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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

Oh, those refugees whose property was taken

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 8 Comments

More on the inconvenient history of refugees in the Middle East. From the Times of Israel, Egyptian authorities reportedly seize 1.7 million documents proving Jewish ownership of assets in Cairo: Egyptian authorities confiscated some 1.7 million documents reportedly proving Jewish ownership of land and assets in Cairo....

MoveOn sick-in-the-headness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 38 Comments

Just when you thought it could not get any worse. MoveOn.org and Michael Moore have produced a video which is beyond description. Can we just declare MoveOn a mental illness so it can be covered (under Obamacare, of course). Video (h/t NRO) NSFW (language warning): Makes the creepy singing...

Big Government straw men not blown away by Sandy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 22 Comments

This was all so predictable. The water has not yet receded in much of the storm damaged region, yet the big government straw man arguments survived and are flourishing. On CBS this morning a correspondent (don't remember his name) was asked by one of the anchors what...

Let my people go

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 7 Comments

From Leslie Eastmen of Temple of Mut, and contributor at College Insurrection: I just came back from a Jousting Tournament with my family. As we were leaving the parking lot, fate had it that my husband's eyes alighted upon a car with bumper stickers featuring Romney/Ryan,...

If Nate Silver cannot be wrong, how can he be right?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 46 Comments

I have no implicit pro- or anti-Nate Silver bias. He was a journolist and in 2008 got some secret help with his predictions from the Obama campaign, but since joining The NY Times I think he has raised his game. I find the whole focus on Silver and...

Graduate and Professional Students at Yale Demand Greater Campus Security

Penn Scientists Claim Recent Winter Storm is Evidence of Global Warming

Ohio University Students Stage Walkout to Protest ICE

Texas A&M University Cancelling Women and Gender Studies Program

Boston University Course Encourages Students to Interpret Meals as Expressions of Gender Identity

MIT Allegedly Sidestepping DEI Ban in Hiring Practices

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 8

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 29, 2012 5 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 8 days to go. Today’s overseas Empty Chair photo comes to us from Scott in Estonia who writes, "President...

Black Chicagoans rage against the Obama, the leadership, the machine

Posted by Anne Segal on October 29, 2012 30 Comments

A startling video released today by Jeremy Segal ("Rebel Pundit") of Breitbart.com shows inner-city Black Chicagoans expressing outrage against President Obama, union racism, and the Democratic Machine, whom they say no longer represent their agenda. Further, when money is directed at their community, it is funneled through...

Zero Plus Zero Equals Resentment in Liberal Math

Posted by Joel Engel on October 29, 2012 32 Comments

In Slate, the usually foolish Matt Yglesias holds true to form by demonstrating why we shouldn’t allow liberals to make public policy based on what they consider fairness. He points to the “mega-yacht” that Steve Jobs commissioned long before his death as “a valuable reminder...

HuffPo home page — Obama underwater

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 12 Comments

Thanks to reader Brian for sending me this screen capture. I went to HuffPo thinking this must be a Photoshop, but no, it's real. It's one of a series of photos of Hurricane Sandy which scroll on HuffPo's homepage today. Brian writes: Maybe even they know Obama is...

Shift in Massachusetts: Scott Brown leading while Elizabeth Warren’s campaign finances come under scrutiny

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 19 Comments

A new Boston Globe poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows Scott Brown is making a successful October push in Massachusetts to keep his seat in the United States Senate. The Globe now has Brown leading 47-45. The poll is a reversal...

One word: Creepy

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 39 Comments

I have one suggestion for the Obama campaign and supporters thereof: Moratorium on the creepy campaign ads with choirs of children singing about how much of a savior President Obama is. There have been a few questionable ones in the past but this one, I think, reaches...

Politico polls and projections see two different futures for Obama

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 29, 2012 23 Comments

Newly released data from the weekly Battleground Poll sponsored by Politico and George Washington University has come up with an interesting set of numbers this week. The first part of the data taken in represents a poll of likely voters from last week. Here, Obama has...

My First Time will be nothing like Lena Dunham’s First Time

Posted by 0387erp on October 29, 2012 27 Comments

“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy … someone who really cares about and understands women.” – Lena Dunham This week marks an especially repugnant page in President Obama’s catalog of attempts to woo young female...

You’re done, alright

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 4 Comments

From reader Ken: I was driving through Durham, NC on Thursday and was behind this car. My dad and I could not stop laughing when we saw both bumper stickers. I think it sums up the entitlement society following Obama. I thought you and your readers might get...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 9

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 28, 2012 9 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 9 days to go. Today’s great Empty Chair photo comes to us from Yvonne and Glen in New York. The...

Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong says Romney ahead in Gallup because people don’t know where to vote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2012 47 Comments

Noted University of California - Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong has figured out why Mitt Romney is so far ahead in the Gallup tracking poll of likely voters. His theory is that Obama supporters like him are only now figuring out where to vote, so they do not...

Trouble in an Operation Counterweight race, GA-12 now leaning Democrat

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 28, 2012 4 Comments

In a race that has long been dubbed the closest Georgia Congressional contest, new developments suggest it may be slowly tilting in favor of incumbent Democrat, John Barrow. The Rothenberg Political Report is now handicapping Georgia’s 12th District congressional race as “toss-up/tilt Democrat” – with an...