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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

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/03/2013 – The Benghazi Bungle

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 5 Comments

1) The innocence of the Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 14, 2012: https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/246718237939748865 This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave...

#MASEN boom #2 – PPP finds Markey leads by only 4 pts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 11 Comments

Yesterday we posted how an Emerson College student polling group found Democratic Congressman Edward Markey leading in the June 25 Special Election over newcomer Republican Gabriel Gomez by a mere 6 points. To the extent that student group could be discounted, it's going to be harder...

Where were you when the internet went live?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 16 Comments

Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute was there, one of just 25 active servers...

Jobs report — the new definition of “good”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 9 Comments

The jobs report released today is "good" news compared to what has been. 165,000 net new jobs were added. That's good. Approximately 230,000 net new jobs would need to be added just to keep pace with population growth, so we're still not actually growing...

Xistential denial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 6 Comments

Because the bumper sticker was not enough. From BoPMonkey in the Tip Line: Snapped this pic the other day. ...

Faculty Book Club Selection at Portland State U. Highlights ‘Awful Scourge of White People’

UPenn Hires Assistant Medical Director for Gender and Sexual Health

Harvard Trying to Borrow $675 Million Through Tax-Exempt Bonds

Political Donations From Faculty at U. Idaho Favor Democrats by Margin of 419 to 1

Family of College Student Killed by Illegal Alien in Chicago Speaks Out at Vigil

Hundreds of College DEI Officers Attend Conference to Complain About ‘Chaos’ Caused by Trump

Did Boston Bombing kill immigration “reform”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 24 Comments

Threw the bill off its fast track....

Rebel Pundit squares off with Dick Durbin over May Day speech

Posted by Anne Segal on May 02, 2013 9 Comments

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke at Chicago's annual May Day celebration in Chicago as a flag of Che Guevara waved before him, yet when questioned by Rebel Pundit about his presence at the rally teeming with anarchist, communist, and socialist groups with their red flags,...

Here we go — Markey (D) only up 6 over Gomez (R) in #Masen (Update – Markey launches first attack ad with Gomez / bin Laden split screen)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 12 Comments

"Independents are breaking for Gomez at a nearly 2 to 1 rate"...

Yippie! Daily Beast has a retraction policy for inaccurate and misleading posts (Update – Daily Beast drops Kurtz)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 4 Comments

I totally missed the Howard Kurtz kerfuffle. John Nolte at Breitbart.com has the background. The short version is that Kurtz made a factual error regarding whether Jason Collins had disclosed that he previously was engaged and then tried to minimize the error through after-the-fact editing ...

Commerce nomination cost Pritzker a pretty Penny

Posted by Anne Segal on May 02, 2013 10 Comments

Today President Obama nominated "friend" and fellow Chicagoan Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary, a post that has not been filled since June 2012. In doing so he has gifted one of his top fundraisers (and one of the heirs to the Hyatt chain) with a title,...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/02/2013 – BBC “Team” Sports: Deception in Gaza

Posted by David Gerstman on May 02, 2013 2 Comments

1) Might? May? In March, a report from the UN suggested very strongly that Omar Masharawi (or Mishrawi) was killed by a Hamas rocket. In response, Robert Mackey of the New York Times wrote "might have been caused by 'a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel.'" Mackey's...

Thou shalt not

Posted by David Gerstman on May 02, 2013 3 Comments

From the Baltimore area. This is an eclectic bunch, though I don't like them all. My favorite is the "Don't steal" one. ...

Three Classmates of Boston Bombing Suspect Charged With Interfering in Investigation

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 02, 2013 9 Comments

Three college classmates of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with the investigation. From the FBI's official press release: Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 19, both of New Bedford, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to obstruct...

Cyberattack on US Department of Labor Website, Triggers Malware

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 02, 2013 2 Comments

A sub-domain of the Department of Labor website was hacked on Wednesday, causing the site to be taken offline until further notice. The DOL confirmed the incident in a statement to WUSA-TV. A U.S. Department of Labor spokesman confirms one of its websites is offline after being...

Branco Cartoon – No Child Left Behind

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 02, 2013 11 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

L.A. Times outdoes even the language police — tosses “illegal immigrant” and “undocumented immigrant”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2013 45 Comments

I knew we lost "illegal immigrant" and "illegal immigration" to the language police. The preferred and completely politically correct substitute term was supposed to be "undocumented immigrant." Even Colorlines, the group pushing the claim that "illegal immigrant" is racist, used the term "undocumented immigrant" in a recent...

Some deep and meaningful thoughts on news filtering

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2013 11 Comments

In times of important breaking news (see, Newtown and Boston Bombing), I find myself devoting substantial and increasing amounts of time towards filtering mainstream news media reports trying to figure out what is sufficiently reliable as to be worthy of passing on to my blog readership. I...