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"We view ourselves as the cop on the beat" to get DEI discrimination out of higher ed

Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport - US Embassy and Israelis Deny

Democrats to Defy Leadership With Protests for Trump's State of the Union

The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 16 Comments

A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...

Saturday Night Card Game (What you see is not always what you get)

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 09, 2013 15 Comments

Oberlin College cancelled classes based on a report that an individual was seen wearing a KKK-hood. It turned out that the mystery figure likely was a woman in a blanket. As we wait for further details as to who was behind hate-graffiti in the weeks prior to the dramatic...

Liberals v Reality, take two

Posted by Joel Engel on March 09, 2013 14 Comments

The other day I was moved to reflect that the world liberals believe in—a Utopia where bad guys are just one tax hike on “the rich” away from being good guys—exists only on car bumpers. Anodyne, nonsensical phrases seem to be the exclusive province of the...

The statist impulse at the Washington Post

Posted by David Gerstman on March 09, 2013 7 Comments

In late February, the Washington Post ran an editorial Solution Politics in Virginia that began: IN VIRGINIA, A REPUBLICAN governor and a GOP-dominated legislature have joined forces with Democrats to enact the first long-term increase in transportation funding since the Reagan administration — and the state’s...

California’s New GOP Chair Donates $1300 to Democratic LA Mayoral Candidate

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 09, 2013 14 Comments

As a Democrat, I am often grateful to the support shown to me by Republican friends. However, California's new Republican Party chairman may have taken support for a Democrat one step too far for the comfort of his party's membership and the GOP contender in a...

Texas Tech Prof Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Fentanyl Ring

Kennesaw State U. Students Yell ‘F*** ICE’ During Walkout Protest

College Fires Prof for Calling Charlie Kirk, TPUSA ‘Racist Pieces of Sh*t’ in Class

Man Who Bought Campus of Green Mountain College Wants to Give it Away for Free

North Carolina Elementary Teacher Who Identifies as ‘Transgender Wolf’ Fired After Complaint

NY High School Teacher Placed on Leave After Offering to Help Students Form TPUSA Chapter

It’s official: McKinley GOP nominee to face gun-banner Robin Kelly

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 12 Comments

Paul McKinley, who had been the presumed winner in the Illinois special election to replace Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been confirmed as the GOP nominee by the state board of elections. There had been a few outstanding provisional ballots that precluded the runner-up, Republican...

Rand-mentum Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2013 2 Comments

One man took a stand, and libertarianism broke out: Young Libertarians Defend Rand Paul From Establishment GOP Cal State Student: Give Me Liberty Or Death By Drones Knox College Student — Rand Paul is a Constitutional Realist Are Millennials going to become the great Libertarian generation? UNC Student: “Do Libertarians...

Dead End Street

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2013 21 Comments

Dear Professor, Greetings from Seaside CA and its "Obama Way". First civic homage I've seen to the potus and regrettably I didn't have any rolaids handy. Aurgh. Best, "Cheerful in Marin" ...

Leftist DC coffee shop attacks pro-Israel customer, Al Jazeera jumps on board

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 39 Comments

Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city's NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server Nuria Kalifa-Jackson, wearing an anti-Israel shirt produced by CodePink, received a 10% tip...

“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it” part 3,031,469

Posted by David Gerstman on March 08, 2013 9 Comments

February 21, 2013 - Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan (via Instapundit) A health insurance company headed by an old friend from when President Obama was an Illinois state senator got a $340 million federal loan to establish Obamacare co-ops in...

Hamilton College student speaks out against the real diversity problem on campus

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 08, 2013 10 Comments

The school that kicked Western Civilization off campus is blind to its own lack of intellectual diversity...

Elizabeth Warren’s Banking Committee methodology — ask questions of the wrong witnesses

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 8 Comments

More headlines for Elizabeth Warren demanding that someone be prosecuted for something. But there's a catch. She's making headlines, once again, by asking questions of witnesses who cannot possibly answer them because they have no jurisdiction to implement criminal prosecutions, Warren starts taking on banks and regulators (emphasis...

Alabama state legislature defeats union, passes school choice

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 11 Comments

Last week. the Alabama legislature passed a bill approving school choice in a speedy series of votes that, according to one report, left the Senate "in chaos" when the Democrats realized what had happened. In reaction to being out-gamed, Democrats in the state House and...

Branco Cartoon – How Dr. Paul Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Filibuster

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 08, 2013 9 Comments

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/08/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 08, 2013 5 Comments

The state of the Secretaries of State One of John Kerry's first acts in office as Secretary of State was a good one. Lee Smith writes in John Kerry Roasts Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not a man who minces words. He has called...

Line-up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2013 17 Comments

Officer, he was about 6'2", brown hair, blue eyes, refused to Coexist, told me to make his day. From commenter Henry Hawkins: Hah! The Perfesser might like this. It's a different sort of 'coexist' bumper sticker I stumbled across on eBay. Could be a case of mistaken idenity, he's...

Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 53 Comments

Is what greeted me when I walked in the door tonight. And for once, she wasn't talking about me. "What the hell are McCain and Graham doing? I'm disgusted."...