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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

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...

Caltech Astrophysicist Gunned Down on His Front Porch

UC-Davis Holds ‘Know Your Rights’ Workshop on Encounters With ICE

Stanford Newspaper Sues State Dept. Over Free Speech Rights for International Students

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

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...

Caroline Glick on Judea and Samaria

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 7 Comments

You may recall Professor Eugene Kontorovich's presentation, The Legal Case for Israel, in which he pointed out that the West Bank legally belonged to Israel and was illegally occupied by Jordan prior to 1967. That puts a very different perspective on all the hyped-up claims that...

As Associated Press exiles the phrase “illegal immigrant”, bloggers ban the term “journalist”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 03, 2013 18 Comments

When journalism hits rock bottom, it grabs a jack hammer and keeps going. As Professor Jacobson reported: The Associated Press has banned the phase "illegal immigrant" from its style guide. Yet, illegal immigration remains a serious problem for this country, despite the fact that Obama administration officials...

Paul Ryan Disappearing?

Posted by David Gerstman on April 03, 2013 10 Comments

Politico Focuses on Celebrity over Substance...

Mass anti-Israel cyber-hack planned for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 12 Comments

In case you wondered how they really feel. Via Times of Israel (h/t @CiFWatch): Hackers around the world are plotting to strike Israel’s online presence in a coordinated cyber-attack later this week. The effort, known as “OpIsrael,” which is being organized by hacktivist group Anonymous, aims to...

A chilly look into the economic future of Cyprus

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 03, 2013 4 Comments

Cyprus has been given more flaming hoops to jump through for its economic bailout. BBC News Business is reporting that Cypriots will be asked to make further financial sacrifices: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is contributing 1bn euros, says they are "challenging" and will require "great...

White liberals don’t like being called racist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 22 Comments

Dr. Benjamin Carson is responding to the demonization of him by the liberal media by pointing out the obvious, that liberal media types, many if not most of whom are white, hold a special hatred for black conservatives. Nice Deb has links and the video: White liberals...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/03/2013 – Bleeding heart extremists

Posted by David Gerstman on April 03, 2013 6 Comments

1) Meanwhile in Egypt The New York Times is reporting Egyptians Struggle as Wary Tourists Stay Away: Tourism plummeted in 2011 with the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and the unrest that followed. Some tourists have started to return, but officials say they are mostly beachgoers rather...

Me on African-American Conservatives radio

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 2 Comments

I appeared last night on African-American Conservatives Blog Talk Radio. Before me was Allen West. If you want to jump ahead, my segment starts at the 30 minute mark (it's easier to scroll forward if you go to the AACONS page which has a larger embedded audio...