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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

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded scientific denier

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

There is a lesson here, it's that we cannot allow science to become religion, and must always question scientific authority particularly when it is used for political purposes. From The NY Times (emphasis mine): Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday...

Can’t Stop The Signal – UW-Stout Caves

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 7 Comments

Facing legal action and Internet backlash, University of Wisconsin-Stout has decided to retract their decision to force a professor to take down controversial Firefly and anti-fascism posters: In retrospect, however, it is clear that the removal of the posters - although done with the best intent...

Rats Good, Pilgrims Bad

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Sums up the bumper stickers of this West L.A. lefty's Prius. Of course, thanks to experimentation on rats and other animals, we aren't dying in droves at young ages like the pilgrims. ...

The entire mainstream media will jump on this to impugn the entire #OccupyWallStreet movement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

Just like they did when they found a crazy sign at a Tea Party rally. On the other hand, it might be dismissed as a mere aberration, with serious caution urged not to use the actions of a few to impugn an entire movement. (h/t comment by myiq2xu) Update: More of...

Obama “Jobs Bill” Headline of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

... Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill Do you need to know anything else? If so, the article is here....

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

Mass. Senate Debate Tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

I'll be watching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Debate tonight at 7 p.m. because it will be the first appearance of Elizabeth Warren. I haven't decided what to do in the race, despite the overwhelming reader vote to support Brown, but I'll be listening. The debate will...

Fast And Furious Roundup: Holder Lied, People Died?

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

I haven't covered this scandal in a while, so here is a roundup of where this story has been going. Who knows, it might even get serious enough that the MSM will take a break from looking under rocks in middle-of-nowhere-Texas for dirt on Republicans...

NY Times’ poster child for #OccupyWallStreet not what he seems (Update: Cole responds)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 32 Comments

The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures. The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job: “I think a good deal...

“I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 9 Comments

So e-mails reader and commenter KC_MRBB KC_MRBB, with a link to the video below, referring to my prior post The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks from October 27, 2008. Related: The Revolt of the Kulaks Has Begun...

What Democracy Looks (And Sounds) Like

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 11 Comments

A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is "This is what democracy looks like!" - a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people. Yes, these protests are examples of...

Iranian Pastor, Facing Death For Apostasy, Now Facing Death For “Zionism”

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 3 Comments

Last week, I reported that an Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, was to be sentenced to death for apostasy. Now, the political branches in Iran are upping the stakes, intending to execute him for being a Zionist threat to national security instead. We should all remember, as Obama...

After the love has gone

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 4 Comments

Something happened along the way. Now yesterday is all they have. Thanks to reader Allen, who writes: Found on the street in Oakland, CA - looks like disillusion has truly set in. ...

Babi Yar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 9 Comments

Today marked the 70th commemoration of the Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jews in September 1941 at the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar. I visited the site in 1978, at which point a monument had been erected at the site. Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem, which was not officially...

A hefty serving of snark

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 03, 2011 13 Comments

As some of you may recall, Meghan McCain started a twitter war with Prof. Jacobson after she misread both the content and the author of a post earlier this year. As a consequence, I've avoided taking jabs at McCain the younger from fear that she might...

Wake Up Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 24 Comments

#OccupyWallStreet is organized agitprop designed to deflect attention from the Obama administration's failings onto "Wall Street," although many of the participants don't understand how they are being used. The Washington Post now is fully aboard Team Obama, doing its best to take down Rick Perry this...

The College Bubble Party

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 03, 2011 22 Comments

The "Occupy Wall Street" craze has spread to major U.S. cities. From what I can tell, the backbone of this movement are college-aged students like myself who blame corporations for their misfortunes, particularly college affordability and it's consequences on employment. They should be angry at the government for...

Cain’s mistake?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 36 Comments

In tagging Rick Perry with the "painted-over rock" allegation without first learning the facts? Yes, I think so. It certainly is fine to point out that the name was offensive, but to suggest that Perry somehow was responsible was a bridge too far (transcript via MVOPOV): WALLACE:...