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Biden's last-minute pardons "proved beyond any doubt that there really was a Biden crime family"

Trump's Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer

Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Mother Goose Lives; Frenchmen Cry

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 16, 2011 18 Comments

In seven months, foie gras is going to be banned by California. The impetus for the bill was, of course, animal rights activists who claim that the fattened goose or duck liver promotes cruelty to animals. Naturally, chefs are fighting back and planning types of...

Another Occupy Wall Street poster child who is not (Update: He responds)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 87 Comments

Scrolling through The Daily News' live blog of the Occupy Wall Street protest in Times Square yesterday, this photo and caption jumped out at me: Student loan debt a hot topic among Times Sq. crowd. "Student loans screwed up my credit!" one protester screamed while Shakina Nayfack,...

Still they drone on and on

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2011 9 Comments

about visualizing world peace and Obama. Spotted in Ithaca on my way home from the Occupy Ithaca rally: ...

List of terrorists to be released is sickening

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 11 Comments

In many ways, it's worse than I originally thought, now that the names officially have been released. In addition to the planners of the Sbarro Pizza bombing, about which I blogged earlier, the releasees include the planners of many other high profile bombings, terrorist attacks which...

Saturday Night Card Game (Calling on Think Progress to play the ‘guilt by association card’ on Occupy Wall Street)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 18 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Dear Think Progress: For the past several years you have been playing the race and extremist cards on people who oppose Obama's policies, most particularly against the Tea Party movement and...

Columbia University Increasing Security After Anti-Israel Protesters Barged Into Classroom

Conservative Student Newspaper at Harvard Wins Fight to Distribute on Campus

Sonoma State University Makes Massive Cuts and Ends Athletics

Georgetown U. Looking to Hire Transgender Studies Literature Professor

U.S. Dept. of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI Policies

Ohio College Students Protest Bill That Would Ban DEI Policies

What is right about this Occupy Ithaca picture?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 19 Comments

I attended the Occupy Ithaca rally today, which was scheduled as a mass peaceful demonstration starting at noon outside a Bank of America branch in downtown Ithaca As of 12:30 p.m., when I dropped by, there were about a dozen people holding signs. I kind of...

How long before Dems call OWS a Rovian plot?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 24 Comments

So far, Democrats are going all in on the Occupy Wall Street movement, with the DNC even cirulating a petition in support. Obama is trying to harness the energy for his campaign. That will change if plans for an OWS national convention take place next summer, signifying that...

#OccupyMediaHype

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 5 Comments

Quote of the day, from a mostly sympathetic Walter Shapiro writing in The New Republic (h/t @SissyWillis): How do I convey this respectfully as a veteran of the 1960s? This is not the 1967 Pentagon March or anything like it. Nothing I saw in New York this...

Gimme just one more reason

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2011 2 Comments

The bumper sticker below lists three reasons to vote for Obama. He'll have to do better than that if he wants my vote. Throw in "destroy the economy" and I'm there. Spotted by reader Leslie, who writes: Spotted in Jacksonville, FL at a union packing plant ...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 30 Comments

Should I go to the Occupy Ithaca protest tomorrow? And tell them that they already occupy Ithaca so they can't occupy themselves? How are the Occupy protests any different than what we see every time there is a G20 meeting? Not good when a candidate's wife becomes...

Occupy … Cornell?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 14, 2011 16 Comments

Today a bunch of college Dems have created an "Occupy Cornell" event. I don't know what the objective of this is, but it looks like a pretty pathetic state of affairs in "solidarity." Here's the transcript of the "occupation" if your eyes are in need of...

“What happens after the next soldier is kidnapped?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 16 Comments

That's the question asked at the end of a long Jerusalem Post report on the negotiations leading to the swap of over 1000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were responsible for the most heinous terrorist attacks which killed hundreds of Israelis, for captured Israeli soldier...

Politico’s BHO Moment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 2 Comments

The homepage of Politico this morning resembled the now-infamous Esquire ode de love to Barack Obama. Obama as heir to the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy, marching arm-in-arm with those who walked arm-in-arm with Dr. King: Except that the story was not quite at the cover indicated,...

Occupy Boston Displaces Food Drive, Spits On Soldier; Right Sphere Raises Money for Boston Food Bank

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 14, 2011 7 Comments

Yesterday, #OWS Boston assaulted a female Coast Guard member in uniform: The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters. The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul...

Let me guess, UN will charge Israel with animal cruelty

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

It's been a while since I've been able to post a good Stuxnet story. Stuxnet, you will recall, is the malicious malware which has plagued the Iranian nuclear program and which is blamed -- without proof -- on Israel. The PJ Tatler notes that an Iranian attempt this...

Join the Big Government OWS crowdsourcing project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

Big Government is launching a crowdsourcing project for a cache of documents obtained regarding the organization and implementation of the Occupy Wall Street movement (via Ace, who is participating): In keeping with the new media notion of crowdsourcing–enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media when trawling through Sarah...

RI Gov. Linc Chafee gets to protect murderer from feds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 7 Comments

Back in June I posted about how RI Gov. Linc Chafee was refusing to turn Jason Wayne Pleau over to the feds because Pleau potentially was subject to the death penalty in connection with a murder committed on the steps of a federal bank. The feds never indicated...