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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

The Bumper Stickers That Got Away

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...

R.I.P. Christopher David Monson (aka snaggletoothie)

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...

Old News, Newer Numbers

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...

An Alternative Explanation – People Who Fear Competition And Live Off Government Tend To Be Liberal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 22 Comments

This is a follow up to my earlier post about the findings by a social psychlogist that there is a "statistically impossible" skew in the percentages of social psychologists who self-identify as liberal and conservative, reflecting a pervasive bias against conservatives throughout the social sciences.Paul...

Known Unknowns

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...

Anti-Israel Group at Columbia U. Distributes Pamphlet With Link to Financer of Terrorism

More Bans on DEI Policies are Coming in 2025

Offshore Wind is Bad News for New York and New Jersey

Diversity Conference for Elite Private Schools Devolves Into Festival of Jew Hatred

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

The New York Senate Race Gets … Smart?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 08, 2011 11 Comments

Amity Shlaes, my favorite living writer, is being recruited to run for the Senate in New York by Adam Brickley of The Dogcatcher Project. Brickley notes that "With Shlaes in the race, we can apply serious pressure on Gillibrand to explain her stunning about-face on...

And I Thought It Was A Plan

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

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Well, It’s True He “Didn’t Raise Taxes Once”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2011 10 Comments

I have warned you about the Wordsmith-in-Chief. You have to listen very carefully.In his interview with Bill O'Reilly just before the Superbowl, Obama said (via TaxProf)(emphasis mine):O'REILLY: Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth.OBAMA: Absolutely.O'REILLY: You deny that?OBAMA: Absolutely....

Saying Goodbye to… Not Much

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 08, 2011 4 Comments

Robert Gibbs will be leaving the White House soon to carry on his buffoonery elsewhere(ish). But, before he leaves, take a moment to watch this video from Politico that lists everything he isn't. Take a moment to appreciate that he was Barack Obama's communications chief...

Great News! Taxes Are Lower! (er, because economy stinks)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2011 11 Comments

The AP (via CBS News) has a headline sure to warm the hearts of the Obama communications team: High Taxes? Actually, They're at a 60-Year Low:Actually, as a share of the nation's economy, Uncle Sam's take this year will be the lowest since 1950, when...

What Is Wrong With These Pictures?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2011 2 Comments

Personal and national debt burdens are moving in opposite directions (charts via Bubble Meter, one of my favorite blogs).Household debt service payments as percentage of disposable personal income:Contrasted with federal budget deficit as percentage of GDP:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop...

I’m Part Of An “Outgroup” — Send Money

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 22 Comments

Shocking news from the frontlines of the anti-discrimination battles. Liberals -- particularly in academia and the social sciences -- have a tribal mentality which results in discrimination against conservatives.What is shocking is not that such tribal mentality exists, but that anyone is expressing surprise.As reported by...

Russia “Unexpectedly” Objects To U.S. Missile Defense

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 7 Comments

I posted numerous times before about the alleged ambiguity in the New START Treaty language regarding missile defense, and how in the rush for a lame duck, pre-Christmas ratification, the Senate ignored differences in interpretation rather than seek clarification from the Russians.The Russians consistently had voiced...

How far apart are Texas and California anyway?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 07, 2011 25 Comments

K. McCaffrey - Whenever someone, particularly one with my political sympathies, asks me about my favorite states in the country, I usually say Florida, because of their lack of state income tax, and Texas, because it has a business friendly climate and some semblance of...

Hey HuffPo Bloggers – Was It Fun Working For Free To Make Arianna Richer?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 18 Comments

First, let me congratulate Arianna Huffington on selling The Huffington Post to AOL for a reported $315 million. Isn't America a great place?Arianna came up with a great business model. Create a place where liberals could tell each other how smart they were, where they could write...

“Granola”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 31 Comments

Sure, you have called San Francisco granola city and have joked how a certain NY Times columnist might choke on his granola. But did you ever imagine in your wildest imagination that someone would put a granola bumper sticker on her car? Just "granola." It needs no...

What If Israel Calls At 3 a.m.?

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

Now that Sarah Palin has invoked the 3 a.m. phone call (which she says went to an answering machine when Egypt was calling), it is worth looking at the original Hillary advertisement, which touched on the doubts so many have about Obama:Here is a version...