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Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders "Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish"

Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Members of Pro-Palestine Group Arrested for Allegedly Plotting New Year's Eve Bombings

Crossroads spending big in Wisconsin to defeat extremist Tammy

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 22 Comments

Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS PAC has just committed $1.2M to helping help former governor Tommy Thompson defeat his democratic opponent in the Wisconsin race for U.S. Senate. This was in additional to prior spends of $500,000 and $961,000, and puts his group's contibutions at over...

First Rahm then Ahmadinejad, now you can ask Farrakhan questions tonight

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 9 Comments

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in town to follow President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly, met with Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan along with peace activists and other members of "Abrahamic religions" on Tuesday evening. While both the U.S. and Israel delegations, among others, boycotted...

Elizabeth Warren listed Cambridge as “primary practice location” with Texas Bar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 79 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has touted that she has been a member of the Texas Bar for a long time, along with New Jersey. We knew that Warren currently was inactive in Texas, but didn't know for how long. Also, there has been a mystery as to why...

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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Prof Claims Georgia College and State U. Fired Him for Voicing Concerns About Student Plagiarism

Law Professor Josh Blackman Resigns From Heritage Foundation Over Antisemitism Controversy

Professor Jonathan Turley Reacts to News About Lack of Republican Profs at Yale

Gender Studies Program at U. Minnesota Hands Out Whistles to Alert People of ICE Activity

Brown University Students and Staff Claim Security Worries Were Brushed Off for Years

Elementary School Principal in Pennsylvania Under Fire Over Antisemitic Voicemail Message

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

Consider this an alternative headline for last night's post. ...

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...