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When They Say 'Globalize The Intifada' They Mean Like The New Orleans Terrorist Mass Murder

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): RFK, Jr. "Wants To Kill Our Kids"

Meet the Deflection: Schumer Denies Democrats Misled on Biden’s Decline

Tea Party Kippot!

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 21, 2011 5 Comments

Found the following at a local judaica shop called "The Mitzvah Store": This was the same shop I bought this at in '08 (I kinda wore it out): It did not appear that they were selling Obama kippot at that time. Maybe that's not a mitzvah....

The Palestinian bubble bursts again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 25 Comments

Why the Palestinians thought that a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S. was the way to go is inexplicable. Once again, they overplayed their hand. Did they really buy into Obama's rhetoric from 2009 in Cairo, or earlier this year about the Arab Spring? In part, a...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 65 Comments

Not able to get to posting this afternoon, so tell me what's on your minds. (Maybe, what do you think about bloggers from other blogs trolling the comment section here? Just a hypo, no one particular in mind.)...

Dissuasion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 13 Comments

Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: President Barack Obama told a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body, arguing against a proposed resolution calling...

Libertarianism: Lost in Translation

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 21, 2011 15 Comments

I get Presseurope, a roundup of translated opinion pieces from the EU, sent to my email. For the most part, the newsletter is incredibly informative. For instance, I had no idea that someone could honestly think that the Greeks deserved pity...

California State U. East Bay Has Woke 'Inclusive Language' Guide

Teachers in Minnesota Could Lose Licenses if They Don't Affirm LGBT Identities

Study Suggests Brown University Radicalized Students Following October 7th

Population Decline is Going to Hurt Higher Education

Historically Black University's Marching Band Scolded by Leftists for Agreeing to Perform at Trump Inauguration

Ron DeSantis Appoints Conservatives to University of West Florida Board

“I voted for him, I’m a Democrat, but Obama who?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 2 Comments

That's a line from this web ad released by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is capitalizing on the momentum from the NY-09 election: ...

More Turkish threats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 4 Comments

It's all about the natural gas and Erdogan's ego: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as "madness" on Wednesday, raising the stakes in a confrontation over potentially huge deposits in the eastern Mediterranean...

Wisconsin’s long, strange trip

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 19 Comments

Thanks to reader Heather, who writes: Seen on a parked Prius in Sister Bay, WI Oh, the comments I could make! In a follow up e-mail, Heather wrote: In forgot to tell you; on the other side of the bumper was the obligatory "coexist" bumper sticker! Comments, why comments about...

“… like Thomas Paine and other deep thinkers from before the revolutionary war…”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 21 Comments

I was pleased to meet a long time reader at my Tea Party presentation at the Cornell Club on Monday night, and even more pleased to get this e-mail afterwards: Professor Jacobson, It was a pleasure to meet you last night and hear your presentation. In my...

Can The Daily Caller survive?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 76 Comments

I haven't posted about the Twitter and blog war which broke out over a clip of Mike Tyson trash talking Sarah Palin in very explicit and violent sexual ways, although I did spotlight Dan Riehl's post about it as Post of the Day. The controversy is...

What’s past is present: “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 13 Comments

Figures. I was on the bus this morning heading back to Ithaca from my Tea Party talk at the Cornell Club in NYC when I spotted on my PDA a post by Ed Morrissey about an AP Fact Check debunking Obama's claim that secretaries pay higher taxes than...

One More Item For Far Left’s Ever-Expanding List Of Unapproved Behaviors That Murder People

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 15 Comments

First it was "targeting" congressional seats. Then, it was opposing gay marriage. Now, as The Other McCain reports, not publicizing one's (alleged) bisexuality. “I gave Ellen Page a decent chance to come out with the truth,” Topitschnig posted on V-Generations. “Two months ago, I mentioned her in my...

Newt Gingrich thinks it is the late 90s

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 20, 2011 8 Comments

and I wish he was right. The fledgling candidate announced in Iowa that he is going to propose a newer Contract with America: It “will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994,” he told an audience of about 40 people Monday night in Council Bluffs....

Ron Paul Buys California GOP Straw Poll

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 1 Comment

The Sacramento Bee reports that the Ron Paul campaign cut a $26,000 check to fund most of Ron Paul's votes in the recent California Straw poll at the California Republican Party convention. Participation cost around $100 per vote, and Paul won with 374 votes. Good. The...

Cornell Club NYC last night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 17 Comments

I gave a talk last night at the Cornell Club of New York City in Manhattan. The topic was the Tea Party Movement, and the thesis was: Professor Jacobson will argue that the Tea Party movement has been among the most influential and most positive forces...

Today’s Lawless Radicals Don’t Understand Civil Disobedience

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 6 Comments

As Althouse reports and Instapundit distills, concerning a violent protest: ...

OMG ’12

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 6 Comments

Thanks to reader Megan, who took this photo a few days agao in Pigeon Forge, TN: ...