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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

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...

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....

Credit Rating Agencies Issue Unfavorable Outlook for Higher Education in 2026

Instructor at British School 'Likened to a Terrorist' for Showing Videos of Trump in Class

Man Connected to Harvard Human Remains Scandal Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

Vanguard University Bans TPUSA Chapter While Maintaining Other Identity Based Clubs

Some Colleges and Universities Have a 'Holiday Tree' for Christmas

Foreign Policy Analyst Suggests Shutting Down College Middle Eastern Studies Departments

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...

Julia reacts to Mitt’s tape

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 25 Comments

You remember Julia, the Obama campaign-issued woman who turned to government for help at various life stages. Those stages aptly were summarized in Iowahawk's Julia's Circle of Life. Julia has come to symbolize the dependency state. So I wondered what Julia must be thinking about Mitt Romney's...

If the tape doesn’t knock Romney out, the media narrative is toast

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 76 Comments

What will the media do? It has invested everything in the tape. But there is a pretty fierce counterpunch being delivered on talk radio, on Twitter, in the blogosphere, and even on television when allowed. There is good reason to believe that Obama's post-convention bounce already is...

Empowering people who start fires to define freedom of speech is how freedom of speech dies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 67 Comments

The inability to distinguish between those who set fires and those who criticize those who set fires...

Pep Talk – We’ll just have to win

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 46 Comments

Consider this Pep Talk V. Every 3-4 days for the past several weeks there has been a mass media pronouncement that Romney has lost: When Paul Ryan was nominated and false "fact-checks" purported to declare him a proven liar. When Clint Eastwood took the stage and...