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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 23 Comments

Some of my renowned "quick, newsy bits and links" of which I am so proud: Supreme Court ready to throw out affirmative action?  NY Times is worried, and at least one conservative thinks it's lining up as a distinct possibility. Prop. 8 backers seek 9th Circuit en...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 19 Comments

A PBS documentary about which supporters of Bill are not happy: Monica Lewinsky has attempted to keep a low-profile after her role in President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal made her name the butt of many late-night jokes. But she's likely to become a topic of discussion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 10 Comments

That would be the result of a successful recall of Gov. Scott Walker. From Heritage Foundation via CharlieSykes: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 50 Comments

Being the mainstream media means making birth control an election issue, then wondering aloud why birth control is an election issue. Disingenuous Tweet of the Day: The tweet links to an article titled Birth control as election issue? Why? The issue of birth control has suddenly become an obsession...

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Jewish Students at Yale React to Anti-Israel Demonstrations on Campus

Education Dept. Demands Harvard Release More Records on its Foreign Funding

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 16 Comments

Obama has a Jewish problem because of his administration's Israel policy.  I don't think the Jewish problem is a great as some recent polling suggests, but there does seem to be movement. From the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Israeli forces in Egypt and throughout the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2012 11 Comments

done that, on a smaller scale.  Didn't work out that well. Spotted in a car rear window in Ithaca not far from my house: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 37 Comments

thaaaat leads, to: This apology.  When do I get mine? And the award for the Most Underrated Blog Post of 2012 goes to ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 5 Comments

Blogger Gina Cobb passed away at the end of last year, as announced in this January 21, 2012, blog post from her family: It is with tremendous sadness and sorrow that the family announces the recent passing of Gina Cobb. She departed very peacefully to her heavenly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 32 Comments

If only Obama could get over 50%, he'd have a lock on re-election: Update:  Remember, because of the implicit marginal rate, people in this category face huge financial disincentives to earning more money....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 63 Comments

"Chink in the armor" is a non-racial idiom, not a single word, denoting: A vulnerable area, as in Putting things off to the last minute is the chink in Pat's armor and is bound to get her in trouble one day . This term relies on chink ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 57 Comments

Other than everything? It's a theme I've been harping on since the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of this campaign season.  Not being someone else is not a reason to vote for you. Oh, we'll vote for you if the only someone else is...

Posted by Michael Alan on February 20, 2012 23 Comments

It's been a few days since I returned to Ithaca from my now-annual trip to CPAC with the Cornell College Republicans and, while I can't help but think I wasn't at the same conference as Erick Erickson, it was a great opportunity to meet other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 10 Comments

even up there in Scamalot. Thanks to reader Judy, who writes: I spotted this bumper sticker Saturday (2/18) in Rockport, Massachusetts. (The car was in a parking lot and I was on foot.) ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 73 Comments

The Trouble With Mitt: It is ludicrous to claim that the fault lies among conservatives for Romney's precipitous drop among independents, which he’s endured over the past month (in some polls, it's been a negative swing of 20 points), the primary reason he now lags Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 32 Comments

According to researchers, new MRI time-lapse techniques have been developed to track the brain waves of the insane. In a normal human, various brain waves representing essential cognitive functions rarely cross paths, and maintain more or less stable trajectories. In the insane, there are jagged trajectories in...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 19, 2012 17 Comments

The Arab Spring has sprung. But for us, it has been mostly doom and gloom, an extended winter. Throughout the Middle East, we have seen an uprising against the established order. In most cases, these uprisings have been overdue as the tyrants had their collective feet...

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