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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Hey, anyone know how 3rd Amendment supporters voted?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 13, 2012 8 Comments

Third Amendment supporters are among the most motivated voters, because nothing is more fundamental to our liberty than the right not to have soldiers quartered in our houses in time of peace, or even in war, except in a manner prescribed by law. Without the Third Amendment, the First...

Knowledge is good

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 41 Comments

As I have been pointing out for days, there is a concerted effort based at best on speculation and at worst on malicious intent to have us assume the liberal narrative of why we lost the election by just under ...

Newtonian

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 20 Comments

The wisdom of his age. Profoundly so. Maligned by those who failed us so badly. Profoundly so. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...

The Petraeus Timeline: Will We Ever Again Hear the Complete Truth About Anything?

Posted by Joel Engel on November 12, 2012 21 Comments

Scott Shane in the New York Times gives us the Petraeus timeline and does his best to bury both the lede and the story’s implications. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department were notified in the late summer that F.B.I. agents had uncovered what...

Northwestern U. Marxism conference packed with teachers

Posted by Anne Segal on November 12, 2012 25 Comments

Teachers filled the ranks at the 2012 Midwest Marxism Conference, which was held Saturday at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who spoke at one of the breakout sessions, was just one of the hundreds of attendees, many of...

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Julia is laughing all the way to the bank

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 43 Comments

Let's face it, the Obama campaign knew exactly what it was doing with the War on Women campaign. It wasn't targeting married women, but the single women like Julia who, by the terms of Obama's own illustration, rely on government for financial stability, including lots of...

I propose a Sense of the Senate resolution recognizing Elizabeth Warren as the first female Native American Senator

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 24 Comments

Following up on this sarcasm by Eric Larson at Ricochet (h/t reader Danny), legislative action is needed: Is Elizabeth Warren the First Female Native American Senator? If I have this right, then Elizabeth Warren is the first female Native American senator. Surely this is something to be celebrated! Is...

After partial recount, Allen West still just shy of triggering full recount

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on November 12, 2012 20 Comments

Under Florida election law, a full recount is triggered when the margin separating the two candidates is 0.5% or less. After a partial recount in St. Lucie's County, it appears that West has fallen just short of that mark. [Emphasis mine] Tea Party favorite Allen West is...

The insatiable trolling of David Frum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 29 Comments

David Frum announced in November 2011 that Mitt Romney or John Huntsmann must be the nominee, or Frum might leave the GOP: Any other nominee would gravely test my commitment to the political party I’ve supported since I entered the United States as a college student...

Politico wants conservatives to stop reading alternatives to Politico

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 40 Comments

Update -- Studies of media and internet consumption contradict Politico narrative of conservative cocoon....

I still don’t “get” Texas

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2012 46 Comments

Saw the sign below on a bridge in Austin during my trip last month. The bridge is hundreds of feet above the water. Do you need to tell people not to dive? ...

Same old, same old

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 91 Comments

Nothing new, so consider tonight just an open forum for whatever you want to raise....

Whither small conservative blogs?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 73 Comments

The inevitable post-election lull seems like a good time to sits and think. And one of the things I sits and thinks about is the future of small conservative blogs. There seems to be a corporate consolidation of blogs on the right and the left. Already liberals are...

Post-election Breitbarting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 44 Comments

Andrew Marcus, producer of Hating Breitbart, After Election 2012: WWBD -- What Would Breitbart Do? Everything that Andrew predicted in my film, Hating Breitbart, played out in real-time during the election right before our eyes. From Candy Crowley interrupting and taking Obama's side in the...

Learning to love the fiscal cliff after the Santa Claus election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 48 Comments

Here's a description of the "fiscal cliff": So just what is this "fiscal cliff" that has the financial markets rattled and economists and policymakers alike in a tizzy over the potential for sending the economy into another tailspin? It's a one-two punch of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and...

Ann Coulter speech at Fordham cancelled after Univ. President attacks College Republicans

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 36 Comments

This is a follow up to the "Shock the System" post yesterday. As mentioned in that post, College Republicans at Fordham were attacked by the Fordham University President for inviting Ann Coulter to speak. Now the College Republicans have rescinded the invitation. Details at College Insurrection, College...

I already live

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 15 Comments

in the country you fear America is becoming. Spotted in Ithaca. ...