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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Romney cuts commercial for Mia Love

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 11 Comments

Mia Love is in a tight race in Utah-04 against Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson. While recent polling had Love slightly ahead, the race is expected to be close. As a Democrat in a majority Republican district, Matheson tries to keep quiet about his support of Obama. Matheson...

Maybe Mass Senate candidates know something we don’t about polling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 24 Comments

In the past two days two wildly differing polls have been released, one showing Scott Brown up 2, the other showing Elizabeth Warren up by 7. Polling from last week showed Warren ahead by 5. AP via Boston Globe reports: A new poll is giving an edge...

What might a Barack Obama Business District look like?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 22 Comments

Obama wants to create a Department of Business in his second term. So what might an Obama Business District look like? From a reader: After a day of fun and frolic in St. Louis we drove back to Illinois to discover East St. Louis has renamed its BUSINESS...

Sign of the Obamapocalypse? Up just 6 in Oregon

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 10 Comments

Obama won Oregon in 2008 by 16 points. This year his lead is down to just 6 points, per The Oregonian: President Barack Obama holds a relatively narrow lead of six points over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Oregon, according to a new poll conducted for The Oregonian. Obama's...

Oh, those refugees whose property was taken

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 8 Comments

More on the inconvenient history of refugees in the Middle East. From the Times of Israel, Egyptian authorities reportedly seize 1.7 million documents proving Jewish ownership of assets in Cairo: Egyptian authorities confiscated some 1.7 million documents reportedly proving Jewish ownership of land and assets in Cairo....

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

MoveOn sick-in-the-headness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 38 Comments

Just when you thought it could not get any worse. MoveOn.org and Michael Moore have produced a video which is beyond description. Can we just declare MoveOn a mental illness so it can be covered (under Obamacare, of course). Video (h/t NRO) NSFW (language warning): Makes the creepy singing...

Big Government straw men not blown away by Sandy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 22 Comments

This was all so predictable. The water has not yet receded in much of the storm damaged region, yet the big government straw man arguments survived and are flourishing. On CBS this morning a correspondent (don't remember his name) was asked by one of the anchors what...

Let my people go

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 7 Comments

From Leslie Eastmen of Temple of Mut, and contributor at College Insurrection: I just came back from a Jousting Tournament with my family. As we were leaving the parking lot, fate had it that my husband's eyes alighted upon a car with bumper stickers featuring Romney/Ryan,...

If Nate Silver cannot be wrong, how can he be right?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 46 Comments

I have no implicit pro- or anti-Nate Silver bias. He was a journolist and in 2008 got some secret help with his predictions from the Obama campaign, but since joining The NY Times I think he has raised his game. I find the whole focus on Silver and...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 8

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 29, 2012 5 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 8 days to go. Today’s overseas Empty Chair photo comes to us from Scott in Estonia who writes, "President...

Black Chicagoans rage against the Obama, the leadership, the machine

Posted by Anne Segal on October 29, 2012 30 Comments

A startling video released today by Jeremy Segal ("Rebel Pundit") of Breitbart.com shows inner-city Black Chicagoans expressing outrage against President Obama, union racism, and the Democratic Machine, whom they say no longer represent their agenda. Further, when money is directed at their community, it is funneled through...

Zero Plus Zero Equals Resentment in Liberal Math

Posted by Joel Engel on October 29, 2012 32 Comments

In Slate, the usually foolish Matt Yglesias holds true to form by demonstrating why we shouldn’t allow liberals to make public policy based on what they consider fairness. He points to the “mega-yacht” that Steve Jobs commissioned long before his death as “a valuable reminder...

HuffPo home page — Obama underwater

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 12 Comments

Thanks to reader Brian for sending me this screen capture. I went to HuffPo thinking this must be a Photoshop, but no, it's real. It's one of a series of photos of Hurricane Sandy which scroll on HuffPo's homepage today. Brian writes: Maybe even they know Obama is...

Shift in Massachusetts: Scott Brown leading while Elizabeth Warren’s campaign finances come under scrutiny

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 19 Comments

A new Boston Globe poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows Scott Brown is making a successful October push in Massachusetts to keep his seat in the United States Senate. The Globe now has Brown leading 47-45. The poll is a reversal...

One word: Creepy

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 39 Comments

I have one suggestion for the Obama campaign and supporters thereof: Moratorium on the creepy campaign ads with choirs of children singing about how much of a savior President Obama is. There have been a few questionable ones in the past but this one, I think, reaches...

Politico polls and projections see two different futures for Obama

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 23 Comments

Newly released data from the weekly Battleground Poll sponsored by Politico and George Washington University has come up with an interesting set of numbers this week. The first part of the data taken in represents a poll of likely voters from last week. Here, Obama has...

My First Time will be nothing like Lena Dunham’s First Time

Posted by 0387erp on October 29, 2012 27 Comments

“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy … someone who really cares about and understands women.” – Lena Dunham This week marks an especially repugnant page in President Obama’s catalog of attempts to woo young female...