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Saudis go soft — may drop public beheadings because of shortage of swordsmen

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

Via Times of Israel: A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheading as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. The...

Hispolitica launches

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 2 Comments

Hispolitica has been launched by Javier Manjarres, who runs the great Shark Tank blog in Florida, as announced today: I’m proud to announce the re-launch of Hispolitica. Hispolitica brings a balanced journalistic approach to the issues and concerns of Hispanics in light of their increasing influence in the...

Ashley Judd

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 27 Comments

She will be the progressive cause of 2014. She will raise tens of millions of dollars from Hollywood and the netroots. The media will adore her. Snarky ads like this one run the risk of backfiring because they will allow her to play victim while trivializing...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/11/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 11, 2013 5 Comments

1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week's revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who had uncovered...

Conservative Iowa law professor denied new trial in political discrimination case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 16 Comments

The lawsuit by Teresa Wagner against the former Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Law has received a lot of attention, a tortured procedural history (including a prior appeal) and confusing results. In the latest twist, a judge has denied Wagner's motion for a...

Education Dept. Finds U. Minnesota Discriminated Against Whites, Asians

Women in Academia Create New Term: 'Scholarly Harassment'

Penn State Students Protest ICE, Block Traffic in Solidarity With Renee Good

St. John’s University Continues to Block Approval of Turning Point USA

Columbia Picks Former U. Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor as Fourth New President in Two Years

The History Behind Rampant Antisemitism at CUNY

Sunday afternoon Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 12 Comments

Been traveling for a couple of days. What did I miss? Updates: Noticed this, by someone who is a blogger at a major online publication's blog section, presumably gets paid for it and gets eyeballs from the publication's readership, and therefore can say things such as: Personally I have...

Al Gore: sale of network to Al Jazeera will “raise the game for television journalism”

Posted by Anne Segal on March 10, 2013 30 Comments

Al Gore was questioned Saturday at the SXSW festival about the sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera, which as the interviewer noted, is owned by Qatar--a government largely funded by oil money. Gore replied that he placed the desire to make a "disruptive move"...

Chinese bureaucrats disloyal to government vehicles, choose Audis instead

Posted by Anne Segal on March 10, 2013 5 Comments

Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...

“It’s not as though the twelve Republicans on this campus pose much of a threat to the tenured bully pulpit”

Posted by 0387erp on March 10, 2013 9 Comments

UW-Madison grad student defends student fees for CPAC attendance...

I don’t know why readers sent me tweets about Bobby Jindal, Elizabeth Warren and Indians

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 17 Comments

Via Twitchy, apparently Bobby Jindal made funny at the Gridiron dinner last night. Several readers sent me links to tweets about how Jindal made some joke about himself, Elizabeth Warren and Indians. I don't get it. Is Bobby Jindal Cherokee too? Is that supposed to be funny,...

Wolfpack Pride

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 4 Comments

Hi Professor, Apologies for not sending more frequently, but this one was too good to pass up. She's proud, but I'm ashamed...

The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 16 Comments

A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...

Saturday Night Card Game (What you see is not always what you get)

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 09, 2013 15 Comments

Oberlin College cancelled classes based on a report that an individual was seen wearing a KKK-hood. It turned out that the mystery figure likely was a woman in a blanket. As we wait for further details as to who was behind hate-graffiti in the weeks prior to the dramatic...

Liberals v Reality, take two

Posted by Joel Engel on March 09, 2013 14 Comments

The other day I was moved to reflect that the world liberals believe in—a Utopia where bad guys are just one tax hike on “the rich” away from being good guys—exists only on car bumpers. Anodyne, nonsensical phrases seem to be the exclusive province of the...

The statist impulse at the Washington Post

Posted by David Gerstman on March 09, 2013 7 Comments

In late February, the Washington Post ran an editorial Solution Politics in Virginia that began: IN VIRGINIA, A REPUBLICAN governor and a GOP-dominated legislature have joined forces with Democrats to enact the first long-term increase in transportation funding since the Reagan administration — and the state’s...

California’s New GOP Chair Donates $1300 to Democratic LA Mayoral Candidate

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 09, 2013 14 Comments

As a Democrat, I am often grateful to the support shown to me by Republican friends. However, California's new Republican Party chairman may have taken support for a Democrat one step too far for the comfort of his party's membership and the GOP contender in a...

It’s official: McKinley GOP nominee to face gun-banner Robin Kelly

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 12 Comments

Paul McKinley, who had been the presumed winner in the Illinois special election to replace Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been confirmed as the GOP nominee by the state board of elections. There had been a few outstanding provisional ballots that precluded the runner-up, Republican...