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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

You can make this stuff up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments

And still be right. Via Ed Driscoll: In the illustration above, the Newsweek cover on the left was mocked-up by the Photoshop artists at National Review to accompany a 2009 satire by Rob Long titled, “A Conversation from Heaven,” regarding what Bernard Goldberg might call Newsweek’s “Slobbering...

“we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my home”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments

Obama wants Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders, and he's squarely placed the blame on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not being willing to go along. I addressed this the other day in my post, Obama’s interference in Israel’s election. Now Netanyahu is speaking...

When concerts are outlawed, only outlaws will have concerts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 41 Comments

The left-blogosphere is joyous because there were accidental shootings at gun shows and events for Gun Appreciation Day. Really, they're putting the full snark on, because nothing says "suspend the 2nd Amendment" like accidental shootings: There's something much more dangerous. Rock concerts, which have a sordid history of serious...

Well regulated pants

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 8 Comments

I didn't get the pants reference at first. Now I get it. This sounds like a possible threat to human rights. From frequent photographer 9th District Neighhor: I photographed this proud Second Amendment supporter in a Walmart parking lot in Mount Prospect, IL. In addition to this sticker,...

Saturday Night Card Game (Colin Powell’s deep vein of ignorance about what’s happening in the Republican Party)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 53 Comments

It's sad to see Colin Powell, appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State by Republican Presidents, continuing to attack Republicans as racist: While continuing to identify as a Republican, former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday criticized the GOP for a series of...

Erika Kirk Says Turning Point USA Will Continue College Campus Debates

U. San Francisco to Employ AI in Admissions Process

U. Minnesota Profs Enter Third Year of Study on ‘Antiracist Parenting’

Credit Rating Agencies Issue Unfavorable Outlook for Higher Education in 2026

Instructor at British School 'Likened to a Terrorist' for Showing Videos of Trump in Class

Man Connected to Harvard Human Remains Scandal Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

Gun Appreciation Day — Hour wait at Jacksonville Gun Show

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 27 Comments

Today is Gun Appreciation Day. We aren't following it the way we did with Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day or Empty Chair Day. But a reader did to go the Jacksonville Gun Show today, and sent in the following comment, photos and video. One hour wait to get in the gun show! Also,...

9017 plus 518

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 7 Comments

That's how many Twitter followers we have as of this writing for Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection, respectively. If you are not on Twitter, you need to be. It's easy, you can use the same fake name you use here. Then you can follow @LegInsurrection and @CollegeInsurrec. While...

Energy independence within reach if we’re allowed to reach it

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 19, 2013 12 Comments

In College Insurrection, I recently covered a story showing that North Dakota universities were about the only higher education institutions in the country expecting increased funding. These revenues are courtesy of the state's recent oil boom. This is one example of how oil shale may prove...

Why won’t Elizabeth Warren just do a Lance Armstrong on the Cherokee controversy?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 22 Comments

Why won't she just come clean? Go on Oprah, admit that the claim to be Cherokee was a mistake and that she knew it at the time or at least had serious doubts, but make like it's not important to who she is as a person. Her...

“The Usual Sex, Diversity, and Nutty Profs” Week at College Insurrection (Plus Guns!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 1 Comment

I'm definitely seeing a trend here. Sex Massive student ‘orgy’ centerpiece of campus “Sex-Ed Week” U. Missouri offers “Sibling Incest in Theory and Literature” Female Students Turning to “Sugar Daddies” to Pay for School Are Some Liberal Academics Attempting to Normalize Pedophilia? Students File Sexual Assault Complaint at UNC UNC Student: Sexual...

Protest, but which one?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 4 Comments

My first reaction was that the sticker was a pro-2nd Amendment protest. But on reflection, I'm thinking it's anti-gun in reaction to the Newtown shooting. From commenter Markinct: Seen in Hartford, CT on the 15th of January...

I hate having to do this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 36 Comments

Told ya so: And please don’t tell me that we’ll give in on taxes now and make our stand on spending and entitlements over the national debt limit — ain’t gonna happen. Ain't gonna happen: Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Republican whip, said in Houston Thursday that...

Federal Appeals Court upholds Wisconsin union law

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 11 Comments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has upheld the Wisconsin union law that was the subject of massive protests in 2011, including a takeover of the State Capitol and widespread threats and acts of intimidation. The decision was unanimous in most respects. ...

Cult of Personality

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 46 Comments

Keith Koffler at White House Dossier has it exactly right, Obama to Create Mass Organization Devoted to Obama: President Obama will remake his presidential campaign into a massive new movement devoted to supporting his agenda, an unprecedented move that creates a brand new political organization devoted...

Controlling the narrative through language — “gun control” out, “gun violence” in

Posted by Anne Segal on January 18, 2013 17 Comments

As part of "turning loose" his massive campaign apparatus on a number of policy fronts, President Obama appears to be directing a language overhaul as part of his gun-control agenda. In a recent press conference with Joe Biden, The Atlantic's Molly Ball observes that neither President Obama nor...

Plutocrats against middle-class prosperity on nimby parade

Posted by Joel Engel on January 18, 2013 32 Comments

As soon as I heard the word fracking for the first time, I thought it was an onomatopoeia of Yoko Ono's "singing." Now comes confirmation (via WaPo): Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon spoke out against fracking Thursday during a tour of natural-gas drilling sites...

“Great grandma was a Cherokee”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 13 Comments

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people with high...