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"We view ourselves as the cop on the beat" to get DEI discrimination out of higher ed

Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport - US Embassy and Israelis Deny

Democrats to Defy Leadership With Protests for Trump's State of the Union

Obamacare failing from impossibility not just incompetence

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 19 Comments

Joe Klein recently wrote, ObamaCare incompetence (via memeorandum) Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had...

What don’t you understand about these budget plans?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 6 Comments

The choice is so clear. Which means they won't make the right choice. Via WaPo: ...

The language police win again: AP bans term “Islamist” (Update: List of Muslim leaders who already have violated AP style guide)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 17 Comments

The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists. We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is...

By all means continue with the charade

Posted by Anne Segal on April 05, 2013 14 Comments

The Obama Administration has come up with another transparent stunt to attempt to paint the lackluster sequester doom as something other than the PR attempt that it was. Obama announced he would give 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury, a move that has now...

Mideast Media Sampler 04/05/2013 – Names will never hurt me

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 5 Comments

1) Casting the first stone - and all the subsequent ones too What's the difference between assault with a deadly weapon - a shooting - and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds? Why should teenagers think of rock-throwing as something fun to...

UCLA Cancels Campus Talk by Bari Weiss After Students Petition Against It

UC-Davis Hosting Workshop on How Microaggressions 'Perpetuate Stereotypes'

Lewis University Cancels In-Person Classes Because ICE Worked Nearby

Glossary at Boston U. Teaching Hospital Says ‘Biology’ Doesn’t Define Sex

Women’s and Gender Studies Programs are Part of Trump's DEI Purge in Higher Ed

Ohio State U. Professor Faces Charges for Allegedly Assaulting Filmmaker

Obama jobs “recovery” nears completion as people leave workforce in droves

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 9 Comments

The "unemployment rate" is a number which increasingly is just political, as we have the Obama-phenomenon of large numbers of people leaving the workforce thereby dropping the "unemployment rate" since people who leave the workforce don't count as unemployed. Long ago a reader predicted the terms...

Dem candidate in #IL02 blames Aurora victims: “Nobody pulled out their gun to kill the gentleman”

Posted by Anne Segal on April 05, 2013 15 Comments

Robin Kelly apparently doesn't know theater was gun-free zone...

Branco Cartoon – Ready, Aim, Thud

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 05, 2013 6 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 page Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

5 Signs BuzzFeed May Have Peaked

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 7 Comments

I will take credit for the "Everybody Be Like BuzzFeed" mania sweeping politics, with my post Do not underestimate BuzzFeed Politics, which ran on February 6, 2013. I pushed the mania into overdrive when I mentioned the word ...

RI Senate approves Father-Daughter dances, ACLU still opposes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 18 Comments

Father-daughter dances, currently banned in Cranston, Rhode Island after the ACLU and a single mother threatened to sue under the state anti-discrimination law, are one step closer to reinstatement. The Rhode Island Senate has approved language amending the law to allow single-sex events if comparable events are...

“Humans versus Zombies” Nerf gun game may have caused lockdown of U. Rhode Island

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 11 Comments

There was a lock down of the University of Rhode Island campus in Kingston today after reports of a possible gunman on campus. Lockdown lifted at URI Kingston campus; police say no evidence of shooter The Providence Journal had live coverage including a Twitter map showing locked-down students tweeting...

Pallywood fakes Palestinian handcuffed to hospital bed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 3 Comments

Pallywood never sleeps. You already now that Pallywood is the longest running series in the history of fiction. Now it's being used to help incite a Third Intifada over the death of a Palestinian terrorist from cancer while in prison in Israel, via WaPo: Maysara Abu Hamdiya, 63, died...

Remembering Michael Kelly – 10 years later

Posted by David Gerstman on April 04, 2013 6 Comments

Instapundit linked to Jeffrey Goldberg's tribute to Michael Kelly, an editor of The Atlantic who was killed in Iraq 10 years ago. Goldberg makes an observation that is apt: I miss Michael a lot, not least because he was one of the few funny people in Washington, but...

Ta-Nehisi Coates puts the “mask” on Dr. Ben Carson

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 25 Comments

... and so removes his own....

When Atheists Attack (each other)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 17 Comments

There is a fairly lively Twitter/blogosphere argument going on right now over "the New Atheist" movement. I had not heard that term before, but apparently there are liberal Atheists who don't like other liberal Atheists who argue that the Islam and/or Islamists are the greatest threat...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/04/2013 – Pathological Palestinian Prisoner Protests

Posted by David Gerstman on April 04, 2013 4 Comments

1) Palestinian prisoners protest The New York Times reported Palestinians Jailed in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies: The office of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement that it held the Israeli government “fully responsible” for Mr. Hamdiya’s death, which it said...

“Coming Out As A Conservative On Campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 9 Comments

Last Monday I appeared as a guest of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization to give a talk at my alma mater, Hamilton College. AHI is not affiliated with Hamilton. To the contrary, as discussed here before, Hamilton would not allow AHI...