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Squeezing California - Equal Protection Project Fighting Higher Ed DEI Discrimination Statewide

State Dept. Links 'Code Pink' and Other Far-Left Groups to the Chinese Communist Party

Harvard Prof Who Chaired 'Institutional Neutrality Group' Advocates 'Resistance' to Trump

It’s always around this time when I start to think, maybe I should have gone …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 10 Comments

to CPAC, or whatever the conference happens to be. Of course, if I went I might have been chased down the hallway by gaggles of college kids seeking to get their photos taken with me, either that, or I would have stood alone in a corner...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/14/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 14, 2013 3 Comments

The Ranting of Levine Last week the New York Times published an essay by a philosophy professor, James Levine On Questioning the Jewish State. I won't quote from the essay, but here are some of the responses. Elder of Ziyon argues: In fact, if you follow his bizarre...

Repeat after me again and again: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 19 Comments

I just saw a movie review in The Washington Post from last fall regarding Hating Breitbart. I haven't seen the film (but Anne did, her review is here), so I can't comment on the review itself, although it does bear an unmistakably snide tone to it, as...

Say what you will about @BuzzfeedPol, they’ve got me pegged

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 30 Comments

And they have a very well done post, luring the likes of me into their lair: What Kind Of Conservative Are You? This scientific quiz is the only way to be sure. Just in time for CPAC! Okay, I took the quiz, and this was the result: ...

TRITE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 10 Comments

From Nick: A little diversity for ya professor...

Scholars Claim Women Need Abortions to Make More Money

Justice Department Investigating Lincoln Memorial U. for Allegedly Discriminating Against Jewish Students

U. Florida Health Announces an End to Gender-Related Care

Mistrial Declared in Case of Stanford Students Charged After Anti-Israel Protests in 2024

Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus

CUNY Law Hosting Lecture Framing Hamas Tunnels as Anti-Colonial Resistance

Branco Cartoon – Justice Served

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 13, 2013 8 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. ...

Patriot PAC’s Operation Black Storm endorses Paul McKinley in #IL02

Posted by Anne Segal on March 13, 2013 12 Comments

Prior endorsements included Ted Cruz, Allen West, Mia Love, and Tim Scott...

Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis – Updated

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 13, 2013 27 Comments

I came back from an appointment to find that white smoke was wafting from the Vatican Chimney. From the Globe and Mail: Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be known as Francis. At 7:07 p.m., local time, white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a new...

White Smoke (Update — Pope Francis f/k/a Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires)

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

I guess there's a new Pope. Not being Catholic, I'll leave it to readers to assess after the identity is known. twitter.com/seanhannity/st…— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 13, 2013 PHOTO: White smoke billows out of the Sistine Chapel chimney huff.to/10NK07c twitter.com/HuffingtonPost…— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) March 13, 2013 #HabemusPapam I love...

Everything you always wanted to know about kill-lists, but were afraid to (duck, there’s a drone overhead) ask

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2013 13 Comments

"America's bureaucrats kill with amazing efficiency"...

The good news: 7 Saudi men spared death by firing squad and crucifixion

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

The bad news? Saudi Arabia beheads 7 men after appeals rejected: Seven Saudi men convicted of theft, looting and armed robbery were beheaded on Wednesday, according to the country’s official news agency, more than a week after their families and rights group appealed to the king for...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/13/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 13, 2013 3 Comments

1) Being a reporter means never having to say you're sorry The New York Times has reported on the UN report that raised doubts about the death of Omar Masharawi. Isabel Kershner wrote U.N. Ties Gaza Baby’s Death to Palestinians: Paul Danahar, the BBC Middle East bureau chief,...

Talking smack

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2013 14 Comments

Team Breitbart: We’re going to smack Politico across the face and expose Buzzfeed: Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro took a more bellicose tone, declaring that Breitbart News writers would challenge not only the existing mainstream media for their biased coverage, but also the newer online outlets. “You’ll notice that...

Don’t mess even with Texas Prius drivers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2013 10 Comments

From James in Seabrook, TX: This Car is Driven by The ECONOMY NOT a Liberal…. Thanks for your efforts and great blog! ...

A little late: RNC to hire chief technology officer

Posted by Anne Segal on March 12, 2013 30 Comments

The RNC has announced plans to focus on digital strategy and hire a chief technology officer by May 1, preferably one that "is maybe able to come in and change the way that we think," according to RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski. If Kukowski hadn't added that...

Lost in cyberspace

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 23 Comments

Yesterday afternoon an error was made in server maintenance leading to the server going offline, but it was restored as of 8 a.m. this morning with very little loss of data. Unfortunately, the hosting company did a second restore which should not have taken place which...

Buy (law school) when everyone else is selling (but don’t overpay)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 4 Comments

“Buy when everyone else is selling.” From Warren Buffett on down, it’s a time tested approach to investing. It doesn’t mean purchase anything that comes along, or overpay, but it’s a contrarian approach to the madness of markets which tend to drive valuations to extremes for...