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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

What Don’t You Understand About Growing The Pie?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2011 16 Comments

The 400 wealthiest people control more wealth than that controlled by bottom economic half the population. Michael Moore said it, and PolitiFact checked it, so it must be true.So what?There is no limit to wealth in a free-market, capitalist society, unlike a socialist society where government...

Should I Punish Myself?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 17 Comments

Via The Cornell Insider:"[The Cornell University Program Board] is excited to present An Evening with Keith Olbermann ’79 on March 29th at 6:00 PM in Bailey Hall! Olbermann needs no introduction, but in case you’re unaware, he is a writer and political commentator who until...

What Kind Of Person

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 17 Comments

stabs a three-month old infant to death?Children have been killed in war before, unfortunately.But the thought of the person or people who stood over her, and what was going through their minds as they cut her, is just unimaginable.More of the photos released by the...

Broken Windows

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 12, 2011 11 Comments

Some people never learn:HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The natural disaster of a tsunami could actually provide a temporary boost to the global economy.Larry Summers, former director of President Obama's economic council and a former head of the World Bank, said rebuilding could temporarily boost the Japanese...

Wisconsin Protest Open Thread

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 7 Comments

I'll be in meetings most of the day, so I will not be able to follow the planned return of the Fleebagger14 to Madison, and the protests planned.I'm sure they will be "massive."Comments will be put through, so please feel free to keep each other...

New Course at U. Colorado Boulder to Explore Feminism Through Disney Female Characters

Several Top Schools Urging International Students to Return From Break Before Trump Takes Office

People Still Have Lots of Questions About Spending in the Kamala Harris Campaign

Boise State U. Shuttered Campus DEI Centers Over Thanksgiving Break

National Spelling Bee Approves Feminist Term 'Womyn' for Kids' Competition

U. Iowa Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55K to Speak on Campus

Qaddafi after dictatorship

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 12, 2011 2 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- The Onion had a really clever article posted yesterday: "Libyans Agree To Come Up With Something For Qaddafi To Do All Day In Exchange For Him Leaving.TRIPOLI—In an act of reciprocity they called "vital to the future of our nation," the leaders...

Palestinian Terrorist Stabs Infant and Family To Death

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 12 Comments

On the anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, which I wrote about yesterday, a Palestinian terrorist broke into a Jewish home on the West Bank and stabbed five members of a family, including a one-month old baby, to death while they slept:Five family members were...

Video: Wisconsin Protesters Surround Bus With Republican Senators, Bang on Windows and Doors

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 8 Comments

After the vote passing the budget repair bill, Republican Senators were led from the Capitol through a tunnel, and then onto a bus, where protesters surrounded them and chased the bus, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel::Amid unprecedented protests, Republican lawmakers have at times been escorted...

PolitiFact Has A Serious Problem, But I Repeat Myself

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 6 Comments

I have written about PolitiFact before, includine the clear bias shown by The Providence Journal in its application of ratings during the campaign by former Democratic Mayor David Cicilline against Republican John Loughlin in my home RI-01 District. I also have noted an analysis of...

Money and technology.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 11, 2011 6 Comments

Today the tragedy in Japan is on the minds of people around the world. This was a terrible tragedy, but it lifts my spirits to see how being in a developed country can dramatically increase the welfare of a group of people in such a...

Wisconsin Who?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 17 Comments

The failure of Democrats in Wisconsin to stop passage of a budget repair bill, including a scaling back of public sector collective bargaining as to benefits, is being portrayed as a "gift" to Democrats and public sector unions. The usual suspects are describing Gov. Scott...

Before There Was NPRscam, There Was

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 4 Comments

Abscam:http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

The Coastal Road Massacre – March 11, 1978

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 4 Comments

Today marks the anniversary of The Coastal Road Massacre, one of the most notorious PLO terrorist attacks on Israel, in which dozens of Israelis were killed when PLO operatives from Lebanon landed at a beach north of Tel Aviv, and proceeded on a killing spree. ...

Morning No Way

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 37 Comments

The Hill reports that John Cornyn and other Republicans in Washington, D.C. are trying to recruit Joe Scarborough to run for Senate as a Republican in Florida, GOP woos 'Morning Joe' for Fla. Senate:Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit Joe Scarborough to run against...

Polling 101, Last Class: You Can’t Learn Much From Asking People Their Ideology

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 3 Comments

This is the fifth in a series of GUEST POSTS by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion, and quantitative and experimental approaches to political science. While this is the last post in the Polling...

NPR, Please Meet The Fork Which Is About To Be Stuck Into You Because You Are Done

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2011 14 Comments

Can it get any worse for NPR? H/t to my readers for alerting me to this video in the NPR Sting, Part 2, via The Daily Caller:New video released Thursday afternoon indicates National Public Radio intended to accept a $5 million donation from fictitious Muslim...

Why do these people, many of whom are professionals, feel no fear in expressing such death wishes in the open?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2011 36 Comments

You have seen the video of Twitter death wishes directed at Sarah Palin, by people who did not feel the need to hide their identities.So like clockwork, death wishes (threats?) are being tweeted about Scott Walker, again often using real names.And these were before last night's...