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Feds should bring "a good, strong case against a mayor or a governor interfering with ICE operations"

Kamala Harris Rebrands Headquarters as a 'Gen-Z Progressive Content Hub'

Tongva Tribe Reminds Billie Eilish That Her Mansion Sits on Its Land

Chuck Todd, safe on foreign soil, launches barrage of questions aimed at Our President

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 15 Comments

And now we rise up against one Charles David Todd. Safe on Israeli soil, protected by the Iron Dome system from drone attack, Chuck rose up to challenge Obama: How dare he! This is Our President you are talking about. The defenders of the realm have started...

My question for @Reince

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 14 Comments

I sent a similar question via the Contact page at the RNC website. I'll let you know if I hear back. @reinceWhy no mention of conservative bloggers? legalinsurrection.com/2013/03/rnc-re…— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 20, 2013 ...

Elizabeth Warren already planning to cash in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 15 Comments

It's not like you didn't see this coming. Those inane and made-for-YouTube moments, lacking in substance and confusing the gullible media, are the pre-publicity. Anyone familiar with Elizabeth Warren's history knows that she knows how to turn the "rigged" schtick into a buck. (Off topic, there's this...

Obama’s Israel trip a peacekeeping mission — with Netanyahu

Posted by Anne Segal on March 20, 2013 9 Comments

Remember when this exchange was overheard by journalists about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Sarkozy: "I can't stand him. He's a liar." Obama: "You're tired of him -- what about me? I have to deal with him every day." After four years of snubbing Israel's Prime Minister, including grabbing dinner...

#Journalism — Boston Globe columnist fights with The Onion over whether Boston’s a world class city

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 13 Comments

The Onion had a typically funny post, Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’. Boston Globe columnist Tom Keane took umbrage, and responded with a spirited defense of Beantown, Boston’s big city game: ‘Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’ ”...

Diversity Hiring Has Backfired on Higher Education

San Francisco Schools Anticipate Closure Due to Possible Teachers Strike

Under the Big Beautiful Bill, Colleges With Low-Earning Grads Could Lose Access to Student Loans

Professor Likely to Become Harvard's New History Chair Has History of Hating Trump, Israel

Staffers Cut Ties With Notre Dame Over Hiring of Abortion Advocate

Prof Warns Blowing Whistles to Alert Others to ICE Could ‘Retraumatize’ Hispanics

San Francisco pol delivers 25-ft buffer legislation to abortionist supporters

Posted by Anne Segal on March 20, 2013 17 Comments

San Francisco city supervisor David Campos is making good on his campaign promise to go after "right-wing extremists," reportedly proposing legislation Tuesday to increase the anti-free speech "bubble zone" around Planned Parenthood to 25 feet. Campos's website describes exactly who he is trying to attack: "right-wing extremists": David...

Mideast Media Sampler – The anti-Zionist DNA of the New York Times

Posted by David Gerstman on March 20, 2013 3 Comments

The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times' coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever complicated personal themes may have floated in...

What, no whirled peas?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 9 Comments

From J: A self-admitted bedwetting liberal in Charlottesville. OK, the bumper sticker is actually for a rainwater falloff service, but I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony. ...

#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...

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...