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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Disheartened Obamaphiles should just stop talking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 45 Comments

It's hard to know whether to cheer their disappointment or commiserate. My natural inclination is to tell them to S*** *** **** ** considering that they have subjected us to four more years. From Michael Goodwin, Obama 2: Even more reckless: People weren’t paying attention. Those are the people now...

U.N. “Palestine” vote served Obama’s purposes, without his fingerprints on it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 17 Comments

The United States nominally opposed the General Assembly Resolution granting nonmember state status to "Palestine." In the short run, it changes nothing on the ground, but it does embolden the Palestinians to hold out for everything, including a reversion to the 1949 Armistice borders, commonly and...

The first battle of the next Tea Party wave — December 5 rally in Nashville against Obamacare exchange

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 23 Comments

Opposition to Obamacare fueled the Tea Party wave of 2009-2010. The next wave will include continued opposition to Obamacare, along with other fiscal issues, The Tea Party tsunami at the gates. The fight over Obamacare as a law ended when Chief Justice John Roberts enganged in...

5 hours and 15 minutes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 6 Comments

from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Hope. Arkansas. Yet if this shop owner is any indication, it's a world away from the days of the Man from Hope. From reader MK Reagan, in August: Eureka Springs, AR is kind of a hippie town, but these T shirts were prominently...

Saturday Night Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 21 Comments

Some advice for congressional Republicans, via Right Scoop (h/t Patricia), start at the 4:00 mark: Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>At the Reagan Forum, an hour's worth of history (jump to 19:50 on how things looked in 1974 and why we do not now need...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Saturday Night Card Game (Touré never met a race card he didn’t like, or remembered)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 25 Comments

Touré Neblett does not think he plays the race card. He doesn't even think there really is a race card, it's a figment of the vivid White imagination: There is no such thing as a race card. Race is not a card that can be played as if...

Pro-Morsi rally in Cairo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 7 Comments

Don't let the recent anti-government protests fool you. The Islamists still are able to turn out large crowds in the New Egypt, as happened today in Cair0 where hundreds of thousands (how many hundreds varies from news report to news report) turned out in support of President Morsi and...

Jefferson is a proxy target in the modern political war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 39 Comments

The Founding Fathers owned slaves. We knew that, didn't we? Slavery was an institution in many places in the world, including the newly formed United States. It took a generation and a civil war to end it here, long before it was ended elsewhere. That fact is...

The Tea Party tsunami at the gates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 79 Comments

Grover Norquist is predicting a second, even larger Tea Party wave, via Breibart.com (h/t Instapundit): "We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave and that is because while 'spend too much' brought the Tea Party into existence, we're...

Stevie Wonder cancels pro-Israel concert under pressure from U.N., anti-Israel groups

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 16 Comments

Via Times of Israel, With ‘a heavy heart,’ Stevie Wonder pulls out of Friends of the IDF concert: Stevie Wonder is calling off a concert for a group that raises money for the Israeli military. Wonder had been scheduled to perform Dec. 6 for Friends of the...

Stealth expansion of “disparate impact” claims attached to Defense Authorization bill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 11 Comments

Never let a good Defense Authorizatio bill go to waste. Two Democratic Senators (Whitehouse and Franken) together with socialist Bernie Sanders have attached co-sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill which would expand so-called "disparate impact" claims under Title VI. (added) The amendment was submitted...

“How did it all go so wrong?” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 1 Comment

The Culture Harvard approves BDSM club When it comes to campus sexual assault charges, being not guilty is not good enough Berkeley Prof — “babies may indeed become the new Title IX frontier” Stanford hosts International Socialist Union meeting The hated 4% on campus CA University Gives “Higher Education” a New...

The Force was not with you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 0 Comments

or me. From frequent photographer Ulises, back in September: He was our last hope in MD...

AP denies “Prophet Mohammed” is in stylebook, but it is AP’s style

Posted by Joel Engel on November 30, 2012 23 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a post titled Associated Press and the Profit of Mohammed. Citing a recent story, it said the AP "apparently insists that Mohammed be preceded by the word Prophet." AP has responded to Legal Insurrection with a denial that the term "Prophet Mohammed" is mandated...

Rhode Island is in the best of hands

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2012 20 Comments

You have no idea what it is like. No idea. Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com...

Cool tool to help keep me in the bubble

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2012 7 Comments

As is obvious from my posts, I never read what people outside the conservative bubble say. So when you see me critiquing almost daily what liberal (and even worse, libertarian) pudits are saying, it's all an illusion. I'm deep in the bubble. So deep, I don't...

Wishful thinking on Republican wishful thinking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2012 12 Comments

There is no conventional wisdom pushed as hard by the anti-Republican media than the notion that Republicans were in a self-contained media and punditry bubble and refused to believe -- or worse yet, deliberately distorted -- contrary polling. Beware this conventional wisdom. I have examined how that conventional...