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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Joe Paterno statue removed in advance of Monday’s NCAA sanctions

Posted by Anne Segal on July 22, 2012 72 Comments

A statue of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno was taken down Sunday from outside the university's football stadium. A report from Louis Freeh that detailed the far-reaching coverup of child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky led the university to remove the statue, announced earlier...

Oh Canada

Posted by Anne Segal on July 22, 2012 36 Comments

Robin Williams once said of Canada, "it's like a loft apartment overlooking a really great party." But a study released this week said that while the U.S. has been partying, it appeared that Canadians' net worth had leaped ahead of Americans': The average Canadian has quietly...

Remembering Chicago’s victims

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2012 47 Comments

A mass murder like Aurora, Colorado, naturally grabs the headlines and attention, as it should. A presidential recognition of the murders is appropriate. Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president's hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting. They...

Still legal in Texas

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2012 11 Comments

From reader Charles: I have been reading your blog for some time and enjoy your bumper sticker feature. I found this one in a parking lot in Irving, Texas (I live in Fort Worth). ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Analysis: Colorado shooter likely not wingnut because didn’t target gays, Muslims or foreigners)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 70 Comments

We're making progress, of sorts. Not everyone jumped in with Brian Ross and ABC News in trying to link Colorado shooter James Holmes to the Tea Party. One left-wing blogger quickly wrote that he did not suspect a Tea Party connection because, in his view, a real wingnut...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Elizabeth Warren’s Google search term problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 13 Comments

I have posted about Elizabeth Warren't Google search bar auto-fill problem both in the United States and Japan. I recently discovered the Google Insights for Search tool, which provides information gathered by Google based on search terms As opposed to the auto-fill problem, this doesn't measure what...

When political correctness runs amok, it will look like the Mayor of Boston

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 74 Comments

The Mayor of Boston thinks he has the right to deny business permits to a business if he doesn't like the views of the owners of the business on gay marriage. From The Boston Herald: Mayor Thomas M. Menino is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from bringing its...

In the land of Oz

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 22 Comments

down under, these tweets were posted. From a blog you should check out, Cattalaxy Files ("Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog"), which one of our commenters frequents. Be sure to click on embedded links. On guns: In the unarmed country the man with the illegal weapon rules bit.ly/NQfAtZ— CatallaxyFiles (@CatallaxyFiles)...

The You Didn’t Build It Act of 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 23 Comments

To make it perfectly clear to those of you who want to keep more than a hunk of your money, who think you are successful because you are smarter or worked harder, who think you built that business, good for you...

He is the 1

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 10 Comments

Give me an H, give me a U, ...

Why even look for a Tea Party connection?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 63 Comments

After a day of the media investigating James Holmes, the mass murderer at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater, a profile is emerging of someone who did not have any overt political agenda or affiliation. Yet once again, the Tea Party was injected into the crime through...

Ahmadinejad comes close to claiming credit for Bulgaria bombing as victims buried (Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 11 Comments

Israel has accused Iran through Hezbollah of being behind the bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria. Iran's President came pretty close yesterday to claiming responsibility even as Iran formally denies involvement, via Times of Israel: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated publicly on Thursday over the deaths of...

About those polls

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 48 Comments

Jay Cost doesn't see malevolent intent, just a history of oversampling Democrats consistently across a variety of polling organizations: The clear answer is: they skew Democratic. In fact, every recent registered voter poll with party spreads I could identify had a Democratic advantage that exceeded the...

Judge rules NYC transit unlawfully banned pro-Israel, anti-Jihad poster

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 12 Comments

A federal judge has invalidated a New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority ban on a pro-Israel, anti-Jihad poster, because the standard the MTA applied -- whether an advertisement was "demeaning" to certain groups -- was unconstitutional because it discriminated on the basis of content of speech...

Reaction building to Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 57 Comments

Reaction to Obama's imitation of Elizabeth Warren is, um, building. Bristol Palin is collecting stories at her blog from people around the country, some of which are in this video The Romney campaign is out with t-shirts (h/t jimzinsocal): There's also a parody site, You didn't build that...

Aurora, CO shooting (Update: ABC News in damage control mode)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 101 Comments

A gunman identified as James Holmes killed 12 people at the opening of the new Batman movie. Details still are unclear as to who he is, but ABC News already has blamed the Tea Party because there is someone with a similar name who is a...

I hope this person fails

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2012 17 Comments

From reader Scott: Hello again from Raleigh, NC. I rolled up on the following Volvo and the first thing that popped into my head was, "triple fail". From the disastrous, Jon Stewart-led "Restore Sanity Rally", to the even more epic "99%" spectacle, the Obama 2012 seemed...