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Democrats Think They're Winning Back Men and Rural Voters in 2026

MTG's Exit Interview with The NY Times: Scorn, Self-Pity, and a Rewrite of History

MIT "Womxn" Only Physics and Bio Grad Programs Challenged by Equal Protection Project

A friend in need

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 9 Comments

Friend of the blog, blogger, and commenter Ric Locke (warlocketx) has bad news on his blog (h/t Instapundit), It’s Lung Cancer: Stage III, inoperable. Median survival prognosis: One year after diagnosis. Which is, as it turns out, the reason I haven’t been accomplishing much, including posting here...

Something seems to have changed in Syria

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 16 Comments

There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can't tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad's road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah...

Reader Poll – Will Elizabeth Warren get away with Cherokee claim?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 32 Comments

I don't think I saw this Mass GOP web ad before, but it's good. Too bad it's not shorter so it could be aired: Since today seems to be the day for Reader Polls, let me know if you think Warren will get away with her...

Meaningless but fun Reader Poll on Obamacare verdict

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 32 Comments

Your vote counts, so we will count every vote!...

Jim Matheson plays a moderate on TV

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 10 Comments

I guess Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson running against Mia Love in the new Utah-04 district is a moderate compared to Nancy Pelosi. His claim to moderation is that on a small number of key votes he has voted against his party, but not when his vote mattered. Matheson...

Judge Orders Secret Hearing of Alleged Charlie Kirk Killer to be Made Public

Brown University Implements Campus Security Overhaul in Wake of Shooting

Nikole Hannah-Jones Writes Tribute to Cop Killer Assata Shakur

Lincoln University Prof Claims School Changed His Students' Grades Without Asking

Duke University Cut Hundreds of Millions Through Various Means in Response to Federal Cuts

Students and Faculty at UC-Berkeley Unhappy About Suspension of Anti-Israel Lecturer

I thought California had banned this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 11 Comments

From reader M: If you like your bumper stickers big...

So why not Bobby Jindal for V.P.?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 99 Comments

Other than the fact that George Will thinks he's a good default pick? I've always liked Jindal, but admittedly I don't follow his day-to-day actions in Louisiana that carefully. He did a good job on the BP spill, doesn't have any known personal problems, has experience as...

Jesse Jackson, Jr., on medical leave for exhaustion as investigations heat up

Posted by Anne Segal on June 26, 2012 32 Comments

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) has apparently been on medical leave for the past two weeks due to extreme exhaustion. The information was released in a statement his office put out Monday, which indicated he had been on medical leave since June 10. The beleaguered congressman...

Where’s Rick?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 47 Comments

If this reopens old wounds, too bad. Rick Santorum's hiding act is wearing thin. Newt is out there all the time helping to pound on the Obama record. The supposedly bitter Newt is proving himself to be the class act his supporters always knew him to be....

U.Va v Breitbart on Elizabeth Warren investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 27 Comments

Well, this is interesting. The University of Virginia is defending its former (and soon to be again?) President Teresa Sullivan against allegations by a former Rutgers law professor revealed in a Breitbart.com series by Michael Patrick Leahy, concerning a book co-authored with Elizabeth Warren. Background on...

Where’s Becky? Occupy keeps missing girl’s disappearance under wraps

Posted by Anne Segal on June 26, 2012 28 Comments

The disappearance of a 16-year-old minor named Becky, last seen with Occupy Chicago members, is being treated by Occupy internally with secrecy and without informing police, according to a report released yesterday from EAG News: On June 19, a leader of Occupy Chicago contacted fellow travelers...

Keep pushing Fast and Furious investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 57 Comments

I have not devoted nearly enough space to the Fast and Furious scandal and cover up. It is a potential Achilles' Heel exposing the "above the law" attitude of this administration. From The Daily Caller: A single internal Department of Justice email could be the smoking-gun document...

Cherokees launch fundraiser for Elizabeth Warren debate protests

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 15 Comments

After Elizabeth Warren snubbed and insulted a small group of Cherokee women who traveled to Boston last week to see her, the Cherokees are undaunted. The group formed in late May, Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren, has just launched a fundraiser: We are now starting an...

You were against Obama before it was cool?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2012 24 Comments

Well, I was against Obama before you were against Obama, so I'm way cooler. From reader Brian, who spotted this vehicle in Santa Cruz, CA. Neither Brian nor I could identify the flag, hopefully it's not something bad: Update: Thanks to reader L1b3r7y 0r D347h, the flag is for the...

Another SWATing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2012 42 Comments

This time Aaron Walker, the same day he won his freedom from the gag order. Someone called the police and said he shot his wife, and the police went the the house heavily armed. It's not just SWATing, it's attempted murder in practice if not in law. More...

Correction: BIG SIS TO AZ SUP CT: DROP DEAD!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2012 57 Comments

Drudge ran a classic headline today regarding the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to suspend all existing cooperation agreements with Arizona in light of the Supreme Court's unanimous upholding of §2(B), permitting authorities to check the immigration status of persons otherwise lawfully detained: While...

Faculty, alumni firestorm as U. Chicago courts future Obama Library

Posted by Anne Segal on June 25, 2012 26 Comments

The University of Chicago, the once prestigious home to Milton Friedman and Art Laffer and birthplace of the "Chicago School" of free-market economics, is now flirting with the idea of becoming the future home to a quite different type of thinker--Keynesian Barack Obama. University of Chicago...