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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

If this doesn’t motivate you for November, Part 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 12 Comments

Sometimes the Editorial Board of The NY Times gets it right, even if for the wrong reasons, as in this editorial, The Court and the Next President: When Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. began the new Supreme Court term by congratulating Antonin Scalia on his 25th...

Snowloween Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 7 Comments

From Walter Russell Mead referencing cancellation of his own speech, and taking it all in good humor: I was scheduled to give a talk at the Hannah Arendt conference here at Bard this evening on the problems of the green movement in dealing with the connections...

Won’t you please come to Chicago

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 5 Comments

just to sing? Thanks to reader Joe, who writes: Spotted this unfortunate billboard in Chicago (which is shocking, I know) on Western Ave near the I-90 entrance ramp. Felt like it was juxtaposed nicely with the billboard from those greedy, evil corporate fat cats at Big Red. Keep up all the...

Why isn’t Obama protecting these Libyan civilians?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 11 Comments

The pretext for the U.N. no fly zone in Libya was to protect Libyan civilians from Gaddafi's army. The U.S., France and others then exceeded the U.N. mandate by attacking Gaddafi's forces more generally, leading eventually to Gaddafi's capture and field execution. Back in March I...

Saturday Night Card Game (Race-based attacks on Herman Cain expose left-wing hypocrisy, once again)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 17 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain The attacks on Herman Cain from the left are gruesome, as Cain is reduced by his attackers to an affirmative action candidate who helps white Republicans hide their racism by...

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

Just like the Tea Party

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 11 Comments

Because these are the types of headlines from Tea Party rallies: Occupy Wall Street Protester Threatens Fox 5 News Reporter Report: Fights erupt among Occupy Wall Street protesters Occupy Madison loses permit (due to public masterbation) Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally In one sense, it's...

Please donate to the “Jonathan Alter Obama Scandal Education Fund”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 28 Comments

Never has there been a love as true or as blind as media Obamalove, as evidenced by this adoring puff piece written by Jonathan Alter for Bloomberg News, Obama Miracle is White House Free of Scandal: President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that...

Out of the shadows

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2011 8 Comments

Thanks to reader Brian who saw this in the parking lot of this brew pub in Indianapolis, and writes: I live in a much more downscale area, much more blue collar, and I never see this kind of thing in my neighborhood. Apparently ostentatious progressivism is...

Romney picks tonight’s Game 7 winner

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 13 Comments

He's staked out a position, and he's not backing down. From @StevenErtlet: ...

George Will for President! (?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 16 Comments

The title is facetious, of course, but nonetheless relevant in light of this "leak" of a portion of Will's upcoming column which skewers Mitt Romney: Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less...

Say what you will about Peter Schiff

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 28, 2011 8 Comments

but he totally wrecks Cornel West in this recent TV interview that I have deemed a must watch. Once Cornel West makes a fortune off of reading the market, I'll start listening to his explanations of crises. By the way, I'm fairly certain that everyone who pines for Glass-Steagall...

Elizabeth Warren, the Al Gore of Occupy Wall Street

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 12 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has stepped in it with her boast that she created the Occupy Wall Street movement: “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” she says. “I support what they do.” Warren's boast was an overstatement much akin to Al Gore's claim of...

Heavy-handed Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 6 Comments

Yes, this is the point, isn't it? It's not just about big liberal government, it's about big government. By way of example, it's why I am against centralize federal tort reform; just because you like the result doesn't mean you have to empower the federal government...

Beirut 1983

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 6 Comments

This week in 1983 Iranian backed Shiites bombed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 299 Marines and French soldiers. The Marines had been sent as part of an international peacekeeping force in the wake of the Lebanese civil war. Iranian-backed Shiites who later formed Hezbollah...

Despair

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 21 Comments

From Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph (h/t reader John): Instead of hope and change, the Obama presidency has delivered decline and despair on a scale not seen in America since the dying days of the Carter administration. Both at home and abroad, the United States is...

To each according to this bumper sticker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2011 2 Comments

Thanks to frequent photographer Jason who writes: This one was parked at a hospital in Raleigh, NC. The sun was messing me up, so I had to get right up close to get the sticker on the right. ...

For your evening entertainment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2011 10 Comments

From the files, a freak show on the Ed Show, with Anthony Weiner commenting on Alan Grayson: ...