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Why have universities become the least free places when they should be the most free?

Scenes of Communist Flags, Riots, and Violent Clashes With DHS During 'No Kings' Protests

Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap

Left and right: Too far apart for tolerance?

Posted by New Neo on August 14, 2013 51 Comments

Has politics become so divisive that a new intolerance keeps left and right from connecting emotionally? Research purports to show that left and right are that different, according to this post at NPR titled For Democrats And Republicans, It's Happily (N)ever After: Political preferences seem to come...

Egypt: Military attacks Muslim Brotherhood protesters, Muslim Brotherhood attacks Christians

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2013 12 Comments

NOTE - This post will be updated throughout the day, with "breaking" news at the top, other updates below, and the live streams at the bottom: UPDATE 8/14/2013 at 10:10am ET: A month-long state of emergency has been declared. https://twitter.com/AP/status/367644219391102978 https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/367675743289245696 https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/367683057022562306 Overnight the Egyptian military attacked Muslim Brotherhood protesters encamped in Cairo. There are reports of dozens, maybe hundreds dead. (Live video and Twitter feeds at bottom of post.) https://twitter.com/ABC/status/367754493636521984

In turn, Muslim Brotherhood supporters around the country have turned on the Christian population, including burning churches. https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/367586159116816384 https://twitter.com/EIPR/status/367592909517770753 https://twitter.com/RanyaKhalifa/status/367573102609195010 https://twitter.com/DaliaEzzat_/statuses/367838401317195776

Going steady

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2013 9 Comments

From Pete, spotted outside Tacoma, WA: Prof. Jacobson, Thought you would enjoy the photo and I read you on a daily basis. Thanks for all your work. I can't tell what the sticker next to the "Steady Hand" says: ...

Palestinians welcome home released murderers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 15 Comments

Mahmoud Abbas joined others in welcoming home heroic axe murderers of elderly people sitting on benches, knife and pruning shear murderers of hikers and bus passengers, and other assorted miscreants. It's not easy to watch these celebrations, but it is necessary to do so in order to understand the culture of incitement that pervades Palestinian society and is the main obstacle to peace: MORE VIDEOS HERE https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/367422567767748608 https://twitter.com/Rushdibbc/status/367399847965376512 Part of the celebration was for Palestinians to throw rocks:

ZDNet interview with Silent Circle CEO offers different perspective on product shutdown

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 13, 2013 11 Comments

Earlier this afternoon in a post that featured an interview with Lavabit's owner on his abrupt decision to shutdown his encrypted email service, I also mentioned the shutdown of Silent Circle's secure email service, Silent Mail. As good luck in timing would have it, ZDNet has...

Faculty Book Club Selection at Portland State U. Highlights ‘Awful Scourge of White People’

UPenn Hires Assistant Medical Director for Gender and Sexual Health

Harvard Trying to Borrow $675 Million Through Tax-Exempt Bonds

Political Donations From Faculty at U. Idaho Favor Democrats by Margin of 419 to 1

Family of College Student Killed by Illegal Alien in Chicago Speaks Out at Vigil

Hundreds of College DEI Officers Attend Conference to Complain About ‘Chaos’ Caused by Trump

Ted and Marco eligibility – I can’t put this off any longer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 150 Comments

The analysis of the Natural Born Citizen clause in the Constitution as it applies to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. I promised to do this long ago, and did the research with the assistance of a former student, but couldn't bring myself to actually write it...

Lavabit owner’s cryptic interview on decision to shutter encrypted email service

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 13, 2013 19 Comments

Late last week, we reported that Ladar Levison, the founder of encrypted email service provider Lavabit, abruptly shut down his service without notice, leaving only a cryptic message for users and visitors to the company’s website as to the reasons behind his decision. While Levison explained...

(Dis)respect for our immigration laws tells us a lot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 20 Comments

It was widely reported earlier this week that there was a mass coaching of Mexicans as to which phrases to use at the border to gain them temporary asylum, including lodging: A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in...

D.C. Circuit: Obama can’t ignore legislation just because he doesn’t like the policy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 28 Comments

Yucca Mountain ruling has important implications for Obamacare implementation and other refusals of the Obama administration to comply with congressional mandates....

More evidence Hillary is running

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 28 Comments

She's already playing the race card. To add on top of the war-on-women card. https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/367280328022302720 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy That, and Anthony Weiner's slip of the tongue (I know, not the imagery you want in the morning), Anthony Weiner: Huma Will...

Palestinian Terrorism: The Most Successful Diplomatic Initiative in History

Posted by David Gerstman on August 13, 2013 10 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 08/13/2013 - Terrorism is Diplomacy by Other Means...

Hard times require drastic measures

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 5 Comments

From Stephen: From South-Central Pennsylvania, where this is understood as a fanciful jest, not a terroristic threat...

Video killed the rodeo clown

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 60 Comments

A Rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair wore an Obama mask. The crowd did not want the clown to win. This video killed the rodeo clown's career: Now the clown has been fired ... permanently after an outcry from Democratic politicians. https://twitter.com/LynnEva0806805/statuses/366991513969885185

You know what needs to be done: https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/367066740447920128 Jim Hoft has some background on how clowns were treated when they made fun of Bush. But this ain't Bush. In other Obama Mask news: https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366992153047617536 https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366993874058637312

New York’s stop-and-frisk and the illusion of law by statistics

Posted by New Neo on August 12, 2013 38 Comments

How many crime victims must be sacrificed at the alter of fuzzy math?...

Chilling 911 call audio opens second week of Fort Hood shooting trial

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 12, 2013 15 Comments

The fifth day in the trial of accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan opened Monday with the testimony of a nurse who called 911 on the day of the shooting. Shemeka Hairston cried as the prosecution played the 911 recording for the courtroom. https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/366951607046377473 From the local Killeen...

The Liberty Amendments – Mark Levin’s Constitutional Sequester

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 39 Comments

Mark Levin's new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring The American Republic is out, and it proposes an ambitious set of Amendments to the Constitution: I undertook this project not because I believe the Constitution, as originally structured, is outdated and outmoded, thereby requiring modernization through amendments,...

Things you probably missed this weekend

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 9 Comments

Almost certainly. There couldn't possibly be any other reason why they didn't show her the $38,000 pocketbook: Seems like a case of Oprah upset at not being recognized as Oprah so … racist! Have you hugged your College Insurrection bloggers today? “Thank You Leslie and Aleister” Week at College Insurrection Woe...