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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

Obama’s bad fiction

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 27 Comments

The Washington Examiner has an in-depth series doing the work the legacy media refuses to do, The Obama You Don't Know. Here is an excerpt from the Introduction: In an effort to get a clearer picture of Obama -- his shaping influences, his core beliefs, his political...

Tales of the tapes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 16 Comments

Obama attended an anti-Israel conference with Rashid Khalidi. The L.A. Times will not release the video. Obama was caught on an open mic calling federal employees "slugs." CBS News will not release the tape. Obama was caught on an open mic promising the Russians to be more flexible if re-elected, and CBS...

Libya, Land of Opportunity

Posted by Joel Engel on September 20, 2012 10 Comments

Nothing to see here, move along. The head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center told lawmakers on Wednesday that the deadly attack on Sept. 11 that claimed the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three aides was a "terrorist" strike. But the official, Matt Olsen,...

Upside and down

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 8 Comments

What used to be called hope and change. From reader Perry in Rome, NY: ...

New poll shows Scott Brown in lead

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 23 Comments

There have been several polls released recently, showing everything from a virtual dead heat to Elizabeth Warren ahead by low single digits. This was a contrast to pre-DNC polls, which showed Brown ahead by low single digits. Clearly Warren received a convention bounce, almost entirely from increased...

Trinity College Resurrects Debate About Removing Confederate Memorial Plaque From Campus

The Resurgence in American Antisemitism Comes From Our Education System

Arab Activist Group Plans K-12 Push

U. Alabama Professors Launch Appeal, Claiming That DEI Ban is 'Censorship'

MIT Professor Shot and Killed in His Boston Area Home

R.I.P. - Conservative Icon Norman Podhoretz Passes Away at Age 95

Time for Patriotic (Liberal) Millionaires to belly up to the buffet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 10 Comments

You do realize that there actualy are some Patriotic Millionaires, don't you? Guys like Warren Buffet and others who insist that people pay higher taxes, but don't take the chance to pay voluntarily. Like this guy, who turned out to be a plant by a group called...

#ForAll is the new #Fail

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 30 Comments

In case you have not heard, the Obama campaign started another stupid Twitter hashtag #ForAll. Twitchy has the backstory, and The Right Scoop picked up on this hideously creepy image tweeted by Obama campaign manager Jim Messina" It has sparked a wave of photoshopping as well as...

Chicago Alderman caves, will not block Chick-fil-A

Posted by Anne Segal on September 19, 2012 24 Comments

Chick-fil-A opponents declare, um, victory?...

“we would die for Debbie Wasserman Schultz”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 25 Comments

Go ahead, make our day....

Holy !!! Maine Senate race in play for Republicans

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 11 Comments

I've noted before that Maine may not be lost to Republicans after Olympia Snowe's retirement, as "Independent" former Governor Angus King was showing signs of having no clothes, metaphorically speaking of course. Maybe a glass jaw would be more appropriate. A relatively small dose negative advertising took a...

A Large Order of Fries, Please — and Make Them French

Posted by Joel Engel on September 19, 2012 43 Comments

Remember “Freedom Fries”? Over the last decade, the French were ridiculed by millions of Americans—including me—who didn’t have to wonder how Henry V prevailed at Agincourt with a much smaller force or why trees line the Champs Elysees (so the Germans can march in shade). But...

Maybe Romney answer was “inelegant” only because Mother Jones didn’t disclose that part of tape was missing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 60 Comments

See Update -- Corn explanation for non-disclosure contradicted by saved screen shots....

The American Commodus

Posted by Joel Engel on September 19, 2012 28 Comments

Apologies to Wikipedia: Whereas the reign of Marcus Aurelius George W. Bush had been marked by almost continuous warfare, that of Commodus Obama was comparatively peaceful in the military sense but was marked by political strife and the increasingly arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor...

Pick your talking point

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 4 Comments

From reader Cat: Seen in Sanford, Florida today. Who knew PT Cruisers could be such great rolling billboards? ...

Critical audio gap in “complete” Romney tape released by Mother Jones (Update – Corn responds, 1-2 minutes missing)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 72 Comments

Turns out tape cuts out part of controversial Romney answer...

The emerging scandal of what happened in Libya

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 21 Comments

It is plainly obvious that we have not been getting straight answers from Obama officials about what they knew and when they knew it about the dangers facing our consulate in Benghazi and throughout the region. It may be deception, or they may be so incompetent they...

Back to school as Chicago teachers vote to suspend strike

Posted by Anne Segal on September 18, 2012 7 Comments

The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates voted Tuesday afternoon to suspend the strike while refraining from ratifying the current contract yet. According to reports, the contract, which comes with an annual price of $74M, will be ratified in the coming weeks. The strike lasted seven...