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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

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: ...

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

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: ...

If you only read

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 11 Comments

one op-ed today, I hope it is Mary O'Grady's column in the Wall Street Journal: "Big Labor's Yanqui Imperialism." On the face of it, the National Labor Relations Board's effort to block a new Boeing plant slated for the right-to-work state of South Carolina seems like...

The Drudge of School Choice

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 6 Comments

Today marks the launch of ChoiceMedia.tv, the news hub of school choice activism in the U.S. I'm really excited to see the site under the direction of Bob Bowdon, director of The Cartel Movie and contributor to the Onion News Network. Hopefully, the site will provide a...

BlueCheddar melts, pulls video confession of “beer pouring” guy (but the internet never forgets)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2011 18 Comments

BlueCheddar is a Wisconsin "progressive" website that posted a video confession by an anti-Republican stalker who poured beer over a Republican legislator. The stalker has been charged with disorderly conduct, but the conduct potentially was a felony battery under Wisconsin Statutes 940.20(4): (4) Battery to public officers. Whoever intentionally causes...

How wide is the al Qaeda net?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 9 Comments

I came across an interesting post this morning on the Journal's Numbers Guy blog. I think we all have a tendency to think of al Qaeda as a large force, certainly they've been difficult to track down, but how big is the organization? From the print...

Hay, that’s pretty funny

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Danelle who writes: We took this one this afternoon in Wise County, just west of Dallas. Wise County is one of Texas' hard hit counties from both drought and wildfire, the most recent being last week. Many ranchers in the area are hard put...

Time for an invervention, Obama’s on a tax hike bender

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 32 Comments

Five days ago Obama unveiled a "jobs plan" which included tax hikes of $467 billion, $400 billion of which were on individuals making $200,000 (and couples making $250,000). Tomorrow Obama will unveil a "deficit reduction plan" which will include $1.5 trillion in new taxes including an extra tax...

Et tu, Chicago Tribune?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 13 Comments

Steve Chapman, a member of the Editorial Board of The Chicago Tribune, Why Obama should withdraw (h/t HeyTammyBruce): When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, his slogan was "Morning in America." For Barack Obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine. The sputtering economy is about...

‘Millionaire Tax’ Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 11 Comments

This seems like pretty good advice to the GOP, although the pathetic political ploy needs to be called for what it is (as I did last night): Update: Time for an invervention, Obama’s on a tax hike bender...

Call Abu Bluff’s bluff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 7 Comments

Carl at Israel Matzav has given Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, the nickame "Abu Bluff." The trip by Abbas to the U.N. this week ostensibly to obtain recognition of a Palestinian state is another bluff. Abbas doesn't even have the support of his own people, as Hamas which controls...

Monstrous lies unfolding at the U.N. this week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 26 Comments

One lie is that there is a historically and ethnically distinct Palestinian people, but that lie is so well established that it is beyond argument now. Even if Palestinian nationalism was a fiction created in the last few decades as a tool against Israel, that horse has...

I am against repeal of D.A.D.D.D.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 9 Comments

Thanks to reader and commenter suhrmesa, who took this photo yesterday, and writes: From Boise, ID… saw this and thought of you and Ithaca. When in Ithaca, walk the parking lot at Wegman's and enjoy those that are "screaming to be heard" via bumper stickers. Still, my...