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Trump Executive Orders: The End of DEI as We've Known It, But Not The End of DEI

CIA Reverses Itself, Acknowledging COVID Likely Originated from a Wuhan Lab

Anti-Israel Politics Trump Academic Freedom Under AAUP Professor Association's New President

Gilad Shalit

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 21 Comments

An Israeli soldier who has been in prison in Gaza for 5 years without so much as a visit by the Red Cross. Apparently a deal has been reached for his release. The terms are not yet known, but the Israeli cabinet is voting on it tonight (Israel...

No personal space left

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 13 Comments

Union-backed protesters plan on protesting outside the buildings of several billionaires in New York City, including trying to present "checks" representing the funds the billionaires will save if a New York State surcharge on the wealth expires later this year. Make no mistake, this is not...

Wisconsin, May 2012 – Be there

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 13 Comments

The mother of all recall battles is set to launch on November 15, when the 60 day clock starts for Wisconsin Democrats to obtain over 540,206 signatures on recall petitions against Governor Scott Walker. If suffiicient signatures are obtained (and I assume they will), the recall election...

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...

UC-Irvine Hosting Musical Performance About White Privilege

Anti-Israel Protester Suing U. Chicago for Kicking Him Out of Campus Housing

Trump's Orders on DEI Policies Reveal How This Ideology Took Over the University of Colorado

Rutgers University Cancels DEI Programs Based on Trump's Executive Orders

Marco Rubio Calls for Revocation of Visas for Foreign Students Who Support Hamas

Syracuse University Prof Worries That if Trump Limits LGBT Topics, She Won't Have Anything to Teach About

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...

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....