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Trump Executive Orders: The End of DEI as We've Known It, But Not The End of DEI

CIA Reverses Itself, Acknowledging COVID Likely Originated from a Wuhan Lab

Anti-Israel Politics Trump Academic Freedom Under AAUP Professor Association's New President

24 years ago today, Borking was born

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2011 15 Comments

24 years ago a new term was coined, "borking" or "to bork." It is a tactic in which Democrats still revel, except when they feel they are on the receiving end at which point they cry foul. Borking is the complete politicization of the judicial nomination...

If you have good blood pressure,

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 23, 2011 10 Comments

I recommend reading this discussion between Eliot Spitzer and a protester from Occupy Wall Street. It is actually pretty interesting and shows that Spitzer hasn't forgotten how to speak like a politician: MM: You think representative democracy is the best system we’ve got? ES: Yes! I say...

Occupy Wall Street metaphor alert

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2011 13 Comments

We saw something similar in Wisconsin, when an anti-Scott Walker protester locked her head to a metal railing with a bicycle lock. Yesterday an Occupy Wall Street protester climbed a 70-foot statue demanding that Mayor Bloomberg resign and that the police presence be reduced. The police...

Rhode Island – A public sector pension plan which doesn’t make anything

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2011 11 Comments

You know about the RI pension mess, because I've been pounding that issue pretty much since the founding of this blog three years ago. The New York Times takes a devastating look at Rhode Island, The Little State With a Big Mess (h/t @amandacarpenter): ON the night of...

I think I need a shower

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2011 9 Comments

after seeing this. From reader Joe, send in an e-mail with the subject line "bumper sticker of the day-week-month": Professor, Words fail me, see for yourself! Location- Croton Point Park, Westchester NY ...

New York Teacher Placed on Leave Over Social Media Post Wishing Harm on Trump Supporters

White Supremacist Group Stickers Reportedly Found on Baylor University Campus

College Leaders Joining Forces to Fight Anti-DEI Legislation and Policies

UC-Irvine Hosting Musical Performance About White Privilege

Anti-Israel Protester Suing U. Chicago for Kicking Him Out of Campus Housing

Trump's Orders on DEI Policies Reveal How This Ideology Took Over the University of Colorado

Saturday Night Card Game (Herman Cain isn’t their type of black)(Readers’ Choice Award)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 47 Comments

Herman Cain is bringing out the worst venom from the liberal media and entertainment complex, and the left-wing blogosphere. Just as we saw liberal feminists fall all over themselves to bash Sarah Palin as an insult to women, so too we see liberals who claim to be enlightened...

#OccupyDallas – the birds are not impressed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 10 Comments

The Live Stream camera at street level tells the story, the Occupy Dallas protesters control the streets with the line of marchers extending as far as the eye can see: Okay, maybe not. Reader Derek writes: Professor, I'm an avid reader of your blog. I was in the office today and...

“credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 6 Comments

George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 8: "It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, 'Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five...

CA Finalizes Cap and Trade

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 22, 2011 16 Comments

California's streak of bad governance is coming to a climax with the finalization of their cap and trade legislation: California's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions and put a price on carbon is set to take effect on Jan. 1 after the Air Resources Board voted...

More on the darling Ms. Wafa al-Biss

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 9 Comments

Recently released, already calling on school children to hope for martyrdom. Some more background (h/t @MargieInTelAviv)[Note, I substituted the original NBC video for the YouTube version as a reader pointed out that the last frame of the YouTube video includes links to some offensive videos): https://youtu.be/NpXm9hvXroc...

No Lech Walesa for Occupy Wall Street

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 14 Comments

Oh my how the supporters of Occupy Wall Street cheered when Lech Walesa, hero of the fight against communism in Poland, announced that he would fly to New York to support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Brent Budowsky at The Hill was ecstatic: Great news for the real...

Why I respect Jennifer Rubin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 12 Comments

I don't always agree with Jennifer Rubin, the not-liberal blogger at The Washington Post, who used to blog at Commentary. But I respect her because unlike the Stockholm Syndrome suffering not-liberal columnists at The New York Times, Rubin is willing to take on her own newspaper. This...

Remember when stimulus actually created jobs?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2011 11 Comments

Spotted by the wife about two blocks from our house in Ithaca. She was surprised I had not spotted it yet. Actually I had, but if I took the photo and posted it, there would be hell to pay. But since she took the photo it's...

Today was “Take Our School Children To ‘Occupy Providence’ Day”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 9 Comments

Of course, the day started out as take your child to school, but the school turned it into a field trip to the otherwise sparsely populated Occupy Providence encampment, as tweeted by most excellent Rhode Island talk show host John DePetro: ...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2011 24 Comments

In meetings most of the day, what did I miss? Seems like this is some of it: Everyone out of Iraq by Christmas. Then what. Was Gaddafi originally shot by NATO special forces then turned over to the Libyans who killed him? University of Iowa Poll (thanks reader Charles);...

An Odd Case in Governance

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 21, 2011 9 Comments

Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok has a really fascinating post on the Mexican Mafia: The Mexican Mafia is a fairly small prison gang (perhaps 150-300 made members) and it has significant operational control only within prisons in Southern California yet the Mexican Mafia is extremely...

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