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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

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...

Northwestern Prof Calls Out AAUP Over DEI Hypocrisy

Kansas University Pushes Trans Activism in Defiance of Kansas Voters

Columbia Prof Resigns Over School's Decision to Have Academic Who Praised October 7th Attacks Teach Zionism Course

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

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...

What Kind Of People

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 10 Comments

strap a suicide belt to a 14-year-old? This video is from several years ago, but it is a reminder of what the Israelis are up against, and how checkpoints and the security barrier were both necessary and effective.So the next time you hear the usual...

Obama Jobs Strategy In One Sentence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 12 Comments

Thanks to @DDsModernLife for pointing out this comment by reader A. Dumas, in response to my post Houdini Economics:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:SOTU Speech In One SentenceExclusive - First Draft of Obama's SOTU Speech Jewish History In One Sentence Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection...

Saturday Night Card Game (Lady Gaga Is A “Madonna-rip-offing, lyric-stealing, insincere-piano-playing racist”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 15 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:One of great things about researching entries for the Saturday Night Card Game series is that it doesn't require much work. Since My Dream has not yet come true,...

How WikiLeaks Distorts – The British Nuke Controversy Example

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 2 Comments

I have kept away from writing about "news" generated from WikiLeaks disclosure of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables. One of the main problems with using stolen diplomatic cables is that one is unlikely to get the full story in a single cable, leaving the ground clear...

Is Tim Pawlenty In The Sweet Spot or Mushy Middle?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 9 Comments

Thanks to reader James for the link to this chart by Nate Silver, showing where Silver believes various potential Republian candidates fall on a sliding scale of insider/outsider and conservative/moderate:Sweet spot, or mushy middle?If it is any help, here's how Silver describes Pawlenty's position:Tim Pawlenty...

Multiculturalism Failed In Europe, But Democrats Bitterly Cling To It Here

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 6 Comments

David Cameron has generated a stir in Europe by giving a speech in which he said that state-sponsored multiculturalism has failed:Note that Cameron was not criticizing multi-racial or multi-ethnic societies; he was proclaiming the failure of policies which sought to segregate and separate groups in the...

The Scam that Nobody Should Buy Into

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments

This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Now If Mubarek Were An Anti-American Dictator

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 12 Comments

Let's face it, he'd get the "hands off" treatment from this administration. Regime change seems to be United States policy only for our friends.Did Obama demand that Hugo Chavez transition to leave office when peaceful protesters were beaten in the streets of Caracas, or at any...

Oldie but Goodie

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 04, 2011 5 Comments

K. McCaffrey --- The grandfather of classical liberal policy institutes, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), is a wealth of great resources for the liberty-minded. One of my friends reposted this article from 2003 in their journal, The Freeman, that puts, in very simple terms,...