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Why have universities become the least free places when they should be the most free?

Scenes of Communist Flags, Riots, and Violent Clashes With DHS During 'No Kings' Protests

Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap

California State Senator Cooks-Up Another Recipe for Economic Failure

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 14, 2013 24 Comments

A California state senator has cooked-up a bill that combines: New York City's nanny-state "Big Gulp" bans. Small businesses fees to pay for excessive compliance requirements. Distribution of power to unelected bureaucrats to enforce the vaguely worded legislation. Talk about recipe for failure! Steven Frank's California has the details on...

I’ll have a side of fries with that Concealed Carry Permit

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2013 12 Comments

From Pat Austin at And So It Goes In Shreveport, Free Chicken Saturday With Concealed Carry Permit: As the 2013 Louisiana legislature prepared to take up several gun regulation proposals, a local fast food fried chicken place has weighed into the debate by offered a free...

Newly elected #IL02 Congresswoman Robin Kelly can’t remember her first two votes

Posted by Anne Segal on April 14, 2013 11 Comments

Robin Kelly, newly elected Democrat Congresswoman in Jesse Jackson, Jr's Illinois district, has already cast two votes. But, a few hours after these votes, she could not answer when a radio host asked her for what she voted. In an interview Friday on local Chicago radio station...

Can the world be trusted with Jews?

Posted by David Gerstman on April 14, 2013 17 Comments

Holocaust Memorial Day was commemorated last week. The day occasioned a number of remarkable stories. Orin Kerr wrote about his late father: The death march brought Aronek and his group to a death camp called Rieben in West Prussia. On the way there, they slept on church floors...

LMAOROTF !!!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2013 16 Comments

Milton CVS robbed of painkillers, amphetamines: Police are looking for the man who robbed the CVS on Bassett Street Saturday afternoon. A man carrying what was described as a silver folding knife robbed the store of about 1,200 Percocet pills and 500 amphetamines at about 4 p.m.,...

Syracuse University Cutting Almost 100 Low-Enrollment Degree Programs

Howard U. Appoints Ibram Kendi to $3 Million Endowed Chair Position

Connecticut Might Issue Grad Student Loans to Offset Trump Limits

Study Finds Most Popular U.S. Graduate Degrees Not Worth the Money

UPenn Celebrates 'Gender Equity Week' With Safe Sex Trivia Night

Leftist Hero Cesar Chavez Erased From Colleges Across the Country

Grassroots #Gosnell Tweetfest versus Obama manufactured anti-gun Thunderclap

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 9 Comments

A study in contrasts. The grassroots Twitter campaign to call attention to the mainstream media blackout on the Kermit Gosnell trial was a huge success, 166,800 #Gosnell tweets in 12 hours (h/t @rsmcain): The Gosnell “tweetfest” on Friday proved to be a massive success, inspiring critical reflections by liberal...

Saturday Night Card Game (Calling the Outstanding Leader “crazy” is like using the N-word)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 15 Comments

Before you read on, to whom am I referring as the Outstanding Leader? Now read on. North Korea under its new, young leader Kim Jong Un, also known as the Outstanding Leader, has been threatening to start a nuclear war, and to start with Tokyo. But don't you...

Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands Fox cancel NASCAR broadcast because NRA a sponsor

Posted by Anne Segal on April 13, 2013 11 Comments

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) called on Rupert Murdoch not to to air today's NASCAR Sprint Cup race because the NRA is a sponsor of the event. Murphy wrote: The horror that unfolded on December 14th at Sandy Hook Elementary School has sparked a national conversation about...

Blue Angels Grounded By Sequestration

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 13 Comments

One of the October highlights in San Diego is the MCAS Miramar Air Show. My husband and son have a father/son day at the event, as they are both aviation enthusiasts. My boy especially adores the Blue Angels, and loves to see them practice in the...

Looking Back on Our Future

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 5 Comments

My son just earned his Space Exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. So, we were very interested to learn about plans to rope-an-asteroid for closer study: The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing the space...

Cause and Effect Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 0 Comments

Cause: While you were sleeping, radical 1960s leftists took over the education system Video: Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer Analyze the Liberal Takeover of Higher Ed Professor attacks Pope for blessing disabled man, claims Christian bias against disabled USC Student Exposes Professor Who Routinely Calls Republicans Stupid and Racist Wisconsin...

Salon.com shouts “Look, Squirrel!” to deflect #Gosnell outrage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 23 Comments

As noted yesterday, the widespread attention to the mainstream media's news blackout on the Kermit Gosnell trial evoked a pushback at Salon.com with the claim that "feminist" writers had written about the horrors, and therefore according to Irin Carmon, There is no Gosnell coverup. That gave rise...

#Victory #IcingOnCake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 3 Comments

I have been encouraging readers to get on Twitter. #Victory Just a few thousand more to go. @leginsurrectionYou begged for me to get on twitter so here I am. My first tweet.— Catherine E. Harrop (@Catherine_in_Va) April 13, 2013 And she sent yesterday's Broadcast Tweet! #IcingOnCake Break #Gosnell news blackout...

Elizabeth Warren backtracks on story of brother living on just $13,200

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2013 31 Comments

but insists "I told the truth"...

Lawfare for Terry McAuliffe >> The Streisand Effect

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2013 6 Comments

Terry McAuliffe, perennial Democratic partisan and Clintonite, wants to be Governor of Virginia. But he has a problem. A big problem, Terry McAuliffe's Solyndra. Go read the article at the link. All you need to know is in this Dukakis-in-a-tank-like photo: While the issue had received attention, it was...

Lame #Gosnell media blackout pushback

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

There is some very lame pushback against the overwhelming evidence that the mainstream media has a virtual news blackout on the Gosnell trial. It started with a post in Slate Salon.com about how "feminist" bloggers have written about Gosnell, and the NY Times reported on the...

RIP Jonathan Winters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2013 5 Comments

TMZ reports (h/t @baseballcrank): Jonathan Winters, the comedic film and TV actor who was huge in the '70s and '80s on shows like "Mork and Mindy," has died at age 87 ...