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Video Released of ICE Agent's Perspective of Minneapolis Shooting

Kathy Hochul, Zohran Mamdani Announce Billions in New Spending on 'Free' Childcare Program

Mamdani and the “Woke Jihad”

Jackson Jr resigns on the eve of Thanksgiving

Posted by Anne Segal on November 21, 2012 24 Comments

The astoundingly unsurprising news that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned today reveals far more about the sorry state of our local Chicago democratic leadership than the trite and pathetic story of Jackson Jr.'s downfall. Jackson Jr., son of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has been AWOL...

Israel and Hamas agree to Obama-sponsored truce

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 14 Comments

Israel and Hamas, via Egypt and the U.S., have reached a "truce." Via AP: Israel and the Hamas militant group reached a cease-fire agreement Wednesday to end the fiercest round of fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an...

Fordham College Democrats stood by Coulter appearance as Republicans ditched her

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 16 Comments

On Monday, I will have an in-depth account of the circumstances leading up to the cancellation of Ann Coulter's appearance at Fordham. In the course of the investigation I have spoken to numerous students involved in the events, and one interesting fact has emerged which I...

We are witnessing the media’s test run to elect a Democrat in 2016

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 54 Comments

The "crazy-ing" of Marco Rubio blossoms...

Hamas fires rocket from hospital and blows up bus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 15 Comments

Some important developments. Two journalists have confirmed that Palestinians have fired a long-range rocket at Israel from next to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Neither journalist, of course, made it the headline, it was just mentioned in passing. The first was Jodi Rudgren of The New York Times...

Judicial Watch Sues MA School System for Violating Free Speech Rights of Fired Administrator

American Historical Association Leadership Vetoes Anti-Israel Resolutions Brought by Members

Chicago Teachers Union Forced to Delete Tweet With Embarrassing Typo

Texas Launches Website to Field Complaints About State Colleges and Universities

Trump State Department has Revoked 8,000 Student Visas

U. Washington Researcher Appears to Wish Death on Conservatives: ‘May There be Tyler Robinsons for You All’

Rebel without a pause

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 4 Comments

From Carroll, sent yesterday: Rebel ...

Chicago anti-Israel protesters cheer Iran’s example of “democracy and justice”

Posted by Anne Segal on November 20, 2012 14 Comments

A counter protest directed at a "Stand with Israel" rally held in downtown Chicago Tuesday chanted that Israel should "end the occupation now." The counter group on around 30, a coalition of pro-Palestinian forces along with Communist Party USA's Andy Thayer and others, accused Israel of...

One wonders

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 15 Comments

Israel reportedly has been under cyber attack by Anonymous, although the lethality of the attacks is questioned: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared with...

Israel squanders initiative waiting for Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 24 Comments

Israel caught Hamas off guard. While Hamas reasonably could have expected retaliation for stepped-up missile fire, it did not anticipate the nature of the retaliation -- the assassination of the head of Hamas' military wing and the bombing of numerous long-range missile depots. The lesson of Lebanon...

Utah-04 final canvass results (Update – Love loses by 768 votes)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 14 Comments

After election day in Utah-04, Democrat Jim Matheson was ahead of Mia Love by 2,646 votes. But there were approximately 72,000 provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted. The results for the final canvass are being released today. We will update. Thx @nra and @uschamber 4...

David Rouzer and Mike McIntyre separated by 655 votes in NC-7, recount to ensue

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on November 20, 2012 0 Comments

In the last remaining Operation Counterweight race to be decided, Republican challenger David Rouzer trails incumbent Mike McIntyre by the narrowest of margins. Of the more than 300,000 votes cast in North Carolina's 7th Congressional District, McIntyre leads Rouzer by just 655 votes. The Rouzer campaign released...

No, conservative media did not lose the election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 44 Comments

I bet you didn't realize that conservative media was to blame for Mitt Romney's loss by about 3% of the total vote, much closer in swing states. That's the story line at Buzzfeed Politics, How The Conservative Media Lost The Election. It is a story with barely a dissenting...

Mideast at war, Barack Obama hit hardest

Posted by Joel Engel on November 20, 2012 18 Comments

So says Paul Richter in the Los Angeles Times: The increasingly bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is threatening the Obama administration's plans to reinvigorate its Middle East diplomacy, creating new obstacles across the region as the president prepares for his second...

Allen West concedes race

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 32 Comments

Early this morning Allen West released a statement conceding the race after his attempt to obtain a full recount lost any realistic chance. Based on his team's analysis there were not enough disputed or suspicious votes to overcome the approximately 2000 vote lead. As indicated yesterday from...

Give me Liberty, or give me Impeachment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 6 Comments

We still have choices. From Linda, taken at the Lowe's parking lot in Nashville: ...

Media study confirms what you already knew

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2012 11 Comments

Obama Enjoys Surge in Positive Coverage the Last Week of the Race; Attention to Romney Drops: In the final week of the 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama enjoyed his most positive run of news coverage in months, according to a new study by the Pew Research...

Romney 47% party host may rescue thousands of union jobs at Hostess

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2012 17 Comments

As noted the other day, Hostess is seeking lidquidation of its operations rather than trying to emerge out of bankruptcy as a going concern because it could not negotiate the union concessions it said it needed. But there may be a White Knight on the Horizon,...