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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

George Mason University School of Law is considered "conservative," at least by law school standards. So when CAIR played the Islamophobe card and demanded that the school shut down a speech by Nonie Darwish , Dean Daniel Polsby said no thanks to CAIR's attempt to squelch dissenting voices: It appears...

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

Doubly good. First, because the tweet by CNN reporter Alison Kosik was hysterical, and second, because the humorless leftist reaction (added: here, here) to the tweet caused her to take it down, but it lives on because people grabbed screenshots. ...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 2 Comments

Professor Jacobson and Andrew Breitbart's recent coverage of anti-Semitic incidents at the Occupy Wall Street protests were no surprise to me.  A top notch study by political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit back in 2009 found that triggering anti-semitic concepts increased support for anti-business...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

There is a lesson here, it's that we cannot allow science to become religion, and must always question scientific authority particularly when it is used for political purposes. From The NY Times (emphasis mine): Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday...

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Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 7 Comments

Facing legal action and Internet backlash, University of Wisconsin-Stout has decided to retract their decision to force a professor to take down controversial Firefly and anti-fascism posters:  In retrospect, however, it is clear that the removal of the posters - although done with the best intent...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Sums up the bumper stickers of this West L.A. lefty's Prius.  Of course, thanks to experimentation on rats and other animals, we aren't dying in droves at young ages like the pilgrims. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

... Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill Do you need to know anything else?  If so, the article is here....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

I'll be watching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Debate tonight at 7 p.m. because it will be the first appearance of Elizabeth Warren.  I haven't decided what to do in the race, despite the overwhelming reader vote to support Brown, but I'll be listening. The debate will...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

I haven't covered this scandal in a while, so here is a roundup of where this story has been going.  Who knows, it might even get serious enough that the MSM will take a break from looking under rocks in middle-of-nowhere-Texas for dirt on Republicans...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 11 Comments

A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is "This is what democracy looks like!" - a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people. Yes, these protests are examples of...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 3 Comments

Last week, I reported that an Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, was to be sentenced to death for apostasy.  Now, the political branches in Iran are upping the stakes, intending to execute him for being a Zionist threat to national security instead. We should all remember, as Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 4 Comments

Something happened along the way.  Now yesterday is all they have. Thanks to reader Allen, who writes: Found on the street in Oakland, CA - looks like disillusion has truly set in.  ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 9 Comments

Today marked the 70th commemoration of the Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jews in September 1941 at the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar. I visited the site in 1978, at which point a monument had been erected at the site. Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem, which was not officially...

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