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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Bibi didn’t jump high enough for the Turks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 12 Comments

John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade. The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as a...

Update — #OpIsrael hacker war mostly failing

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 07, 2013 10 Comments

Claims of widespread damage are bluster so far...

#OpIsrael Hack versus Counter-Hack

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Last November, a faction claiming association to the hacker collective Anonymous launched #OpIsrael, in retaliation for Israel’s strikes on Gaza. Earlier this week, those operations were resurrected in another wave of #OpIsrael that is scheduled to commence on April 7th, the date of Holocaust Memorial Day. The...

Saturday Night Card Game (“Bigot!” is the new “let me convince you of the wisdom of my argument”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 16 Comments

The number of topics in which an attempt to have a discussion of opposing viewpoints is shut down by a fusillade of taunts of "bigot" seems to be multiplying. On the gay marriage issue, the Most important legacy of Obama’s gay marriage switch was freeing Dems...

MSNBC — All your children are belong to us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 91 Comments

"We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents"...

Florida Democrat Says Charlie Kirk 'Was Not Assassinated'

Wesleyan U. President Writes Blog Post Praising Anti-ICE Efforts During 'War on Minnesota'

Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical and Law School Enrollment

Yale Investigating Antisemitic Graffiti Spray-Painted Into Snow on Campus

Pro-Abortion Prof Backs Out of Notre Dame Leadership Role After Protests

Teacher Claims School Threatened to Fire Him for Refusing to Read LGBT Book to 1st Graders

So tell me about Dr. Greg Brannon (for U.S. Senate in North Carolina 2014)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 10 Comments

Before you scream that it's too early for this, let me remind you that it's never too early to start thinking through a plan to oust a vulnerable Democrat like Kay Hagan (D-NC) who shouldn't be in the Senate to begin with but for a...

October 15, 2008: “Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of Fairness?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 36 Comments

Were you reading Legal Insurrection on the 3rd day of its existence? If so, you would have known that Democrats were targeting your 401(k) and other retirement accounts, Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of “Fairness”?: Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3...

EU Foreign Policy Chief says nuke talks with Iran have failed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 9 Comments

No One Could Have Seen This Coming...

“Fake But Real” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 0 Comments

Fake: McDonald’s “College Grad Job Ad” listing “fake but accurate” Unfortunately, everything else is real. Really sad: U. Chicago Demolishes Reagan’s Childhood Home Really a glimpse of things to come: Gay Students Seek Campus Chaplain’s Removal from George Washington U. Video: Woman Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State Stanley Kurtz – What’s the...

Pro Tip – Blogging ain’t art, or rocket science

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Leslie forwarded me (via Captain Capitalism) this course description at the University of Maryland: ENGL488B - Topics in Advanced Writing: Writing for the Blogosphere: Prehistory, Theory, Practice This course will offer students an immersion in blogging as a writing practice and as a social/literary genre with deep,...

Love of, um

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 4 Comments

From Ben: I hope we survive to read the book...

Obligatory — Krystal Ball uses daughter as prop

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 34 Comments

Alternative headline -- Krystal Ball daughter forgets lines forcing mother to cross-examine her on TV ...

The Thresher and The Scorpion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 15 Comments

April 10 is the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of The Thresher submarine. At 9:18 a.m. on April 10, 1963, sonar operators aboard the U.S. Navy submarine rescue ship Skylark, which was accompanying the nuclear attack submarine Thresher, heard a chilling sound “like air rushing into...

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...