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Why have universities become the least free places when they should be the most free?

Scenes of Communist Flags, Riots, and Violent Clashes With DHS During 'No Kings' Protests

Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap

NBC’s David Gregory Calls Carney’s Explanation on Revised Benghazi Talking Points “Not Accurate”

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 12, 2013 10 Comments

David Gregory of Meet the Press sat down Sunday morning with House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who has led the state department’s review of Benghazi, to discuss the investigation into the aftermath of the September 11th, 2012 attack on...

Don’t drink the global warming “wine”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 12, 2013 12 Comments

Happy Mother's Day. As part of my personal celebration, I am planning to indulge in one of my pamper pastimes: Sipping some fine California wine. Sadly, eco-activists have targeted the Golden State's vineyards in their latest fear campaign: The study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National...

10-4

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 13 Comments

Here’s the bummer: right-wing blogs are read by only a fraction of the electorate, and so the good information put out there by the professor is almost without voice in the grand scheme of things. The truth he utters deserves greater audience. The tragedy is that...

IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 20 Comments

Since the rise of the Tea Party movement in the spring of 2009, the movement has been the target of Democratic politicians and supportive media. The Tea Party was called un-American and terrorists for showing up at health care town halls and voicing an opinion. The Department...

How #Benghazi punctures the “team of rivals” myth

Posted by David Gerstman on May 12, 2013 24 Comments

There was a useful fiction about Barack Obama. His cabinet would consist of a "team of rivals." After this week's hearings, I doubt we'll hear the term again regarding this administration. So now we know who took the terrorist attack references out. Next shoe: who put the...

Universities of Wisconsin President Claims He is Being Told to Step Down for No Reason

New President at Minnesota North College a Big Supporter of DEI Policies

Report Blames U. California Faculty for Driving Antisemitism on Campus

Syracuse University Cutting Almost 100 Low-Enrollment Degree Programs

Howard U. Appoints Ibram Kendi to $3 Million Endowed Chair Position

Connecticut Might Issue Grad Student Loans to Offset Trump Limits

Not a Macker backer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 2 Comments

Save us, Virginia. Sir, I attended the Albemarle County Republican Breakfast this morning and happened upon this display of freedom in the parking lot. 5 of the 7 LG candidates spoke and it was a packed room. The Republican Nominating convention is May 18 and will be...

Saturday Night Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 30 Comments

Benghazi exposed to be a big White House and State Department lie. The IRS caught targeting Tea Party groups and those "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights." Republicans ready to pass amnesty for law breakers. There will be no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I'm taking the...

IRS anti-Tea Party scandal gets real — senior IRS officials aware of targeting (Update – Chief Counsel knew and targets expanded to groups “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 59 Comments

This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some "low level" employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties' tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON (AP)...

Anti-Israel Prof. Noam Chomsky helped BDS get to Stephen Hawking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 27 Comments

If you think Stephen Hawking's decision not to attend a conference in Israel was a principled stand for academic or other freedoms, you can drop that notion. Hawking, as many have pointed out in the past few days, has attended conferences in the past several years...

How IRS targeting of Tea Party groups was exposed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 13 Comments

Mark Levin details the history of the fight to expose the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Via DailyRushbo via Right Scoop: ...

“Think As You Are Told” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 3 Comments

Lords of the Flies: Johns Hopkins pro-choice group tries to silence pro-life students using “harassment” policy Northwestern Latino student group says eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is racist Berkeley student govt calls for divestment from “United States Prison Industrial Complex” including, um, McDonalds Envelope with white powder...

Like a whole other, other country

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 13 Comments

Not Texas. Dear Prof. Jacobson, Well, the skies are blue, at least . . . After "One step away from #Gosnell," I figure we need our spirits lifted a bit, so I present the following, taken in Burns, Oregon, the other day. Some background: Harney County, Oregon, is 10,226...

The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 62 Comments

"I hoped I would never see this day, but I feared I would."...

Jay Carney attempts to throw CIA under the bus on Benghazi talking points

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 30 Comments

I'll post the video when available. (Wow, GOP Rapid Response got this video out really quickly) Here are some tweets as it took place:

Throwing CIA under bus never works, ask every prior President--> payback leaks
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 10, 2013

Carney: Should we have overruled the intelligence community?We relied on what they thought.Fighting words.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 10, 2013

"These were intelligence community talking points" -Jay Carney
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013

Really risky strategy of the WH to keep pointing fingers at the CIA
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 10, 2013

WH is playing w/ fire passing buck to the CIA on stuff like this, b/c intel community can only be kicked around for so long. #leaks
— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) May 10, 2013

Jay Carney has been trying to suggest that the CIA made all the edits. Now he admits they made the edits on suggestions from State & WH.
— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 10, 2013

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/10/2013 – Newseum honors Terror TV

Posted by David Gerstman on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

1) When is news not really news? The Newseum - a museum devoted to the news business - recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November. Newseum...

Branco Cartoon – Grab A Mop

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 10, 2013 7 Comments

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As IRS admits it targeted Tea Party groups, remember IRS is Obamacare enforcer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 25 Comments

A lesson also for blind faith in government to fairly enforce the Gang of 8 immigration provisions...