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Trump on Tucker: "Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!"

DOJ to Review Mamdani's 'Racial Equity Plan' for New York City

Baltimore Reparations Fund Plagued by Infighting and Struggles for Control

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/08/2013 – Diplomacy is more than words

Posted by David Gerstman on April 08, 2013 2 Comments

1) The language of concessions The Washington Post reports Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks: Kerry first visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has resisted new talks for most of the past four years. His government had sought to file...

Margaret Thatcher dies, RIP Iron Lady

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2013 48 Comments

Margaret Thatcher is dead. What can be said. We lost a giant for freedom and human dignity. ...

#OpIsrael or #OpPallywood? — Reports of Israel’s internet demise appear greatly exaggerated

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 08, 2013 3 Comments

CyberWar or Propaganda War? Or Both?...

#OpIsrael attempts hack on Yad Vashem’s website on Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 2 Comments

Mandy will have an update on #OpIsrael either later tonight or in the morning. My suspicion is that we have another historic Palestinian victory inflicting severe injury on the Zionist entity, just like all their other victories. One of the victories attempted by the hackers was to...

The “guts to stand up and say it” on campus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 10 Comments

Scott Johnson at Power Line writes about the devastating report on Bowdoin College and the college President's smug response to a professor who wrote to the President about the issues. Here's the letter the professor published in the Bowdoin student newspaper: To the Editor, I write to tell you about my...

CCNY to Host ‘Lavender' Graduation Ceremony for LGBT Graduates

Student Turned Google Engineer Who Was Rejected by 16 Colleges Uses AI to Sue Them

Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi to be Honored by a Catholic University in California

Tennessee School Board Member Censured for Calling a Student 'Hot'

NYU Forced to Scrap Live Commencement Speeches Because of Pro-Palestine Activism

Indiana's Public Universities Cut or Merge Nearly 600 Degrees

SPLC — milking old northern liberals for decades

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 20 Comments

I have written so many times about the fundraising charade conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, in which "hate group" numbers are inflated and fear mongering is used to pump up SPLC's massive endowment used to pay enormous salaries. As with the proverbial broken clock,...

Is #OpIsrael invited to CUNY’s Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 15 Comments

We have written numerous times about the depraved "pinkwashing" narrative, that Israel must be condemned by gay rights activists for publicizing the fact that it is the only country in the Middle East where gays are not persecuted. That simple truth is too much for the...

Bibi didn’t jump high enough for the Turks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 12 Comments

John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade. The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as a...

Update — #OpIsrael hacker war mostly failing

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 07, 2013 10 Comments

Claims of widespread damage are bluster so far...

#OpIsrael Hack versus Counter-Hack

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Last November, a faction claiming association to the hacker collective Anonymous launched #OpIsrael, in retaliation for Israel’s strikes on Gaza. Earlier this week, those operations were resurrected in another wave of #OpIsrael that is scheduled to commence on April 7th, the date of Holocaust Memorial Day. The...

Saturday Night Card Game (“Bigot!” is the new “let me convince you of the wisdom of my argument”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 16 Comments

The number of topics in which an attempt to have a discussion of opposing viewpoints is shut down by a fusillade of taunts of "bigot" seems to be multiplying. On the gay marriage issue, the Most important legacy of Obama’s gay marriage switch was freeing Dems...

MSNBC — All your children are belong to us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 91 Comments

"We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents"...

So tell me about Dr. Greg Brannon (for U.S. Senate in North Carolina 2014)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 10 Comments

Before you scream that it's too early for this, let me remind you that it's never too early to start thinking through a plan to oust a vulnerable Democrat like Kay Hagan (D-NC) who shouldn't be in the Senate to begin with but for a...

October 15, 2008: “Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of Fairness?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 36 Comments

Were you reading Legal Insurrection on the 3rd day of its existence? If so, you would have known that Democrats were targeting your 401(k) and other retirement accounts, Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of “Fairness”?: Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3...

EU Foreign Policy Chief says nuke talks with Iran have failed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 9 Comments

No One Could Have Seen This Coming...

“Fake But Real” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 0 Comments

Fake: McDonald’s “College Grad Job Ad” listing “fake but accurate” Unfortunately, everything else is real. Really sad: U. Chicago Demolishes Reagan’s Childhood Home Really a glimpse of things to come: Gay Students Seek Campus Chaplain’s Removal from George Washington U. Video: Woman Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State Stanley Kurtz – What’s the...

Pro Tip – Blogging ain’t art, or rocket science

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Leslie forwarded me (via Captain Capitalism) this course description at the University of Maryland: ENGL488B - Topics in Advanced Writing: Writing for the Blogosphere: Prehistory, Theory, Practice This course will offer students an immersion in blogging as a writing practice and as a social/literary genre with deep,...