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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

2002 – Elizabeth Warren charged $675 per hour as special legal consultant

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 74 Comments

Elizabeth Warren and her supporters have mounted an argument that what she did at her office in Cambridge for private litigants was not the practice of law. Warren herself, when confronted by a reporter after it was revealed she had no Massachusetts law license, claimed she...

Branco Cartoon – While the World Burns

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 26, 2012 8 Comments

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Republicans mount attack against election fraud within Chicago

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 10 Comments

A group of Cook County Republicans have had it with the election fraud and Democratic machine politics of Chicago. They're mounting an effort to fight back in one seemingly small, but in actual fact quite powerful, way. An effort led by suburban mom Sharon Meroni to...

Egyptian activist arrested for spray-painting over controversial pro-Israel ads

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 58 Comments

An Egyptian activist, Mona Eltahawy, was arrested yesterday in a New York City subway station as she was in the middle of spray-painting over pro-Israeli ads--and seeming to partially paint over a Manhattan mom who tried to shield the ads by standing in front of...

Candidate who used High Cheekbones and Pow Wow Chow Indian stereotypes upset at people who used Indian stereotypes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 15 Comments

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Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

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

The whales can wait

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 1 Comment

Save the Freedoms! From Linda, who took photos of this vehicle in the Costco parking lot in Franklin, TN: ...

Elizabeth Warren supporters should spare the sanctimony considering they covered for her ethnic fraud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 31 Comments

A handful of Scott Brown supporters including a couple of staffers mocked Elizabeth Warren's phony claim to be Native American, a claim she maintains in the face of all evidence, based on grossly exaggerated (at best) supposed family lore. Warren keeps saying that kids don't ask...

Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem on Fox News today

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 60 Comments

It's always interesting to see how an issue you are intimately involved in plays out when it makes it to national broadcasts. Because of the time pressure on major shows, everything has to get drilled down, and sometimes things get lost. The issue of Elizabeth Warren's license...

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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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...