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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

Do not look directly at it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2012 17 Comments

You'll go mad. Commenter K took this photo in Gainesville, FL, and writes: I don't know what it is about the "It's Working, You're Welcome" sticker that gets under my skin more than most others but it has the effect of temporarily clouding my vision. The sheer arrogance,...

Legal Insurrection 2016

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2012 64 Comments

I finally saw 2016: Obama's America in Ithaca Saturday night. I can see how our friend judged it an Omg! Had I not followed Obama so closely since 2008 and instead relied mainly on the mainstream media, almost everything in the film would have come as...

Saturday Night Card Game (John Lewis may have authority, but he’s also wrong)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2012 47 Comments

There is a phenomenon in American politics which is not exclusive to either party, what sometimes is called the fallacy of the appeal to authority. On the political level it involves finding a heroic figure, and then wrapping him or her around an otherwise odious political message...

A vote for Jim Matheson is a vote for Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2012 6 Comments

One of the biggest electoral scams in the country is being run by Jim Matheson in Utah-04 against Mia B. Love. As detailed here before, Matheson plays a Democratic moderate on TV, and strategically votes against his party on high profile votes when his vote doesn't...

Elizabeth Warren claims has released college and law school applications

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2012 19 Comments

Denies Cherokee issue is a problem for her campaign...

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

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

Not all Democrats are anti-Israel, but almost all anti-Israelis are Democrats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2012 26 Comments

Dems platform changes worse for Israel than originally thought....

Zombies are the One Percent

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2012 13 Comments

From reader J: Here's a pic of a car in Charlottesville, VA, of an OFFICIAL NAVY car with a bumper sticker showing our illustrious leader punching out "zombies." Are we to infer that these "zombies" are anyone who dares to disagree with him? Whatever happened to "Dissent is...

Clint Eastwood talks #ECOTUS

Posted by Anne Segal on September 07, 2012 33 Comments

Clint Eastwood gave his first post-convention interview today explaining how he came to address the "empty chair" and just what he thinks of the reaction. Speaking with The Carmel Pine Cone, a local California paper, Eastwood said that "President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the...

Occupy activists plead guilty to conspiracy and weapons of mass destruction charges

Posted by Anne Segal on September 07, 2012 34 Comments

This Wednesday, three of the five Occupy activists arrested for attempting to blow up a commuter bridge in Ohio in May pled guilty to use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and attempted use of an explosive...

Play hard to get with Census survey, and you might win a gift card

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 32 Comments

Your tax dollars at work. Yesterday I posted the response from Matt in Colorado to the American Community Survey being conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Reader James forwards this note and photo: I read your post about the census surveyers, They’ve been bugging me too. This was...

This week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 1 Comment

Things you may have missed: Yale students protest lecture by Rick Santorum How The Left Took Over Academia…. and More Liberal Academics Miss Point Of National Empty Chair Day Guess which political party supports free speech on campus? Robert Gibbs Says Obama’s Decline With Youth Vote Is Bush’s Fault College students...

When did Jennifer Granholm acquire a Southern accent?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 32 Comments

What is it with the Dems? Whenever they want to feel real, they put on fake accents, particularly stereotypical black southern accents. Hillary did it in 2008 and Joe "Chains" Biden did it recently. Do you detect a slight southern twang in Jennifer Granholm's imitation of...

“Unemployment Rate” at 8.1%, labor participation rate drops again, fewer than 100k new jobs created

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 25 Comments

Another one of those anomolies which makes the unemployment rate look better than it is. The rate as calculated drops when people drop out of the work force because they no longer are counted as unemployed. So while the media and Obama campaign probably will try...

Who said this? “Warren will probably lose in Mass. she is so gratingly smug”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 14 Comments

Who said that? The same person who says -- in agreement with a position I took long ago -- Could Elizabeth Warren Cost Obama The Election? Obama's riff on "you didn't build that" remains, in my view, the most serious mistake of his campaign so far. There's a...

Too big to be contained

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2012 7 Comments

on just one bumper sticker. From the Turfmann: Offered for your amusement, spied in Barney Frank's Congressional District in the People's Republic of Massachusetts. "Obama Sucks too much for just one bumper sticker." All the best - keep up the good work! ...

Composite acceptance speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2012 63 Comments

I just tuned in to hear Chains Biden tell the already debunked story about Obama's mother fighting with the insurance company, and relating how that story reflects what makes Barack tick and who he is. What a perfect start to the night. A presidency built on myth and composite truth. What in the old days they called lies. Update: My summary of the Obama speech:

Classic #Obama, demonizes all who disagree, belittles ppl, self-righteous, mean spirit masked in hope #DefeatBHO
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

Below is my stream of tweetedness throughout the night:

Biden speech in one sentence: Romney not bad guy but wants to destroy your family and our country
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

Pretty sure Chains Biden is done, but his mouth still moving
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

When does he give the Cairo part of the speech? We bad you good we sorry
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

We agree: "When you pick up ballot you will face the clearest choice of anytime in a generation"
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

How can he be F.D.R, I thought he was G.O.D.
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

This speech is way too Iowa 2008
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) September 7, 2012

Drew Peterson convicted of murder

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2012 29 Comments

I'll admit I haven't been following this case very closely. But it seems newsworthy that he was convicted in a circumstantial case (h/t creeper): Retired Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson was found guilty Thursday of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, the verdict eliciting a gasp from a packed Will...