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Congress Must Stop Trump From Being Sworn In, Argues Column in The Hill

Younger Generation Support for Luigi Mangione Reflects "A Strong Anti-Capitalist Trend on Campuses"

Israel's Pager Operation Disoriented and Severely Damaged Hezbollah, Here's How They Did It

Three Dem Fleebaggers To Face Recall Election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 4 Comments

There were some delays, and last minute uncertainty as to how the Wisconsin GAB would rule on the frivolous claims of petition fraud, but the GAB late today certified that there are enough signatures for recalls against three Democratic State Senators, as reported by WisPolitics...

Just When You Thought Weinergate Could Not Get Any Worse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 23 Comments

No, not the release of "the photo." This:Weiner’s Wife Is PregnantTheir marriage has become the subject of intense speculation and scrutiny amid an embarrassing online sex scandal. Now, Representative Anthony D. Weiner and Huma Abedin are about to make news of a different kind: they...

Who Will Leave First, Anthony Weiner or Ed Rollins?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 17 Comments

The chorus of voices pointing out the damage Ed Rollins is doing to Michele Bachmann because of the needless and damaging fight Rollins picked with Sarah Palin on his first day on the job is growing:Greta: "My advice? Better to dump Rollins now than to carry his baggage...

Chief Palestinian Negotiator – No Talks Unless Israel Accepts Obama Formula

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 12 Comments

Sure, this may be bluster in part, but it does demonstrate the damage Obama did by adopting the Palestinian position that a peace agreement must be based on the pre-1967 border plus land swaps. As reported by The Jerusalem Post:Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said...

Funny How It Took A Federal Indictment For Us To Hear About It

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 12 Comments

This does not fit the narrative, so we heard very little from the national media about anti-Black racism among Mexican gangs until this federal indictment was unveiled (h/t @GabrielMalor):A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation, threats...

Ohio May Pass Comprehensive DEI Ban for Public Universities in 2025

Costco Defends DEI Program as Other Companies are Abandoning Similar Policies

Does Israel Have a Public Relations Problem?

Colleges Are Filling Students' Minds With Jew Hatred

Academia Has a Fraud Problem

Students at Indiana U. Required to ‘Reflect’ on How Their Privilege Oppresses ‘Subordinate Groups’

I Demand That Obama Recite The Longfellow Poem From Memory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 16 Comments

Without a teleprompter.And if he gets any details wrong, or if any historian disagrees (even if many agree), he has no business being President.The text is here, follow along:(Elevated from Video of the Day at request of commenter LukeHandCool.)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...

Michele Bachmann Needs To Dump Ed Rollins Now

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 18 Comments

This is a follow-up to my post yesterday, Michele Bachmann's First Big Mistake - Hiring Ed Rollins, regarding Rollins out-of-the-gate attacks on Sarah Palin:Hiring Rollins is an enormous mistake for Bachmann. It could be campaign killing. The people who hate Palin are the same people...

Michele Bachmann’s First Big Mistake – Hiring Ed Rollins

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 47 Comments

As I've said before, I like Michele Bachmann. Not surprisingly, Bachmann has come under the same types of snide attack as Sarah Palin from the mainstream media, entertainment industry and left-blogosphere. There is a special place reserved for conservative women in the Democratic toolkit of mockery and derision.But Bachmann...

The NFL: Higher Moral Standards than Congress

Posted by Michael Alan on June 07, 2011 7 Comments

(By Michael Alan)When retired NFL quarterback legend Brett Favre was first suspected in 2010 of having a habit of "sexting" the female hosts provided to him at venues his team visited, specifically the Jets' Jenn Sterger in 2008, he was immediately put under investigation by...

30 Years Ago Today – Israeli Operation ‘Opera’ Wipes Out Saddam’s Nuclear Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 5 Comments

Today is the 30th Anniversary of Operation Opera, Israel's strike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, which destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. The strike was widely criticized by the international community as a violation of international law.One of the Israeli pilots, Ilan Ramon,...

Syria on Brink

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 4 Comments

The Assad regime is claiming that 120 security officers were killed in northern Syria in the past couple of days. These figures and the circumstances are disputed, and there is speculation of a mutiny, but regardless of whether real or exaggerated, this could be the...

Weiner Conspiracy Theory Morphs From Hacking To Blackmail

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 14 Comments

Joseph Cannon was one of the first and most vocal to claim that Andrew Breitbart either directly or through others had set up Anthony Weiner by hacking and/or spoofing the original tweet last Friday night which set off the firestorm.Cannon's theory of how Weiner was...

Suffolk Univ. History Prof. – Palin Right About Paul Revere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 24 Comments

In the continuing saga, in which Palin is being savaged and mocked, please listen to this NPR interview with Robert Allison, a professor and historian at Suffolk University, in which Allison argues that while Palin may have had some details wrong, she mostly was correct about Paul Revere's...

Charles Johnson: I Won’t Apologize to Breitbart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 66 Comments

Earlier today I noted that numerous people owed Andrew Breitbart an apology.Among those people was Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs who accused Andrew Bretibart of "smearing" Weiner with "phony" accuastions. Now that Bretibart has been vindicated, is Charles willing to man up and apologize? Hell...

Weiner Presser / Update: Hangs In There

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 22 Comments

At 4 p.m. Eastern. Will the headline be "Weiner Hangs In There" or "Weiner Peters Out"?Updates: Admits sent photo Friday, did it as joke, then laughed about it. "To be clear the picture was of me and I sent it."Also "engaged in several inappropriate" conversations,...

Weinergate: The Line For Apologies To Andrew Breitbart Forms On The Left

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 13 Comments

Now that more photos and information are coming out from multiple sources about Anthony Weiner's online exchange of photos and salacious talk, it is worth revisiting how the left blogosphere relentlessly pushed the meme that this was an Andrew Breitbart hoax:Charles Johnson:Joseph Cannon:DailyKos:Eric Boehlert, who took time...

It was surprisingly easy for public sector unions to bust Providence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 3 Comments

It was surprisingly easy for public sector unions to bust Providence. Through political influence public sector unions gained a majority on the Providence Pension Board, and helped themselves to unsustainable benefits.The Providence Journal digs bag into the history of the City of Providence pension system,...