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When They Say 'Globalize The Intifada' They Mean Like The New Orleans Terrorist Mass Murder

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): RFK, Jr. "Wants To Kill Our Kids"

Meet the Deflection: Schumer Denies Democrats Misled on Biden’s Decline

Kloppenburg Laying Foundation To Delegitimize Inevitable Prosser Win

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 28 Comments

The recount in Wisconsin is moving along pretty much as expected given the history of recounts in Wisconsin: There hasn't been much change in the vote count.As of the end of the day yesterday, with 82% of the voting units in, and 78% of the...

We get it, you went down to Yasgur’s farm and joined in a rock and roll band

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 16 Comments

Thanks to a reader for this car spotted in Roxbury, NJ.Usually people in Jersey are more subtle than this, so I'm quite surprised at the ostentatious display.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Poll – When Will RAID ON ABBOTTABAD Be Released?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 20 Comments

The major Hollywood motion picture:RAID ON ABBOTTABAD - How Barack Obama and a Team of Navy SEALS Changed the Course of HistoryThe cast will include (other suggestions are welcome):DENZEL WASHINGTON as The PresidentJAMES CAAN as The VeepGLENN CLOSE as HillaryED HARRIS as Robert GatesThere may be made for TV movies before...

Syrian Update

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 06, 2011 2 Comments

KathleenMy friend Jonathan is still in Syria. He has an update on his blog that I'm reposting here to decrease the traffic to his URL:Things I'm Sick OfI don't want to start today on a negative note, (or with a blog title that ends in...

Slope Day

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 06, 2011 1 Comment

Kathleen Today is Slope Day, a Cornell tradition on the last day of classes. A few thousand members of the Cornell community gather on our enormous slope that separates the West Campus from the Arts Quad to listen to music and, well, drink. I'm sure...

U. Michigan Ending Partnership With University in China Over National Security Concerns

Trans College Basketball Player Wants Discipline for Those ‘Questioning Her Right to Play’

California State U. East Bay Has Woke 'Inclusive Language' Guide

Teachers in Minnesota Could Lose Licenses if They Don't Affirm LGBT Identities

Study Suggests Brown University Radicalized Students Following October 7th

Population Decline is Going to Hurt Higher Education

Collateral Damage To Anti-Bush Mythology About The Hunt For Bin Laden

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

The relentless banter by the mainstream media and others (including by some in the comments here) is that Bush let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora and gave up the search. As the facts come out in the wake of bin Laden's death, bits...

Condi Rice v Lawrence O’Donnell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 14 Comments

A person who knows the facts, versus an agenda-driven hack so-called journalist who has all the talking points on the tip of his tongue.The person with the facts wins.Gets particularly interesting around th 8:00 mark, for those of you who have work to do and...

Vindication Overcomes Vindictiveness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 4 Comments

Like I said:"Obama and his supporters, who opposed the secret intelligence operations and interrogations as illegal, now are reaping the political benefits of those operations and interrogations."Put into poster format, via Jim Geraghty: “VINDICATION: When the loudest critic of your policies achieves his greatest success...

Unemployment Rate Up To 9%

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 12 Comments

In a just released report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate increased from 8.8% to 9.0%.The "unemployment rate" can be somewhat misleading, as I have pointed out in the past, because as more people drop out of the labor market (i.e. give...

Yes, Yes, How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You Yes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 0 Comments

And I didn't even vote for him. Taken by reader Joe in NY in a parking lot near where he works. Seeing these stickers made him feel not quite so alone:Some alternatives:"We're all sorry now." "He is the sorry we have been waiting for." "Sorry means...

Kloppenburg’s First Big Recount Success – Nuns’ Ballots Thrown Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 29 Comments

As of the end of the day yesterday, with 75.43% of the reporting units and just under 70%, of the votes recounted, JoAnne Kloppenburg has picked up ...

So Tell Me About Canada

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

I don't follow Canadian politics very much. I don't even have a "Canada" post tag, there's no need to. [insert obligatory Canada joke here]Conservatives in Canada apparently won a huge victory. But "conservative" elsewhere does not always mean what it means here.So tell me about...

Post Birth Certificate Polling Shows It Wasn’t About Race, But About Evidence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 11 Comments

I have dealt numerous times with the malicious accusations across the mainstream media, entertainment industry, left-blogosphere, and even in the right-blogosphere that questions regarding Obama's birth certificate and/or birthplace were motivated by racism.Among other things, I documented numerous white presidential candidates who have had their...

Key Republicans Clear Obama To Pack The District Courts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 5 Comments

John J. "Jack" McConnell, Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday after a struggle by Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senators to block the nomination by opposing an unexpected cloture petition filed by Harry Reid.A key group of Republican Senators, led by Lidsey...

Feds Ignoring Greatest Threat to Dunes Sagebrush Lizard

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 15 Comments

Sure, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may be about to shut down oil production in a key region of Texas to protect the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. But the Feds are ignoring the threat from this environmental danger, the Texas Roadrunner, caught here eating a,...

Next Time Use Code Name “Dubya”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 12 Comments

That'll keep 'em happy. Really:The Senate Indian Affairs committee will hold a hearing Thursday on racist Native American stereotypes, a hearing that will now also address the Osama bin Laden mission and the code-name Geronimo.While the hearing was scheduled before the mission, a committee aide...

Dean Friedman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 7 Comments

If you have been watching the left sidebar, you have seen that I've featured Dean Friedman for the past several days. I have his original album from 1977, now if only I had a turntable that worked. So I was delighted when Dean reached out to...