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Pull funding "for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line"

Major Kamala Fundraiser: Leaving 'Democratic Party is Like Leaving a Cult'

Poison Ivies: DEI and the Downfall of the Ivy League

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...

George Mason University Professors Demand End to Pro-Hamas Activity on Campus

Vanderbilt Graduate Workers Union Drops Efforts to Organize Following Legal Setbacks

As Syria Falls and Iran Fades, Turkey Seeks Regional Takeover

The Free Beacon Interviews Edward Blum, Slayer of DEI Policies

Smith College Offering Course on 'White Supremacy in the Age of Trump'

Aren't Keffiyeh Wearing College Students Guilty of Cultural Appropriation?

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...

Saturday Night Card Game (Obama Bitterly Clings to Bitter Clinger Stereotypes)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 39 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:If you have followed this series, you have seen the absurd depths to which liberal pundits and political operatives will go to inject race into non-racial situations, and to explain almost...

Who Could Have Imagined Koch Prank Call Was Identity Theft?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 7 Comments

The New York Times had an article today about David Koch, focused on the opening of a cancer center in Boston donated by Koch, but also touching on the Think Progress and left-wing smear campaign against Koch.Koch made an interesting comment regarding the "prank" call in which...

So if you ever wondered how desperate Maher was to show his PDS

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 05, 2011 21 Comments

Bill Maher '78, the most deranged and arrogant Cornell alum on the air by default since Olbermann was pulled, managed to make a news story into an insult about Sarah Palin for the millionth time. [On Charlie Sheen] "So yes, it's childish, it’s needlessly defensive,...

The Modern Theory of Relativity

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

Anything goes.Spotted in Ithaca this morning:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

What Did Former Providence Mayor David Cicilline (D-RI) Know, And When Did He Know It?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 8 Comments

Democrat David Cicilline was Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, for 8 years, replacing the colorful and convicted Mayor Buddy Cianci. Cicilline was elected in November to Congress in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District (my home district), for the open seat vacated by Patrick Kennedy.Cicilline is an openly gay Italian...

Worse Is Better, and Less Is More

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments

There is an economic measurement phenomenon developing which has the potential -- in a bass ackwards way -- to help Obama's re-election prospects.The jobs situation is so bad and so lacking in hope that more and more people simply are dropping out of the workforce,...

The Billion Dollar Candidate Has Left The Starting Gate

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

Among the many, many false narratives Barack Obama successfully perpetrated on the American public in 2008 with the help of a compliant and fawning media was the notion that Obama's election was the result of "small donors" and a grassroots fundraising movement.It all was part...

Bonohead

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 04, 2011 9 Comments

Bono made a bit of a stir in late January with an Op Ed in Le Monde, a French newspaper. As he wrote:Africa is rich in natural resources yet it is rarely Africans (save some corrupt officials) who get rich off their extraction. Meanwhile the...

Special Series on Polling Next Week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 10 Comments

As my readers know, I have taken an interest in polling, primarily because it seems so many polls are agenda driven. In a post last week, I pointed to a PPP poll on Wisconsin which used sample data which underweighted Walker voters from 2010 and...