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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

The problem with public sector employee unions

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 6 Comments

is pretty well set out in this article in The Providence Journal about intimidation of legislators who are considering reforms needed to save Rhode Island from fiscal collapse (see my post yesterday for background): Philip Keefe, the president of the second-largest state employees union, the R.I....

Stop campaigning like Democrats

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

I criticized Mitt Romney's campaign on the night of the Reagan Library debate for having a spokesman claim that Perry wanted to kill social security, linking to this tweet by John McCormack: The Romney campaign has been hitting similar themes for the past month. It's the...

I dare #OccupyWallStreet to try to #OccupyThisCar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 1 Comment

I would love to see the #OccupyWallStreet protesters try to occupy this guy's car. It's a fair bet that he's not a fan of #OccupyWallStreet protesters carrying the Soviet Flag in Philadelphia, taking dumps on police cars in New York, or chanting stuff about doing it...

Eliminationist Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 6 Comments

Democrats and media helpers like Paul Krugman have been weaving a Tea Party eliminationist narrative for years. As pointed out by James Taranto, it looks like Democrats finally have found an eliminationist narrative they can believe in: Related: Worst. #OccupyWallStreet. Advice. Ever....

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 33 Comments

What's new in the #OccupyWorld? The untold or at least not sufficiently told story here is the role of the Canadian firm AdBusters in organizing these protests. Your links and info. would help me in pulling that story together. I also found quite interesting and distrubing the...

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

Trump Following Through on Plan to Return American Education 'Back to the States'

Anti-Israel Protesters at Columbia U. Barge Into Classroom Donning Face Coverings

Mars Ain’t The Kind of Place To Raise Your Kids…

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 10, 2011 12 Comments

...and #OccupyWallStreet ain't so different. Its Kids Speak Out Day at #OccupyWallStreet! CNN reports: Organizers of the "leaderless resistance movement" also billed Monday as "Kids Speak Out" day, given that many schoolchildren are off for Columbus Day. "Even as banks got bailed out, American children have witnessed their parents...

A More Transgressive Post In A University Environment Than The Brave Rebels At #OccupyWallStreet

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 10, 2011 7 Comments

Happy Columbus Day! Where many of these protesters come from, this sort of talk is sticking it to The Man. Their sort of talk is conformity. Meanwhile, I recommend Walter Russell Mead's article explaining Columbus Day's origin as a holiday celebrating the contributions of immigrants and Catholics...

Did they really chant “you can have sex with animals or whatever”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 29 Comments

Is there anything #OccupyWallStreet protesters will not chant responsively? Apparently not. "Jump the shark" doesn't begin to describe this sequence of responsive chanting (I think they call it human microphone or whatever). We saw the responsive chanting at Occupy Atlanta, but this one takes the cake, as the...

Rhode Island’s Pension Cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 9 Comments

I know you know about Rhode Island's public sector employee pension problem, because I've posted about it so many times. But take a look at this chart which shows how household contributions to public sector pensions (state employees and teachers) is expected to climb to just over...

Counterweight Only Swing States In The General

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 10, 2011 14 Comments

I would like to propose an additional criterion for Operation Counterweight, for those that want to ensure a more conservative congress to go along with a Romney presidency (It's pretty clear that's the contingency that OC is preparing for, so let's talk in those...

The ignorance of the masses – Soviet flag at #OccupyPhiladelphia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 16 Comments

We've seen this before, at the celebration of Obama's victory in 2008, where students unfurled the Soviet flag in celebration. I chalked that up to profound historical ignorance, much like the chic wearing of Che Guevara and Mao t-shirts. The carrying of the Soviet flag at the Occupy...

#OccupyWallStreet: No masks for you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 6 Comments

You may not know it, but the internet hacking group Anonymous helped launch the Occupy Wall Street movement with a video released in late August:. During the initial protests in New York, protesters attempted to use masks similar to those used in the video, but were...

What do you mean “what if?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 7 Comments

When this sticker was put on the car, the owner probably figured things were not yet out of control. But after three weeks of #OccupyMadness, no question mark is needed. From Larry in Miami (who must have been stopped on the interstate when he took this...

Worst. #OccupyWallStreet. Advice. Ever.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 10 Comments

On October 7, self-styled Occupy Wall Street reporter Allison Burtch, the proponent of "progressive stack" speech control, gave this advice to the #OccupyWallStreet movement: Which goes to prove, don't wish too hard for something, you just might get it....

#OccupyFraud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 15 Comments

I've warned you not to take at face value the depictions of the protesters at the Occupy Wall Street rallies. Andrew Cole, the focus of a sympathetic New York Times article, turned out to be a pretty hard core solicialist (by his own description) and former...

In praise of 300,000 peaceful protesters in 350 locations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 14 Comments

No, not Occupy Wall Street or Occupy anything. That was the estimate by Nate Silver (then of 538 blog, now of The NY Times) of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties. Silver noted the upward adjustment of the Tea Party rally in Atlanta from...

PDS found Palin, Palin didn’t find PDS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2011 18 Comments

From Crawdad Hole written by frequent commenter myiq2xu: I guess the people like Andy Sullivan and his ilk are gonna be unhappy, because Sarah apparently has no intention of going away. I have to wonder what would have happened if they had just left her alone...