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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

Georgia-12: Primary, recount, runoff… Recount?

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 24, 2012 1 Comment

Although the Operation Counterweight list has been finalized, a race we are focusing on out of Georgia still has not produced a Republican candidate. On August 21st, a runoff election was held to decide who the Republicans would put forward to take on the very vulnerable...

19 shootings overnight in Obama’s home town of Chicago

Posted by Anne Segal on August 24, 2012 36 Comments

19 people were shot in Chicago between Thursday evening and Friday morning, with 13 of the 19 shot in a span of just 30 minutes. Chicago's murder rate has gone up 31 percent since 2011when Mayor Rahm Emanuel was elected. The Chicago Sun Times reports that...

Elizabeth Warren did not Google “China commodity prices collapse”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2012 21 Comments

Elizabeth Warren famously wants us to be more like China and devote even greater percentages of our GDP to infrastructure construction. Warren is making this push despite the fact that we already spend huge sums on infrastructure, we just don't do it very efficiently as state...

Really gutsy call

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2012 8 Comments

Parking in a university lot with an anti-Obama bumper sticker. From a reader on staff at Cornell: I don't remember seeing this bumper sticker on your site. The photo was taken in the parking lot of Cornell's parking office. ...

(Democratic Party) Agitators to disrupt RNC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 55 Comments

How would the media react if we did this to the DNC? Via The Hill: Bucking protocol, President Obama and the Democrats are planning a full-scale assault on Republicans next week during their convention. Presidential candidates have traditionally kept a low profile during their opponent's nominating celebration, but...

UNC Professors Sign Anti-Israel BDS Pledge

Young Democratic Socialists of America at U. Oregon Demand Abortion Drugs on Campus

Northwestern Received Taxpayer Dollars to Fund ‘Safe Space Ambassadors’

Education Dept. Finds U. Minnesota Discriminated Against Whites, Asians

Women in Academia Create New Term: 'Scholarly Harassment'

Penn State Students Protest ICE, Block Traffic in Solidarity With Renee Good

Why aren’t we running as hard on Dems support for Occupy as they are on Akin?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 29 Comments

Why aren't we running hard on the Democrats support for the Occupy movement? At least as hard as they are running on Todd Akin? One person is, Karen Harrington running against Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (via The Shark Tank): The material is there, just waiting for a video editor: ...

Dems would rather risk being seen as celebrating death than talk about the economy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 66 Comments

AbortionFest 2012 to be held in Charlotte on Sept 3-7...

McCaskill up 10 pts in non-troll poll

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 67 Comments

PPP's flash poll the night before Todd Akin's initial deadline to withdraw showed Akin still ahead by a point. I called it a troll poll which would encourage Akin not to withdraw. And so it did, Akin cited the poll in interviews justifying his decision not...

Elizabeth Warren new campaign theme based on doctored video

Posted by Anne Segal on August 23, 2012 28 Comments

Misleading 7-second video clip cuts Brown off mid-sentence...

I am against legalization

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 7 Comments

From reader Derek: I visit your site regularly. I spotted this sign while traveling last weekend Aug 18th. It was in Milford, CT. I thought you might like it. ...

Teachers Union releases hit piece video against director of Hating Breitbart

Posted by Anne Segal on August 22, 2012 20 Comments

You would think the Chicago Teachers Union has too much going on right now to wage a personal campaign against a local filmmaker. School starts September 4, and CTU is about to authorize a strike after having been embroiled in a contract standoff with Mayor Rahm...

Dem candidate accuses Dem David Cicilline (RI-01) of voter fraud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2012 12 Comments

Little would surprise me when it comes to former Providence Mayor and since 2010 congressman David Cicilline. But massive voter fraud? That's what Cicilline's Democratic primary challenger Anthony Gemma alleged at a press conference today. Via The Providence Journal: Congressional candidate Anthony Gemma alleged Wednesday that a private...