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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

September Jobs Report released to skeptical reception

Posted by Anne Segal on October 05, 2012 19 Comments

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September jobs numbers showing the unemployment rate dropping to 7.8 percent, below 8 percent for the first time in 44 months. In addition, employers added 114,000 jobs in September. James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute referred to the report as...

Obama can celebrate the jobs report, the American people cannot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2012 22 Comments

Revenge of how the "unemployment rate" is calculated...

“the president’s restrained approach to communicating with the electorate”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2012 23 Comments

I wrote off Politico a long time ago. Remind me not to look at the Politico links you send. Sure, just like NYT and WaPo it's hard not to look and link, because it covers so much ground. But really, nonsense like this article written from three...

Roundup of the liberal meltdowns after debate

Posted by Anne Segal on October 05, 2012 18 Comments

The left must not have been mentally prepared for Obama's stuttering, stammering, deer-in-the-headlights, dismal debate performance Wednesday night. Because the reaction from the left was total meltdown. So I've compiled the best. Feel free to add your own in the comments. The meltdown that started it all:...

Bumper sticker in the defense of freedom is no vice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2012 1 Comment

From reader Larry in Miami, who took this photo on Lincoln Rd in South Beach. Larry is an expectant father, and further writes: That debate was so exciting! We were jumping up and down on the sofa LOL Please don't let the mother-to-be jump on the couch,...

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

Has Elizabeth Warren ever done pro bono litigation?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 41 Comments

I was just on the Silvio Canto Blog Talk Radio Show, and towards the end of our discussion, when I was talking about how Elizabeth Warren has worked on at least 22 court litigations since joining Harvard earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, it dawned...

Tears of the Clowns

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 23 Comments

From reader Tim, who writes: Not a bumper sticker but it should be ...

Branco Cartoon – A Chainsaw We Can Believe In

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 04, 2012 6 Comments

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Sorry AARP, you own Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 49 Comments

I have written numerous times about AARP's love affair with Obamacare, including recently disclosed documents showing coordination of strategy. Proponents of Obamacare often cited AARP's support as the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Few AARP members probably realize how big a role AARP...

A new cloak for media bias: the fact-check segment

Posted by Anne Segal on October 04, 2012 41 Comments

The media have fully deployed their defenses to protect President Obama after his dismal debate performance last night. So far two tactics have been employed, the first is the thinly veiled "fact check" attacks, while the other is calling Romney a bully for his take-charge...

Massachusetts BBO General Counsel has some explaining to do

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 32 Comments

Issued speculative "personal" opinion...

Debate Verdict: Still waiting for that defining moment

Posted by Joel Engel on October 04, 2012 84 Comments

I watched the debate without the company of the Web or Twitter, so I was surprised afterward to see the consensus that Romney had wiped the floor with Obama. I humbly disagree. He did well. He didn't do well enough. Last night was a major reason...

Branco Cartoon – End of an Error

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 04, 2012 6 Comments

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Elizabeth Warren’s white great grandfather shot an Indian

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 34 Comments

Elizabeth Warren still is not Cherokee. She never was. Her family lore is grossly exaggerated, in all likelihood by Warren herself not her parents. Yet whenever anyone questions this family lore, Warren acts like it is an attack on her family, thereby shutting down challenges to...

The morning after

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 54 Comments

I think it was a tremendous victory for Romney at the debate last night. Usual caveats about there being a month to go, he still may be trailing in some key states, etc. Romney needed to take his case directly to the American people because the media is...

The Leatherneck don’t give a …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2012 9 Comments

From reader and prior photographer Ryan: ...

MSNBC’s Matthews gives epic smackdown of Obama

Posted by Anne Segal on October 03, 2012 66 Comments

Have you learned to tune your t.v. immediately to MSNBC after any political event? If you haven't, you would have missed an epic rant tonight against Obama from *up tingles* Chris Matthews where he chastises Obama for simply "enduring" through the presidential debate: "I don't know...