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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

We already were headed for a downgrade because of too much, not too little, debt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2011 25 Comments

Yesterday Moody's issued a warning of a possible debt downgrade if the debt ceiling dispute created a situation in which the U.S. defaulted, even though Moody's acknowledged that "the risk is low." Obama is using the possible downgrade as a major bargaining chip in negotiations with Republicans, threatening...

Eric Cantor gets the Bibi Netanyahu treatment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 24 Comments

March 25, 2010: But Mr Obama was less inclined to be so conciliatory. He immediately presented Mr Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands designed both to the end the feud with his administration and to build Palestinian confidence ahead of the resumption of peace talks....

“Don’t call my bluff,” the president said.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 20 Comments

Per ABC News, Obama stormed out of a meeting with Eric Cantor and others when Republicans suggested a short term solution to the debt ceiling dispute because the negotiations were still far apart: "Don't call my bluff," the president said. "I am not afraid to veto...

The Plum Line Guys Are Right About Jews and Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 31 Comments

As you know, I'm highly skeptical of polls showing Jews turning against Obama in substantial numbers. So, in what may be a first, I'll have to agree with the Plum Line guys, Greg Sargent and Adam Serwer, about Jews and Obama. Jews are not going to vote against...

Waiting for the Prize Fight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 10 Comments

The Billion Dollar Candidate is counting his dollars like he always does, while telling you how to spend yours. I don't know about you, but I want these primaries to be over before they've begun, because I feel like we're watching the down card fights, and we're waiting...

House Report Says Top Universities ‘Refused’ to Stop Campus Antisemitism

Campus Anti-Israel Protests Declined From Last Spring to This Fall

Racist Graffiti Found at Rhodes College Turns Out to be a Hoax

Indiana University’s 'Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity' Loses Funding

Idaho Board of Education Passes Resolutions Requiring Closure of DEI Offices

Harvard Law Enrolls Fewer Black Students After SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action

Keeping hope alive

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 29 Comments

Isn't that what this all is about at this moment in time? We just have to last another 18 months and win the presidential election, and then our long national nightmare will come to an end. Until then, we're just trying to limit the damage. Until he...

Good News!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 4 Comments

A reminder from Bill Kristol (h/t commenter Mike Hinton) But even if [the McConnell plan] created a bad news day yesterday for Republicans, the good news is that it’s already yesterday’s news. It’s House Republicans—not Senate minority leader McConnell—who will control tomorrow’s news. It is dawn yet? It was just a...

Call his bluff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 35 Comments

Obama is bluffing. He so desperately wants to keep spending at high levels and to increase taxes that he is threatening to withhold social security checks from recipients. Republicans should take a reasonsble deal if it is available. A structure of scaling back spending, even if...

Obama fails to match Bush fundraising / Update – 2Q v. 3Q

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 10 Comments

You will not see that headline. Instead you will see headlines about Obama's blowout fundraising of $86 million combined for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Of that amount, $47 million was for Obama's campaign. But as The NY Times notes deep down in its article...

Just say NOPE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 3 Comments

Sent by reader Karl who snapped the photo in Rochester Hills, MI, and who writes: I'm a long-time reader but I haven't registered for comments or anything; however, I was behind this bumper sticker and didn't recall ever seeing it on your list before. Thought you...

Someone please tell me it’s darkest before the dawn

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 34 Comments

Because the more I think about Mitch McConnell's proposal, the darker things are looking. I tried in my initial post to be fair and balanced, and not simply reactive. But it's growing on me, and not in a good way. The good news is that 98% of...

Is it worth $2.5 trillion to defeat Obama?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 23 Comments

Below is the video in which Mitch McConnell sets forth his proposal, and here is the WaPo analysis: McConnell’s proposal would have the effect of forcing Obama and congressional Democrats to take full responsibility for raising the debt limit, and require Democrats to vote on the...

Nice to see

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 1 Comment

Someone who after 9 years is not suffering from Blogger Burnout or any other known blogging disorder. We all should be so lucky. ...

Mitch McConnell Sets The 2012 Narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 28 Comments

I have praised Mitch McConnell before, when he was fighting an almost impossible battle to hold the line in the Senate on a variety of issues when the Democrats had a filibuster-proof or near filibuster-proof majority. Now McConnell may have set the narrative for 2012 on...

Prof. Susan Feinberg: Proud to have confronted Paul Ryan / Update – Audio added

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 60 Comments

Susan Feinberg, the Rutgers Professor who confronted Paul Ryan at a D.C. restaurant over the cost of a bottle of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table, appeared on the Dom Giordano radio show in Philadelphia moments ago (h/t to a commenter). I hope to...

Obama throws Democrats’ Mediscare campaign off a cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2011 8 Comments

Almost the entire Democratic Party theme for the 2012 elections at every level is that evil Republicans want to destroy "Medicare as we know it," whereas Democrats want to save the program by raising taxes on the "rich." As Michael Alan documented here, groups behind the "Mediscare"...

You must not have received the memo