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Biden's last-minute pardons "proved beyond any doubt that there really was a Biden crime family"

Trump's Merit-Based DEI Executive Order Is A Sledgehammer

Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Last night’s mistake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2011 60 Comments

The failure last night to pass the so-called Boehner bill was a mistake. I hope it will be corrected today. I don't disparage the intentions of the 25 or so who were not willing to vote for the bill. In fact, I agree with them as...

Community Disorganizer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2011 8 Comments

You probably paid for this, one way or another. Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Night of the living Boehner bill? // Update – No Vote Tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 11 Comments

Supposedly the bill will come to a vote tonight in the House, and Harry Reid plans to kill it soon after. Why doesn't the House just wait until the morning to move it over to the Senate (help here, can the House sit on it overnight...

Is the Boehner plan really “short-term?”

Posted by Michael Alan on July 28, 2011 7 Comments

The latest talking point on the left is that Speaker Boehner’s plan to raise the debt ceiling by $1 trillion with a roughly equitable amount of cuts is a “temporary,” “short term,” or a “band-aid” solution and, while the bill may not even reach the...

Circumcision still cuts it in San Francisco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 8 Comments

Couldn't resist the post title. Via L.A. Times: San Francisco residents will not be voting in November on whether to prohibit circumcision after all, according to a tentative ruling by a Superior Court judge made public Wednesday. Judge Loretta M. Giorgi ordered the city’s director of elections to...

Sonoma State University Makes Massive Cuts and Ends Athletics

Georgetown U. Looking to Hire Transgender Studies Literature Professor

U.S. Dept. of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI Policies

Ohio College Students Protest Bill That Would Ban DEI Policies

Trump Following Through on Plan to Return American Education 'Back to the States'

Anti-Israel Protesters at Columbia U. Barge Into Classroom Donning Face Coverings

Flash Poll – After Harry Reid kills the Boehner bill, the House should ….

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 19 Comments

Harry Reid, still reeling from his failure to kill the surge in Iraq, is planning to kill the Boehner bill tonight if the bill passes the House today (update -- as of 4:30 not clear the bill will pass the House): "Today the House of Representatives will...

Debt Ceiling Tweet of the Day – The Iowahawk Redemption

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 2 Comments

Yesterday @JazzShaw walked away with the Debt Ceiling Tweet of the Day, and the challenge to @Iowahawkblog to "man up" was left unanswered. But today Iowahawk takes the prize (even though the day is young): ...

New MSNBC Host Sharpton Recently Vowed Never To Criticize Obama

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 28, 2011 5 Comments

Is Al Sharpton too in the tank for Obama to be appropriate even for MSNBC? Glenn Greenwald, who, like a stopped clock, is correct on rare occasions, notes: I assumed it was hyperbole -- until I watched the video and read the transcript of the Sharpton interview. The 60 Minutes segment was...

Redistricting Blues

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 5 Comments

I posted a few weeks ago about the status of redistricting in various states, and how Republicans at the state level were using their power wisely to solidify the current hold on power in the House by creating a greater number of safe seats rather than...

Thomas Sowell on Boehner Bill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 23 Comments

Making points similar to what I have made, this is not the last round. The Boehner bill for all its flaws puts the runners on base with another batter up in a few months. The Boehner bill, assuming it passes the House today, likely will be rejected...

Complete Refudiation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2011 9 Comments

Thanks to reader Randy who writes: No doubt where this guy stands. Just spotted in the Herndon/Reston area of northern VA, just outside a medical facility. ...

He knows what he’s doing, “he got bin Laden”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2011 17 Comments

I knew this was coming. It only was a matter of time. During a Great American Panel on Hannity tonight John Fund and Hannity were hammering the point that Obama doesn't know how to negotiate in good faith. One of them mentioned Donald Trump's criticism that...

Jane Hamsher is right about S&P playing politics

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2011 19 Comments

Not often that I praise Jane Hamsher, but she is right that S&P improperly has injected itself into the political process: Standard and Poors is evidently meeting with high-stakes gamblers and letting them know where to place their bets as they manipulate the global economy. But they...

Pence – Keep open mind on Boehner plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2011 14 Comments

It would be very hard to call Mike Pence a RINO or a sellout, so when he says to take the Boehner plan seriously, I think it's worth a listen: Remember, it's the end game that matters....

Debt Ceiling Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2011 3 Comments

The day is young, but I think this one by Jazz Shaw is going to be hard to top: Looks like it's time for @iowahawkblog to man up....

Our Obama problem far exceeds our spending problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2011 28 Comments

Mitch McConnell had it right a couple of weeks ago when he made the following statement: A “real solution” to U.S. fiscal problems isn’t possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, heightening the rhetoric surrounding the...

How long can Romney wait?