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Biden's last-minute pardons "proved beyond any doubt that there really was a Biden crime family"

Trump's Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer

Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Science: Moderation Did Not Lose McCain The Election, And Is An Asset For Electability – And That’s Why The “Establishment” Acts Like It Is

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 21, 2011 31 Comments

There is a belief on the right that John McCain lost because he was too liberal and conservatives chose to stay home on election day. Some who hold this belief threaten to go Scozzafava on the GOP and refuse to work to stop Obama if...

Stop playing the Democrats’ lobbyist game

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments

Dr. Melissa Clouthier writing about An Indictment Of Right Leaning Journalism By Ben Domenech: Here’s the nutshell: The Left-leaning journalism investigates the right. The Right-leaning journalism provides commentary and (and Ben doesn’t say this, but I am) when they do rarely investigate, investigates the right after being...

How Obama would attack Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 16 Comments

The same way Ted Kennedy and John McCain did. And it's already showing results for Obama. Mitt Romney's negatives are rising because of some initial attacks by the Obama campaign apparatus on Romney's "core" and his Wall Street connections: The Purple Poll, a survey of 12 swing...

OWS Pays Children Cigarettes For Fraudulent Recall Scott Walker Signatures

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 21, 2011 3 Comments

What happens when you combine OWS with the Recall Walker movement? A perfect storm of horrible (embedding not working for me right now, so linked): Hat tip: GatewayPundit....

Disrespectful booing of national figures, and the people who do it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments

You probably have heard about the inappropriate booing of one of our national figures. Such conduct undoubtedly reflected latent racial tingedness and ethnic subtextism. The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a profile of the type of person who engages in such conduct, after an exhaustive study of the person who once threw a...

Northeastern U. Hosting Party to Celebrate New Abortion Pills on Campus

Columbia University Increasing Security After Anti-Israel Protesters Barged Into Classroom

Conservative Student Newspaper at Harvard Wins Fight to Distribute on Campus

Sonoma State University Makes Massive Cuts and Ends Athletics

Georgetown U. Looking to Hire Transgender Studies Literature Professor

U.S. Dept. of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI Policies

No you don’t read banned books

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 18 Comments

... unless you read the Bible in public school. Spotted this vehicle in Albany, NY, last week when I made a day trip there (about 3 hours from Ithaca): ...

“he will need to wage the most negative campaign in history to stand any chance”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 22 Comments

So? What makes you think that would give him a second thought? The quoted language in the headline is from Pat Caddell and Doug Shoen in a column at The Wall Street Journal urging Obama not to run for re-election for the sake of preserving the...

Why is Chris Matthews portraying Obama as “The Other”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 20 Comments

How often have we heard that portraying Obama as out of touch with the American people constitutes a racially tinged and undertoned use of Otherness? Just the other day Rick Perry was accused of invoking Otherness when he said Obama had been privileged: Rick Perry, seeking to paint President...

What was this all about?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 17 Comments

I had not heard this story before, but then again, I didn't pay much attention to the Republican primaries in 2008: In 2008 it was uncovered long after the primaries had been concluded that the Romney campaign staff had in unethical and covert ways infiltrated prominent conservative...

Super Committee Sunday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 14 Comments

The so-called Super Committee is on the brink of failure, if it has not already failed: The congressional committee tasked with reducing the federal deficit is poised to admit defeat as soon as Monday, and its unfinished business will set up a year-end battle over emergency...

“Does anyone have water?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 67 Comments

I have not been particularly sympathetic to the activities of Occupy protests around the country, as the message often is one of self-wallowing pity, misplaced blame, and in some cases, vile rhetoric. The conduct often has been violent. There is a video circulating of police at the...

On 11-8-2008 Robert Novak looked into the future and saw … Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 6 Comments

Robert Novak, writing just after Obama defeated John McCain and Democrats solidified their hold on Congress, predicted that Republicans would turn to Newt Gingrich to lead them back to presidential power in 2012, Newt in 2012? (via @jmartpolitico): In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday,...

Baroke

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 4 Comments

Thanks to reader Cathy who writes: Spotted at Sonny's BBQ, Sanford Florida, today at lunch. My favorite is lower left. 'and we thought Carter sucked'. AmenPersonally, I prefer the "Tell Barack I'm baroke." ...

Romney going all out in Iowa

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2011 14 Comments

As reported by The NY Times, Romney Shifts in Iowa, Playing to Win Quickly: Mr. Romney, who has been cautiously calibrating expectations about his chances in a state full of social conservatives, is now playing to win the Iowa caucuses. Television commercials are on the way,...

Saturday Night Card Game (Never let a good child abuse case go to waste)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2011 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: The child abuse accusations against Jerry Sandusky rightly have captured the attention of the nation. The protests of students after it was announced the Joe Paterno was removed as...

How we should discuss income inequality

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 19, 2011 17 Comments

I've been trying to articulate the way to engage with OWS-sympathizers for the past few weeks. It's hard to write-off some aspects of the OWS gripes: some sectors have seen an inordinate amount of favoritism from the government while a lot of the middle class...

Florida Senate seat in play

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2011 8 Comments

I previously posted about Connie Mack IV's decision to run for the Senate, and wondered what his chances would be. Looks like they are pretty good, according to Rasmussen: Republican Congressman Connie Mack changed his mind late last month about challenging longtime Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in...