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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

Spaniards take to streets in Occupy Congress protest

Posted by Anne Segal on September 25, 2012 11 Comments

Chanting "si, se puede," Occupy Congress protesters in Madrid, Spain, are in a standoff with police as their all-day protest of austerity measures has now continued into the evening. A livestream of the events shows clusters of police in riot gear attempting to hold back the...

No Fun Intended

Posted by Joel Engel on September 25, 2012 39 Comments

The mainstream press is determined to keep pounding the “Arab Spring” fiction the same way its man in Moscow, Walter Duranty, kept insisting Stalin was Socrates. Duranty had his own pathetic reasons for lying. Today’s reporters do it to prop up President Obama, because calling spring...

No, Mass. Board of Bar Overseers has not exonerated Elizabeth Warren

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 95 Comments

In response to my post yesterday, Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem, Michael Fredrickson, General Counsel of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, gave an interview with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (MLW) which widely is being cited as exonerating Warren. League of Ordinary Gentlemen and Above The Law...

Obama plays the Israel Firster card

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 23 Comments

Obama's comment about "noise" in the Middle East -- meant to refer to Israeli concerns about Iran -- has distracted from the most dangerous play in Obama's 60 Minutes interview Sunday. "Noise" was not the problem, it was that Obama set up Israeli "noise" as inconsistent with...

Branco Cartoon – Fair Fight

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 25, 2012 11 Comments

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Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

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

Me on radio talking Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 30 Comments

I was on two radio shows yesterday, the Michael Graham Show and Howie Carr Show in Boston, talking about Elizabeth Warren. I addressed some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings, as well as some of the incorrect defenses being raised (more on that later). Here are the...

And neither is anyone else

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 6 Comments

From reader Judy, who reports: Local elections --- We are vacationing on Cape Ann in Massachusetts and find that there are an almost equal number of Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren yard signs and bumper stickers -- so many of each that we gave up counting. National...

No Contest

Posted by Joel Engel on September 24, 2012 25 Comments

Peeing on dead terrorists and taking photos with their corpses will get you court-martialed. Dumping on America will get you elected President of the United States. And maybe reelected, too. Breitbart: Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking "Innocence...

A familiar refrain as Chicago musicians hit the picket line

Posted by Anne Segal on September 24, 2012 16 Comments

Here we go again. Another group of Chicagoans is going on strike. And this time, it's not the teachers. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike over the weekend to protest proposed three-year contract salary levels and an increase in the percent they pay of...

Sarah Palin lives in the mind of Julianne Moore

Posted by Anne Segal on September 24, 2012 29 Comments

Julianne Moore couldn't resist dinging Sarah Palin when she accepted her award for best actress in a miniseries or movie last night at the little-watched, but highly political Emmy's (there was a football game on). Moore's win was for playing the former vice presidential candidate in the...

“Green” products on the outs with cash-strapped Americans

Posted by Anne Segal on September 24, 2012 22 Comments

A study released today by GfK Research revealed sizable reductions in American consumers' willingness to pay a premium for so-called "green," or environmentally friendly products. The study was conducted as part of the research company's "Green Gauge Report," which measures consumer attitudes toward environmental issues. According to study...

Late-term Abortions of the Liberal Mind

Posted by Joel Engel on September 24, 2012 35 Comments

The always excellent Jonathan V. Last at The Weekly Standard has a remarkable piece about the corrupting influence of abortion on the left’s mindset—how elevating it to primacy status in the political arena has thoroughly distorted the thinking of otherwise smart people, forcing them to...

Republicans whom the Gods would destroy, they first give hope in Pennsylvania

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2012 31 Comments

The ancient "heathen proverb," often applied to those who attempt to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict, seems appropriate to Republican presidential candidates and Pennsylvania. New GOP-commissioned poll puts Romney 1 percentage point behind in Pa. In contrast to other recent surveys, a new Pennsylvania poll commissioned by the...

Scott Brown launches first ad on Elizabeth Warren Cherokee claim

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2012 17 Comments

Via The Boston Globe, Scott Brown has launched his first ad regarding Elizabeth Warren's claim to be Native American: The 30-second spot, called “Who knows?” features television reporters talking about Warren “identifying herself as Native American to employers. ...