, including 7 children. The bombing was celebrated as a great victory for Palestinians, including by Palestinian university students. Ahlam Tamimi, the women who led the suicide bomber to the location, was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 39 Comments

From Foxfier: at a family gathering in central Oregon I noticed this car parked at our hotel and couldn’t believe the walking cliche; while I snapped a couple of pictures, a man walked up and said “hey, at least let me wash it before you take...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 14 Comments

Some good stuff in the Tip Line (which is more of a reader open forum than just for "tips"). H/t to JCClarke for the link I used in this tweet today: https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/365561974257508352 And this tip from Bruno Lesky shows how the fight against progressive propaganda is taking...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 08, 2013 27 Comments

Well, this was a bit of mysterious news today.  Apparently, the owner of Lavabit - the same email service reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden to contact human rights groups last month - has decided to shut down its operations in order to avoid...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 44 Comments

That seems to be how this thing is going to develop. Private citizen Hillary is just going about her private business, helping establish the pantsuit as cultural icon and just chilling. The rebranding thing is really hard work. All the while, hapless fall-guy John Kerry travels the...

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