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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

#SC01

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 20 Comments

Is this really happening. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CNN projects Elizabeth @colbertbuschsc, sister of @stephenathome, wins Dem primary in #SC01 special election. GOP primary too early to call— Robert Yoon (@yoonCNN) March 20, 2013 Not that, this: Per AP, former SC Gov. Mark Sanford has clinched a spot in the GOP runoff....

Being a bridesmaid isn’t that bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 33 Comments

The soft-bigotry of low expectations...

RNC Report — 100 pages and not a single word about bloggers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 43 Comments

The RNC rolled out its 100-page report on what went wrong in 2012 and what could be done better. The report has 39,136 words in it. One word is missing. Tells you everything you need to know. Contrast: with this: Even when the report does mention "social media," it's in the context...

Cyprus rejects bailout provision to seize percentage of bank deposits

Posted by Anne Segal on March 19, 2013 27 Comments

By a vote of 36 against, 0 in favor, with 19 abstentions, Cyprus lawmakers today rejected a provision that would have made a proposed $8.7 billion bailout contingent upon taking 6.75 percent of the value of all bank deposits. European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan gave his...

Dana Loesch: Paul McKinley “just took us to church”

Posted by Anne Segal on March 19, 2013 10 Comments

Dana Loesch, conservative star on the rise and host of The Dana Show, interviewed Republican Paul McKinley (IL-02) at CPAC, concluding at the end of the powerful interview, "go and support this man, he just took us to church." Loesch and McKinley spoke about the need...

Erika Kirk Urges Judge to Keep Tyler Robinson Murder Trial Open to Public

Supreme Court has Changed the Racial Mix in College Enrollment

Student Government at U. Nebraska to Consider Anti-Israel BDS Resolution

TPUSA Students at Ohio U. Face Gun Threat and Harassment

Story About Black Student Terrorized by White Classmates in Texas is a Hoax

Minneapolis's 'ICE Watch' Network is Getting People Killed

Mideast Media Sampler 03/19/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 19, 2013 5 Comments

1) Is there any hope left for Mideast honesty in the New York Times A few people have pointed out that I missed an op-ed by Rashid Khalidi, Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? One paragraph really stuck out. Until 1991 most Palestinians, although under Israeli...

Elizabeth Warren cherry-picked $22 per hour minimum wage number

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 39 Comments

Guess which she picked from $9.22, $10.01, $10.52, $12.25, $15.34, and $21.72...

Two HOT graphics

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 19, 2013 37 Comments

One of the iconic "proofs" of man-made global warming is the infamous "hockey stick" graph". [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="448"] "Hockey Stick" graph.[/caption] Skeptics questioned the statistics and data used to generate the graph. So, as Powerline's John Hinderaker noted, "a group of climate alarmists headed by Shaun Marcott,...

Ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin!!

Posted by Joel Engel on March 19, 2013 13 Comments

Watching Sarah Palin’s canny performance at CPAC the other day—and particularly the moment she held up that Big Gulp in a Statue of Liberty pose after a provocative double entendre about her “rack”—two words came to mind: Lenny Bruce. In a lot of ways, the philosophical parallels...

Branco Cartoon – Forward 2016

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 18, 2013 14 Comments

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4-H urged to switch to air rifle/pistol due to ammunition shortage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 28 Comments

We have written before about the severe ammunition shortage ever since Democrats announced broadened gun control plans, with store shelves almost bare. Reader Danelle writes about a shortage of .22LR ammunition affecting youth shooting groups: As you know, one of my other jobs is teaching youth shooting...

RNC strategy for African American outreach: internal affirmative action plus more bureaucracy

Posted by Anne Segal on March 18, 2013 26 Comments

I've just begun to comb through the newly released RNC's "Growth and Opportunity Project" report, co-chaired by a group including Ari Fleischer and Haley Barbour. Reading through the methodology, and paying particular attention to the section on African Americans, has left me absolutely fuming. The report combined interviews...

Mission accomplished

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 17 Comments

The primary goal of ElizabethWarrenWiki.org was to serve as a resource for people who don't have the time to search dozens of websites and blogs. So when I stumbled on this at HuffPo the other day, it was one of those moments. The accusation was about Republicans...

Is it a wonder our kids can’t add and subtract?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 26 Comments

In part it's because of an educational culture focused on punishing rambunctious young boys who chew breakfast pastries into the shape of a gun ...

The definition of insanity

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

sane /sān/ Adjective (of a person) Of sound mind; not mad or mentally ill: "hard work kept me sane". (of an undertaking or manner) Reasonable; sensible. in·sane /inˈsān/ Adjective In a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill. (of an action or quality) Characterized or caused by...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/18/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 18, 2013 4 Comments

Cheerleading the Intifada The New York Times has done it again. Less then two weeks after publishing an intellectual attack against Israel, it publishes an article glorifying physical attacks on Israel. The front page story of yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Is This Where the Third...

“Another conservative in the penal colony of MD”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 4 Comments

Another restless reader in Maryland. From frequent photographer Ulises: Another conservative in the penal colony of MD By the way, is Mark Levin who calls MD a penal colony for conservatives...