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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 5 Comments

Two Cornell University researchers conducted a study to determine whether the significant underrepresentation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) was the result of sex discrimination.The results of the research are summarized in the Cornell Chronicle:"It's an incendiary topic in academia -- the pervasive...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 2 Comments

Thanks to reader Angela for the link to GOP Valentine's Card.Here's my early Valentine's Day card for my readers:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 18 Comments

I have received several complaints in the past couple of weeks about readers having problems commenting.  And if several people took the time to reach out to me, there likely are many more.Since a couple of the commenters have started posting solutions in other posts,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 13 Comments

You get the empty room. (H/T Conor Rogers at Spark by The Politicizer):"Former Senator Rick Santorum ripped into Sarah Palin earlier this week for choosing supposed financial gain over attending CPAC. A friend sends over this (iPhone) photo of an embarrassingly empty Santorum speech. Perhaps...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 8 Comments

While there was much speculation that Hosni Mubarek would resign tonight, he just announced that he was staying for the transition through September elections.There will be more on this later, but the highlights of his speech were to lash out at foreign interference ("we are...

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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 3 Comments

K. McCaffrey -- My friend Jonathan, a gov major at Cornell, is keeping a blog while studying abroad in Syria. One of the few American students studying in the area (and definitely the most sympathetic to our causes), his writing has given me excellent insight...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 5 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- I am super jealous of everyone who will be at CPAC today. I have to wait until tomorrow to attend (a cost-benefit analysis of the cost of college per credit hour leaves me no choice), but those who are there today will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 4 Comments

I have posted here many times about my quirky home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, particularly the union-controlled legislature, deficit-ridden municipalities, and Democratic hegemony:Rhode Island Dem Launches "Let's Scare Grandma" Tour Rhode Island Becoming A Sanctuary State Unions Rescued In Rhode IslandIn RI,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 2 Comments

Not sure this will help Mitch Daniels' putative campaign:For real, or the campaign equivalent of Stuxnet?--------------------------------------------Related Post:So Tell Me About Mitch DanielsFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 5 Comments

PolitiFact, started at the St. Petersburg Times and then franchised out to other newspapers including The Providence Journal, has been the subject of critique here before, Media Bias In Action: Providence Journal Politicizes PolitiFact:In these latest examples the circumstances are virtually identical -- both candidates voted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 17 Comments

The New York Times reports on the inconsistency of how various government agencies count the races:The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins — a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent — as “Hispanic.” But the National Center...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 2 Comments

From the producer of How Liberal Journalists Think, Liberal Taxes Explained, Feminism Explained, and Meet The Liberal Elite.(h/t Small Dead Animals)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 9 Comments

I pulled into the Wegmans shopping center in Ithaca tonight and saw the mother of all bumper sticker collections on the back of a beat-up sedan.I'm telling you, this was it, the bumper sticker photo to top all bumper sticker photos.  So much bumper sticker craziness...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 3 Comments

Via And So It Goes In Shreveport comes news of the death of "snaggletoothie" and a link to a loving memory by his father, My son Christopher David Monson aka snaggletoothie:"Chris was born on April 1, 1948. He passed away on January 28, 2011. He...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 09, 2011 2 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- Reason Magazine had excellent coverage discussing the lack of diversity in Social Psychology. Out of one thousand polled informally at a recent conference, only three 'fessed up to being right-wing and a few dozen more to being "centrist" or "libertarian." UVA psychologist...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 13 Comments

Watching Sean Hannity's interview with Donald Rumsfeld last night reminded me of Rumsfeld's "known- knowns, known-unknowns, and unknown-unknowns" statement during a press conference in 2002.  I use this construct in class to describe how to build a legal case (you build it around the known-knowns, just saved...

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