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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

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...

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

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...

Can’t Obama just find someone to publicly flog and be done with it already?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 21 Comments

How sad. Our president has been reduced to chasing demons. Obama's recent phony jobs bill which raised $400 billion in taxes on everyone making over $200,000 (couples over $250,000) apparently did not whip the masses into a pitchfork and torch frenzy, because it targeted our doctors, local...

Saturday Night Card Game (“…what I got was the white guy…”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Some prominent white liberals, in this case Bill Maher and Michael Moore, are pretty quick to portray conservatives and particularly Tea Partiers as racist. But in fact, it is these white...

Does more wine always mean more problems?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 17, 2011 10 Comments

A headline on the BBC caught my eye today: The warming wine regions. [...

The Overblown Rhetoric Politically Expedient Misleadingly Named Not Job Saving or Creating Act of 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 6 Comments

The naming of legislative bills is getting out of hand. Instead of Stimulus V (or whatever we are up to), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Dem-Ill) has introduced the Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act, which she announced on Twitter: I doubt the Act will save anyone's...

“We thank you for helping to make our 17th wedding anniversary special”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 19 Comments

I love e-mails like this one from reader and Cornell grad Jim: Earlier this morning, you had "A World of Our Own" by the Seekers posted as the Video of the day. I asked my wife, a folkie in her youth, if she liked this song. After...

What possibly could go wrong with Obama’s LED light push?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 12 Comments

Much like windmills, Obama's energy plans for the country turn on "green" energy like LED lighting. From The White House website: Today’s Recovery Act in Action episode takes place in Durham, NC at Cree, Inc., America’s foremost producer of LED lighting. It’s a tale of many important...

If Hillary had been President …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 31 Comments

Inspired by today's bumper sticker post, let's all wonder how things might have been different had Hillary won the election (some say she did win the election, but that's another matter). For better and for worse. I'll start. We woud not be the weak horse in the Middle...

PUMAsticker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 5 Comments

I wonder how Hillary supporters are feeling these days. Not too good, I imagine. Thanks to reader Lee, who writes: Spotted this in traffic the other day. You can see the red light clearly, so I was being safe… I laughed when I saw this. And here in Minnesota,...

An ECB? No, WCB

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 16, 2011 10 Comments

A committee of economists have proposed "the creation of an International Monetary Policy Committee composed of representatives of major central banks that will report regularly to world leaders on the aggregate consequences of individual central bank policies." And who will run this? Why, a committee of...