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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

Hagel fails to beat filibuster on day of more troubling revelations

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

The Washington Free Beacon reported today about a speech Hagel gave in 2007 -- as reported at the time by one of his supporters -- that the State Department had become an "adjunct" to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Hagel supporters are fuming, but he was a...

For $57,232 per year you get what at Brown University?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 14, 2013 21 Comments

The bubble stretches ever thinner...

Prisoner X updates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 11 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about Prisoner X. I'm not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it's clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts were...

The gathering storm

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 18 Comments

Tax Prof is out with the year-end 2012 Law Prof Traffic Rankings. We continue to climb, but beware the gathering post-election blog traffic storm. Think Sandy meets Snowzilla. But for now, it's blue skies. (Keep in mind that these numbers are based on public Sitemeter readings, and since...

Branco Cartoon – Econocide

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 14, 2013 9 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 Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

Texas A&M University Cancelling Women and Gender Studies Program

Boston University Course Encourages Students to Interpret Meals as Expressions of Gender Identity

MIT Allegedly Sidestepping DEI Ban in Hiring Practices

U. Wyoming Students Protest Proposed $40 Million State Budget Cut

Harvard Students Receiving Fewer As After Grade Inflation is Exposed

Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School

NY Times digital trolling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday's magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama...

Rand Paul Targets Brennan’s CIA Nomination over Drones

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 14, 2013 28 Comments

Tuesday night, Rand Paul (the freshman senator from Kentucky) gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union address, calling for cutting corporate taxes in half and slashing trillions in federal spending. Paul has been very busy. Today, the Washington Times reports that Paul...

Gimme a fracking break

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 27 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's Criminalize Fracking post. Gimme Coffee is an Ithaca coffee roaster and something of an institution. For a mere $4 or thereabouts, you can have quite a good latte. The coffee happens to be excellent, but it comes with a...

American hero Chris Kyle laid to rest

Posted by Anne Segal on February 13, 2013 27 Comments

Former Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who was killed at a Texas gun range on February 8, was laid to rest Tuesday at the Texas State Cemetery. On Monday, 7,000 people attended a memorial service in his honor at the Cowboys Stadium. Many people are saying Kyle...

L.A.’s nanny mayor with Utopian intentions has made life hell

Posted by Joel Engel on February 13, 2013 32 Comments

When Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles in mid 2003, he promised to focus on quality-of-life issues the way Rudy Giuliani had so successfully in New York. To Angelenos, the number one quality-of-life issue is transit. Pretty much everything else pales in comparison (as...

Obama Opens new Campaign with “Organizing for Action”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 13, 2013 15 Comments

I talked to my mother last night, a long-time Democrat who voted for Obama this November. She said that she had tuned out the State of the Union address to pour a class of wine, because it was more of the "same, nasty rhetoric" she heard...

Prisoner X

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 38 Comments

The mother of all mysteries, making Stuxnet look like a B-grade movie, is unfolding in Israel over Prisoner X. The New York Times has a good summary: The story had all the trappings of a spy thriller: an anonymous prisoner linked to Israel’s secret service, Mossad, isolated in...

Freedom from Accountability and Responsibility

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 7 Comments

BDS at Brooklyn College...

Rand Paul #SOTU speech

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

Just like the Rubio speech, a very good job. Unfortunately, I could not find it on a channel last night, so I didn't see it until this morning. ...

Banana Joe was the star of #SOTU night

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

Instead of watching the Lincoln Of Our Time give his 573rd Gettysburg Address-like speech, I watched the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Trust me, I made the right choice. I did watch Marco Rubio, who gave a fine speech, and who took a sip of water during his speech...

Fracking is racist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 21 Comments

Oh, they'll go there if they need to. Do not doubt me. Welcome to my world. Spotted in Ithaca. ...

Will not watch

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2013 43 Comments

Do not care what he has to say. It's the same old, same old straw men and class warfare. "Some say that government should do nothing while grandma dies and children starve as owners of corporate jets eat jumbo shrimp at 38,000 feet in the air, but I say we the...