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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

Public Sector Employee Benefit Conglomerates Protected By Collective Bargaining Agreements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2011 4 Comments

The battle taking place in Wisconsin is just one of many battles in which elected officials are attempting to take back control over state and local government from public employee unions.The stakes for the public are high. Increasingly large percentages of state and local budgets...

Eat fresh?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 08, 2011 9 Comments

Today I read in the Journal that Subway has surpassed McDonalds in number of locations worldwide. The Journal article cited the unusual location of some Subway restaurants and left the analysis for the growth of the chain rather open-ended. Perhaps, though, the growth of the...

NPR, R.I.P.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2011 48 Comments

The Daily Caller has a video filmed by a group run by James O'Keefe in which the President of the NPR Foundation reveals the blatent biases of NPR and puts to rest any claim that NPR's news operation is non-political.O'Keefe's group presented itself to NPR...

Polling 101, Session 2: Samples & Margin of Error

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2011 3 Comments

This is the second 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.___________________Samples & Margin of Error1. Sampling Error Will Always Be There...

These Bumper Stickers Made Me Throw Up A Little

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2011 7 Comments

Thanks to reader Jason for sending this photo he took near Raleigh, North Carolina, which apparently is almost as fertile bumper sticker hunting grounds as Ithaca (I said "almost"):Oh, and in case you were wondering, we have a Class A hyprocrite behind this wheel:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers...

Idaho Board of Education Passes Resolutions Requiring Closure of DEI Offices

Harvard Law Enrolls Fewer Black Students After SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing 'Genocide'

Federal Govt Trying to Hire up to 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump's Inauguration

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has Fun on Broadway While Conservative Justices Can't Leave Their Homes

Northwestern Prof Calls Out AAUP Over DEI Hypocrisy

That Sentence About Glenn Beck

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

There is a sentence no one seems to pay attention to in an opinion piece masquerading as reporting in The NY Times on how Beck and Fox News -- supposedly -- will be parting ways at the end of the year.The rest of the "story" has heartened the left-blogosphere...

Missing U. Washington Student – Marizela Perez

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 3 Comments

Cousin of Michelle Malkin, has disappeared mysteriously in Seattle.Please spread the word, particularly those of you in the Seattle area.Here is the latest news report:Seattle Police say a missing persons detective will be investigating a University of Washington student reported missing Saturday.Relatives say Marizela Perez,...

Hitchens on Egypt

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 07, 2011 4 Comments

Christopher Hitchens has really been phenomenal in the past few weeks. In his Vanity Fair April article, he does not disappoint. He mulls over all the revolutions he has seen, and concludes that Egypt is not as poignant as it seems:Neither in exile nor in...

Rhode Islanders Want Arizona-Style Immigration Law 54%-37%

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 9 Comments

My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is as blue a state as they come. Our entire congressional delegation is Democratic and Democrats control the state legistature. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 37%, the highest gap in any state (only the District of Columbia has...

Sarah Palin’s Father: “We sleep with the guns”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 25 Comments

So says Sarah Palin's father in this interview with the BBC, because of death threats:In the kitchen of their Wasilla home, among an extraordinary collection of animal skins, skulls and bones, the spoils of a lifetime spent hunting and fishing, they told me that their...

Polling 101 – How People Answer Polls

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 9 Comments

This is the first in a series 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.____________________Analyzing polls with only what polling companies release is a tricky...

So Tell Me About Jon Huntsman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 29 Comments

Per posts at The Hill and Ben Smith, the Obama administration is playing its usual childish games, this time heaping praise on Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Republican Governor of Utah, for the purpose of undermining Huntsman's appeal to Republican voters should Huntsman choose...

Teachers Unions Explained

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 8 Comments

Thanks to reader Mark for the link to this video, from the makers of Liberal Foreign Policy Explained, How Liberal Journalists Think, Liberal Taxes Explained, Feminism Explained, and Meet The Liberal Elite.Update: I don't usually add to these videos, but given what is going on...

Der U-Bahn (die Geschichte)

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 06, 2011 15 Comments

My friend, Steven Samols, is studying abroad in Berlin. Though I attended the same program in the fall of '09, Steven has learnt from my mistakes and has been graciously keeping his observations written down. This small passage reminds me that the Berlin subway system...

NY Times Recognizes The Public Employee Union Symptoms, But Not The Cause

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 6 Comments

The Board of Editors of The New York Times is demanding significant cut backs in public sector union contracts, but refuses to recognize the cause of the problem, which is the entire structure of public employee unions:At a time when public school students are being...

Wow, What A Pair

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2011 7 Comments

It takes someone with a big pair to display this pair of bumper stickers in Ithaca:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Salon.com Commenter Calls for Lynching Of Koch Brothers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 13 Comments

The comments directed at the Koch brothers at left-wing blogs have been among the most vile I have seen anywhere on any topic.But this one by frequent Salon.com commenter Marc22309, who has published over 1800 "letters" (what Salon.com calls comments) certainly is among the most vile:It's interesting how...