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Adam Carolla Predicts California Fires Will Change the Politics of the State

Meta Reportedly Removes Tampons From Men’s Bathrooms As Part Of Broad DEI Crackdown

Tim Walz Endorses David Hogg for DNC Vice Chair

Did Amazon sell out the rest of the nation?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 10 Comments

You may remember that Amazon.com stopped doing business through "affiliates" (websites and blogs) in California, after the state passed a law requiring companies like Amazon to collect state sales taxes on purchases made through California affiliates. Amazon has settled with California and will resume its relationships, but it...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 15 Comments

Some questions of the day: Will Russ Feingold have a reunion with his former staffer at the Occupy Wall Street protest? And why did the former staffer just turn his Twitter account private? Madison, Wisconsin progressives are traveling to D.C. for this weekend's protests, what possibly could go wrong? How is...

Herman Cain Occupies #OccupyWallStreet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 11 Comments

Think Progress is in a tizzy because Herman Cain told it like it is as to the politics of jealously and envy which are the driving force bechind the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Democratic Party's election strategy. ...

George Mason U. Law School Dean gets it right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

George Mason University School of Law is considered "conservative," at least by law school standards. So when CAIR played the Islamophobe card and demanded that the school shut down a speech by Nonie Darwish , Dean Daniel Polsby said no thanks to CAIR's attempt to squelch dissenting voices: It appears...

More Leftist Hypocrisy: The MSA 11 vs. Laws Restricting Abortion Clinic Protests

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Several nights ago, I found myself arguing with a hyperpriviledged, self-identified anarcho-socialist (don't ask me how that works) about the MSA 11. He and his friends believed them to have been convicted by a racist Orange County jury, under unconstitutional laws. As we were discussing the...

Former Northeastern University Employee Sentenced to Prison for Bomb Hoax

University of Maine System Will Not Divest From Israel Despite Student Demands

Panel at Oregon State U. Concludes Trump Will be Bad for Minorities

Weber State U. in Utah Removes DEI Language From Mission Statement

North Dakota State U. Policy Includes Pledge Against ‘Violence in Language’

Most New York State Residents Back Ban on Masks Following Anti-Israel Incidents

Best #OccupyWallStreet Tweet Ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 5 Comments

Doubly good. First, because the tweet by CNN reporter Alison Kosik was hysterical, and second, because the humorless leftist reaction (added: here, here) to the tweet caused her to take it down, but it lives on because people grabbed screenshots. ...

Science: Leftist Anti-Semitism At Anti-Business Protests Predictable

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 2 Comments

Professor Jacobson and Andrew Breitbart's recent coverage of anti-Semitic incidents at the Occupy Wall Street protests were no surprise to me. A top notch study by political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit back in 2009 found that triggering anti-semitic concepts increased support for anti-business...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded scientific denier

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

There is a lesson here, it's that we cannot allow science to become religion, and must always question scientific authority particularly when it is used for political purposes. From The NY Times (emphasis mine): Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday...

Can’t Stop The Signal – UW-Stout Caves

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 7 Comments

Facing legal action and Internet backlash, University of Wisconsin-Stout has decided to retract their decision to force a professor to take down controversial Firefly and anti-fascism posters: In retrospect, however, it is clear that the removal of the posters - although done with the best intent...

Rats Good, Pilgrims Bad

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Sums up the bumper stickers of this West L.A. lefty's Prius. Of course, thanks to experimentation on rats and other animals, we aren't dying in droves at young ages like the pilgrims. ...

The entire mainstream media will jump on this to impugn the entire #OccupyWallStreet movement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

Just like they did when they found a crazy sign at a Tea Party rally. On the other hand, it might be dismissed as a mere aberration, with serious caution urged not to use the actions of a few to impugn an entire movement. (h/t comment by myiq2xu) Update: More of...

Obama “Jobs Bill” Headline of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

... Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill Do you need to know anything else? If so, the article is here....

Mass. Senate Debate Tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

I'll be watching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Debate tonight at 7 p.m. because it will be the first appearance of Elizabeth Warren. I haven't decided what to do in the race, despite the overwhelming reader vote to support Brown, but I'll be listening. The debate will...

Fast And Furious Roundup: Holder Lied, People Died?

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

I haven't covered this scandal in a while, so here is a roundup of where this story has been going. Who knows, it might even get serious enough that the MSM will take a break from looking under rocks in middle-of-nowhere-Texas for dirt on Republicans...

NY Times’ poster child for #OccupyWallStreet not what he seems (Update: Cole responds)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 32 Comments

The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures. The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job: “I think a good deal...

“I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 9 Comments

So e-mails reader and commenter KC_MRBB KC_MRBB, with a link to the video below, referring to my prior post The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks from October 27, 2008. Related: The Revolt of the Kulaks Has Begun...

What Democracy Looks (And Sounds) Like

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 11 Comments

A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is "This is what democracy looks like!" - a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people. Yes, these protests are examples of...