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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Iron Dome’s big brother, Magic Wand (Update – 1st test successful)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2012 25 Comments

Iron Dome has been declared the only real Israeli winner in the recent Gaza fighting. But it has a big brother coming on line soon, Magic Wand (aka David's Sling): The IDF is in the final stages of laying the groundwork to deploy the "Magic Wand" missile...

Weak Horse, the movie

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2012 8 Comments

If you had any doubt who is the weak horse, witness the change in the story line of the just released remake of Red Dawn, as described by Sonny Bunch in The Washington Free Beacon: Sometime between the start of production and the remake’s release, which...

Tea Party Activists vs Republican Party Operatives in California

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 25, 2012 30 Comments

As a co-founder of one of the largest California Tea Party groups (SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition), I often am asked why I choose to remain a registered Democrat. In part, it is because the state Republican party doesn't inspire much confidence. Or, as I like to...

What’s the chance?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2012 5 Comments

From Thomas on October 11: I went to your website to get your take on last night’s Brown-Warren debate, and I started leafing through your archives. I found your post entitled, I want this person to cry herself to sleep on November 6, with the photo...

Saturday Night Card Game (WaPo plays the Rice card)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 35 Comments

I know I sound like a broken record. Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile, more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination. This time, it is the Editorial Board of The Washington Post,...

Foreign Policy Analyst Suggests Shutting Down College Middle Eastern Studies Departments

DEI Policies Have Caused Real Harm to Young White Men

U. Oklahoma Fires Instructor Who Failed Student for Citing Bible in Essay on Gender

Elementary School Principal Fired Over Antisemitic Remarks in Voicemail He Thought Had Stopped Recording

Christmas Classic: Hillsdale College Choir Performs ‘O Holy Night’

Metropolitan State U. of Denver Rejects Standard American English in the Name of ‘Anti-Racism’

Roger Cohen at NYT hasn’t figured out the “New Egypt” is Islamist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 15 Comments

Roger Cohen was among the worst of the delusional dreamers about the nature of the Islamist uprising in Egypt. I frequently have quoted this prediction by Cohen on February 3, 2011: Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran...

Liberals hate Wal-Mart >> Wal-Mart helps the poor = Liberals hate the poor

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 38 Comments

Just applying a little election year anti-Republican logic to the Black Friday union protests against Wal-Mart, which mostly were a fizzle. Via Lachlan Markay's Storify entry. It's hard keeping up with all the emerging social media tools; Storify is just another thing which, while probably useful, makes...

Dear generator-owning homeowners, do not invite Nick Kristof over next time there is a hurricane

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 43 Comments

I'm still waiting for Nick Kristof of the NY Times to write a column explaining away the rising dictatorship by his beloved Arab Spring. Until then, we have to suffer through a mind-numbing series of non-sequiturs in which the decline in marginal tax rates over the...

“Conservative Students Should Be Seen Not Heard” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 8 Comments

And maybe not even seen. Do not attempt to speak truth to power: Macalester Foreign Student Shocked By One-Sided Liberal Politics on Campus Criticism of Affirmative Action Draws Ire at Harvard Crimson Anti-harassment campus policies are the new speech codes UNC Student — If Quoting Reagan Violates Speech Codes, We’re...

When do we get to ban things?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2012 13 Comments

Spotted in Rhode Island. In a town which has passed a ban on plastic bags in supermarkets: ...

George Zimmerman Trayvon Martin June 10 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 13 Comments

Because of the election, the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin, has been out of our focus. But not for long, as the trial is scheduled for June 10, and there will be pre-trial evidentiary hearings in April. Here are some recent and...

Understand first, then aim

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 40 Comments

A point made here before is that we may not fully understand the reasons why Mitt Romney lost. I've proffered a few gut feelings, but have cautioned against adopting Democratic talking points on immigration and other issues -- in other words, becoming Democrat-lite -- based on...

Eisenhower family continues to fight ‘totalitarian state’ design of memorial

Posted by Anne Segal on November 23, 2012 22 Comments

A proposed Frank Gehry designed memorial for President Eisenhower is being vehemently protested by his only living son as well as granddaughters, who have objected both to the high cost to taxpayers and the design concept. A letter made public November 20 by granddaughter Susan Eisenhower details...

Democratically elected Egyptian President seen as getting awfully dictatorial

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on November 23, 2012 13 Comments

Mohammed Morsi, Egypts recently elected President who was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood following the overthrow Hosni Mubarak, has fallen out of favor with some in his country after some questionable governmental actions. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has issued an order preventing any court from overturning...

At least 40,000 dead in Syria, so far

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

So let's condemn Israel for defending itself against missile attacks from Gaza. Via JPost: More than 40,000 people have been killed in 20 months of conflict between Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces and those fighting for his overthrow, a violence monitoring group said on Friday. Rami Abdelrahman, head...

What’s the difference between Pallywood and media coverage of Gaza?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 7 Comments

Don't answer. It's a trick question. I wonder if the Shoe Fauxtographer got in on the act this time. If anyone finds recent Gaza shoe photos by Abid Katib, post the link in the coments. ...

Berkeley economics Professor J. Bradford DeLong and not counting every vote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 17 Comments

I had not heard of University of California economics Professor James Bradford Delong until he started attacking me unprovoked, including impugning my teaching about which he knows nothing. I learned quickly that DeLong has many enemies in academia because of his vituperative style of argument, which fast is becoming clownish. I...