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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

The Lessons of NY-26

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 7 Comments

Democrat Kathy Hochul won NY-26, a Republican District, in a special election yesterday, with 48 % of the vote. Jane Corwin, the Republican received 42% and phony Tea Party candidate Jack Davis 9%. These percentages may change as there are several thousand absentee ballots, but the...

Does anybody really know what time it is, does anybody really care, about time?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 11 Comments

During a visit today, Obama signed the guest book at Westminster Abbey "24 May, 2008."I'm impressed that he got the month and day correct.This will be about a three hour laugh.Had it been [insert name of random Rebublican here] it would have been a three week media...

“Listening to Netanyahu was like listening to our collective conscience trying to remind us of who we really are.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 16 Comments

I'll have more on Bibi Netanyahu's speech to a Joint Session of Congress later. For now, I'll quote reader Deborah who e-mailed me as follows:As I listened to the live broadcast of Bibi Netanyahu's speech, I thought to myself that HE's reminding us of who...

Commencement Season

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 24, 2011 5 Comments

KathleenCommencement season is upon us, which means that insipid celebrities of all flavors will bestow their opinions upon a new generation of bright-eyed college grads. Notable was former President Bill Clinton. His prose at the NYU graduation read like so: "today’s business schools are teaching...

So Tell Me About Mitt Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 35 Comments

I've been dreading this day, because even when I asked you to tell me about other candidates, you told me about Mitt Romney.While the MSM tells us that Sarah Palin is the most divisive Republican, I don't think that's true in the Republican primaries.Please hold...

University of Iowa Closing Down Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Department

Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel Switches From Democrat to Republican

There Were 21 Hate Crime Hoaxes on College Campuses in 2024

California Lawmakers Push College Admissions Priority for Descendants of Slavery

Joe Biden Signs Law Requiring Colleges to Report Hazing Incidents

New Jersey Congressman Denounces Faculty at Rutgers for Adopting BDS Resolution

Shock – Obama Campaign Thinks Guy Not Running Was Most Credible Opponent

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 4 Comments

Marc Ambinder serves as the Obama campaign messenger of the day, with an uncritical account of what Team Obama supposedly believes as to the Republican field. You will not be surprised to find that Team Obama was most concerned with a candidate who is not running:Gov....

Better to discuss whether the pre-1967 borders are on the table while Obama’s reelection still is on the table

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 8 Comments

Is there any doubt that Obama will put the screws on Israel to come close to doing what people like Jeffrey Goldberg insist "my President" will not do, which is force Israel to make dangerous concessions? When there is no reelection on the horizon, when...

Netanyahu at AIPAC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 1 Comment

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at AIPAC last night. It takes a few minutes for him to get into a groove, but it's worth the watch. The speech was interrupted several times by hecklers who were escorted out. The money line comes at the...

Bye-Bye Brown

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 34 Comments

You don't need me. You have $7 million plus in the bank, and as of now, you're the most popular politician in Massachusetts.I'm just a small-time, part-time, squeeze-in-posts-between-real-life, blogger. I supported you in early December 2009, when no one gave you a chance, and continued to...

Why Not Put The 1948 Borders On The Table?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 10 Comments

Why are the pre-1967 borders of Israel, which amount to the 1949 armistice lines, so sacrosanct?Once you buy into the narrative of exclusive Palestinian victimization, once you take the Helen Thomas view which is widely accepted in many circles that Israel is an alien European...

Food for thought

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 23, 2011 1 Comment

Kathleen My friend Zach Caceres, a recent NYU grad, has a guest post over at the fantastic 'Let a Thousand Nations Bloom' blog. Political scientists have shown the costs of status quo bias in simple acts of political reform. Even mutually beneficial reforms like free-trade,...

Bibi Spoke Truth To Power

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 9 Comments

The disloyalty card is being played by Jeffrey Goldberg (who took great offense to Benjamin Netanyahu's perceived disrespect towards "my President"), Glenn Greenwald (the evil and disloyal Israel Lobby, again) and Andrew Sullivan (the Israeli-influenced media and the crazy Christians, again).Yet these critics who are so quick to run for...

Egypt is “disintegrating” and “like a black hole”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 14 Comments

So says Mohamed ElBaradei:Egypt is disintegrating socially and its economy “is bust,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and possible candidate for the Egyptian presidency.“Right now, socially, we are disintegrating,” ElBaradei said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” scheduled to...

“I dream of giving birth to a child

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2011 12 Comments

who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'"Noble dream, but what if your enemies dream of giving birth to children who will ask, "Mother, how soon can we go to war?"Spotted by reader Philip in San Diego:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...

“Together we’ll change our country. And this time it’ll be for the better.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 25 Comments

Tim Pawlenty released a web video tonight to preview his official announcement tomorrow that he's running for President. Seems pretty hard hitting and the right tone to me. Me thinks this guy might have some fight in him.Last November I asked you to tell me...

Ballot Baggers? Hole-y Warriors?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 21 Comments

As explained both here and by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the theories of election fraud propagated by the Kloppenburg campaign based on gaps and holes in ballot bags are absurd because the numbers have not changed much from the election night reports (including by the city of...

Providence College’s Lost Class of ’44

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Emily, who was in Rhode Island recently for her daughter's graduation from Providence College, for alerting me to this article in the Providence Journal about PC's so-called Lost Class of '44.The story is somewhat familiar but worth remembering; a class of college...