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Argument of Girls Sports "Trans" Cases at SCOTUS was "Otherworldly"

Hawley Stumps Doctor With Simple Question: 'Can Men Get Pregnant?'

Mamdani Housing Czar: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners are a Huge Problem’

Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 83 Comments

I previously wrote about how BuzzFeed Politics has combined "the culture" and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery. "Look at the goofy cat, look at the goofy celeb, look at the goofy Republican" is more dangerous...

A changing of the tech guard at Legal Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 7 Comments

As many of you know, Ed Burns implemented a custom design for the blog, including many custom features both in front and behind the scenes, and also transferred all of our posts and comments from Blogger when we moved in June 2011. Ed also helped us roll out...

Russia’s meteor strike is followed by California sky show

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 17, 2013 12 Comments

As my San Diego compatriot Dean Riehm notes: Russia has become to meteors/meteorites what trailer parks have been to tornadoes. Yesterday, a space object thought to be a "tiny asteroid" exploded over the Russia. The ensuing shock wave shattered glass throughout the region, injuring over 1000...

Saturday Night Card Game (Colorlines and The Root accuse Marco Rubio of promoting racism)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 41 Comments

How low will left-wing organizations go in demonizing Marco Rubio? Don't tell me WATER. WATER is nothing compared to this hit on Rubio at Colorlines, the left-wing activist group previously featured on the Saturday Night Card Game for its claims that the term "illegal alien" was racist. An author at...

Prisoner pikuach nefesh

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 14 Comments

More hmmm ...

Indiana Lawmakers Cutting Funds From Some Public Colleges, Redirecting to Trade Schools

Report Claims ‘Feminist Collective’ Took Over Political Science Journal and Prioritized DEI

Colorado Sees Big Drop in Public School Enrollment as More Parents Choose Homeschooling

Northwestern U. LGBT Community Freaks Out Over Obscure Flag Painted on a Rock

Radical Leftist NYC Teachers’ Group Planning ‘Teach-In for Palestine’ on MLK Day

Amherst College Laying Off Administrators Behind Sexually Explicit Programming

American Women, not Koch Brothers, birthed the Tea Party Movement

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 16, 2013 35 Comments

When Professor Jacobson reported that cancer funding research had been used to smear the Tea Party, calling it a tool of a big tobacco and the Koch brothers based on plans hatched over a decade ago, I had one thought: Anti-Tea Party advocates suffer from the single...

NASTY WATER carriers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 58 Comments

Ted Cruz is making all the right enemies, and they are out for him often and early. For Marco Rubio the meme is WATER, for Cruz it's NASTY. The title of this NY Times article originally was Ted Cruz Runs Counter To The Senate's Courtly Ways, but...

Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 31 Comments

In her debut on the Senate Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren once again became the hero of the left because she embarrassed Hapless Bank Regulators, as the Huffington Post put it: Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that Elizabeth...

“Submit We Much” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 2 Comments

No, it's not what you think: College Insurrection Calls For Student Submissions! We will never submit, never, we will fight them in the Quad, in the library, on the slope: Cornell Conservative Students Push Back Against “Social Justice” Course Requirement You Should Make a Free Speech Wall at Your...

The 1% Do Not Feel Loved

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 10 Comments

From Scott: Apparently this much stupid does, in fact, play in Peoria...

Christopher Dorner, LAPD’s ghosts, and left-wing populism

Posted by Joel Engel on February 15, 2013 28 Comments

Here’s a lesson in the wages of appeasement. When the manhunt for Christopher Dorner got desperate, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck panicked and announced that he planned to reinvestigate Dorner’s firing which the former cop, according to his Facebook manifesto, blamed on racism. Beck insisted that the new...

Obama at Chicago school: “these guys are no different than me”

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 10 Comments

President Obama spoke to students at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago this afternoon, using the occasion to address a basket of issues, including gun control, raising the minimum wage, education spending, and the overall state of our communities. During the 26-minute speech, Obama said that he...

Jesse Jackson Jr. Criminal Plea Deal (copy)(Update — charges against wife too)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 11 Comments

A criminal Information was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. this afternoon in which Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged with one count of criminal conspiracy, and forfeiture of assets was sought. The Information alleged that approximately $750,000 of campaign funds was misappropriated for personal expenses,...

Victims who have names

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 50 Comments

One of the saddest stories you will read is the story of Jennifer Morbelli, who died recently along with her unborn daughter during a very late term abortion in Maryland. The story originally was reported by Jill Stanek. In a series of posts, Robert Stacy McCain reported on...

Senior Iranian General killed in Syria/Lebanon by ???

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 22 Comments

Another one of those things that makes you go hmmm...

Jesse Jr to implicate wife in plea deal arrangement?

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her. Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several...

Your cancer research funding at work (attacking the Tea Party)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 33 Comments

What "medical research" will look like in the age of Obamacare...