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Lie of the Year: Joe Biden Is "Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused"

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls for creating Dem "war machine" to stop Republicans

Jimmy Carter's Presidency and Post-Presidency - A Brutal Assessment By National Review

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...

President of Indiana University Reported to Her Own Bias Team

UCLA Loses Massive Charitable Gift Over Handling of Campus Anti-Israel Protests

Rutgers University Promises Changes After Investigation of Campus Antisemitism

Course at Yale Examines Whether or Not White and Black Women Can be Friends

DEI Leader in Florida Says New State Policies Have Left Industry in Freefall

'2024 Was the Worst Year Ever for Campus Free Speech'

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,...

Weiner’s Going Down

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

This is the day after which not even Debbie Wasserman Schultz can save Weiner.Just go to Breitbart's Big Government as the evidence of more photos is dribbled out today. Patterico is all Weiner, all the time. Stacy McCain hasn't had so much fun since ever. ...

Anti-Palinites Go All In On Epistemic Closure

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 41 Comments

This weekend, lacking any new Weiner revelations (but see today), the left-blogosphere (but not exclusively the left) was preoccupied with proving that Sarah Palin was wrong when she said that Paul Revere had warned the British that the colonial militias were massing. Relying on the Longfellow poem...

Those were the days my friend

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

...Those were the days, my friendWe thought they'd never endWe'd sing and dance forever and a dayWe'd live the life we chooseWe'd fight and never loseFor we were young and sure to have our wayLa la la la la laLa la la la la la--------------------------------------------Follow...

Murderer of Fogel Family: “I’m proud of what I did…I did it all for Palestine”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2011 19 Comments

The Fogel Family was murdered by two Palestinians in April. The murderers appeared in court in Israel today, and bragged about the killing in open court, as reported by The Jerusalem Post:"I don't regret what I did, and would do it again," Amjad Awad told reporters...

Assad Sends More Palestinian Cannon Fodder Over Israel Border

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2011 6 Comments

On Friday the Syrian army killed 63 Syrian protesters against the Assad regime.As before, Assad tried to deflect international attention by sending Palestinians to try to crash the border fence on the Golan Heights, with predictable results that Israel did not allow them to breach...

Wasserman-Schultz on Weinergate: It’s Okay, He’s a Democrat

Posted by Michael Alan on June 05, 2011 15 Comments

(By Michael Alan)Earlier this week, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz told CNN that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is dealing with "a personal matter." That "personal matter" includes not knowing "with certitude" whether or not the, er, picture that was tweeted to a 21 year old college...

Praise the Dog and Pass the Bumper Stickers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2011 8 Comments

Sent by reader Jason, taken in Asheville, NC:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesRocky The Border Terrier (1994-2011)Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Saturday Night Card Game (“European Chocolate”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2011 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This week we bring together two distinct concepts. Chris Matthews and Naomi Campbell.Chris Matthews has been featured here before for his prowess in playing the race card.This week Matthews...

“Deranged Propagandist”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2011 19 Comments

That's what Andrew Sullivan calls me because I pointed out facts which contradict his narrative of Sarah Palin.Funny thing about facts, Andy. Name calling can't change them.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...