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Anti-ICE Church Invaders Chanted Fabricated BLM "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Slogan

Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks

"A lot of people mistake this as a fight to save education. It's not. It's a fight to save the country."

Line-up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 17 Comments

Officer, he was about 6'2", brown hair, blue eyes, refused to Coexist, told me to make his day. From commenter Henry Hawkins: Hah! The Perfesser might like this. It's a different sort of 'coexist' bumper sticker I stumbled across on eBay. Could be a case of mistaken idenity, he's...

Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 53 Comments

Is what greeted me when I walked in the door tonight. And for once, she wasn't talking about me. "What the hell are McCain and Graham doing? I'm disgusted."...

Oberlin pretty good at keeping secret the identities and motives of perps

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 12 Comments

Very strange. Local police are quoted as saying they have identified two students possibly connected to the rash of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay writings on campus, but were uncertain as to their motives. As detailed yesterday, the Oberlin administration is not willing to talk about it, to...

The many and varied Rand Paul filibuster accomplishments

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 37 Comments

In no particular order: Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Republican Guard and hastening their political demise. Exposing, Once Again, the Old Failed Democratic Guard The Guardian: Democrats Shamefully Silent on Obama Administration’s Assertion of Right to Assassinate Americans on U.S. Soil Rand Paul carried out a historic 13-hour filibuster of dronemaster-in-chief...

Shout out to Sen. Ron Wyden

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 07, 2013 19 Comments

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's 12-hour filibuster of John Brennan's nomination yesterday was so outstanding because brought people representing the entire spectrum of political belief together to defend constitutional due process rules. As a Palin Democrat, I would like to make an observation. As I conduct much of...

Federal Judge Shielding Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Activists From Deportation

New Hampshire College Students Divided on Campus Carry Bill

Physicians Raise Concerns About ‘Decolonizing Medicine’ Class at U. Maryland

Arizona School District Suffers Enrollment Loss as Many Parents Choose Charter Schools

CU Boulder Prof Calls U.S. a 'Fascist Authoritarian Regime' in Newsletter

U. Arkansas Rescinds Offer to Law School Dean Over Advocacy for Transgender Athletes

Branco Cartoon – Squeal-Quester

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 07, 2013 5 Comments

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/07/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 07, 2013 6 Comments

Those "apartheid" buses A number of British publications recently featured articles about some new Israeli bus lines devoted to transporting Arab residents of Judea and Samaria into Israel. These publications have outrageously called the buses, "apartheid" buses. Lori Lowenthal Marcus lays out some of the background (and...

Rand Paul found that sliver of principle on which right and left agree

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 34 Comments

Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan yesterday, which went on for over 12 hours, was a phenomenon. He was joined at various times by Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ron Wyden, and late in the night, Tim Scott, Ron Johnson and others. As the screenshots...

The world that liberals believe in exists only on car bumpers

Posted by Joel Engel on March 07, 2013 22 Comments

Every time I see a car with a War is not the answer bumper sticker, I try to catch up and ask the driver, “What’s the question?” Because if the question is, “How many feet in a mile?” then it’s true that the answer is...

SPLC put Rand Paul on 2011 list of “Electoral Extremism”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 18 Comments

Rand Paul is the civil libertarian hero of progressives, libertarians, and all people who care about the government being able to summarily execute an American on American soil who does not pose a threat of imminent substantial violence without due process of law. For the past...

Prisoner X — Further Questions Not Needed?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 10 Comments

This is a follow-up to our posts about Prisoner X. Our resident reader from Down Under s_dog sent me this link to Andrew Bolt's blog, An Israeli tragedy, an Australian silence: Greg Sheridan dismisses conspiracy theories in the Ben Zygier case, following the report released by Foreign...

Oberlin declines to comment on motivations of students behind writings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 19 Comments

There have been numerous reported instances at Oberlin College of writings scrawled on campus using racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay language. That backdrop led to a shut-down of classes and mass gatherings of students when there was a reported sighting of someone in a Klan outfit, which turned...

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul stand tall on civil liberties

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 40 Comments

Two of the Republican Senators most demonized by the liberal media, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, are doing the job liberal politicians and media refuse to do out of loyalty to Obama. From Mediaite: On Tuesday, the Department of Justice sent shockwaves through the nation when Attorney...

Chicago media’s attempt to “reconvict” Paul McKinley may be backfiring in #IL02

Posted by Anne Segal on March 06, 2013 19 Comments

Paul McKinley never has run from the fact that he is an ex-con. He has been upfront about it, and his story of repentance since he was released in 1998 is part of his narrative of "an ex-offender trying to prevent the next offender" and...

NRA minority outreach has usual suspects up in arms

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 29 Comments

Hits the mark in bringing on Colion Noir...

Was SNL’s mocking of Obama’s sequester hysteria a sign of change?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 06, 2013 16 Comments

Or just the lowest hanging fruit of the week?...

What if the President threw a Sequester hissy-fit, and no one cared?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 15 Comments

From a just released ABC/Washington Post poll, Most Back Cuts Overall – But Not to the Military: For all the dire warnings, most Americans welcome a five percent cut in overall federal spending this year. But the defense budget is another matter. The public by nearly 2-1,...