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Did Hostility To Policing Contribute To Brown U. Failures?

Ben Shapiro at TPUSA: Conservative movement in danger "from charlatans who ... traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty"

RI Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger Barred from Serving on Public Health Board, Sues for Discrimination

“Everybody matters to this movement online and in person”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 12 Comments

There were may good speeches at the Right Online conference, including Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin. I particularly liked Hugh Hewitt's speech, and his emphasis on how we each play an important role in the movement: "Every day is a new day online and every barrier to...

We elected a fiction

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 34 Comments

There is very little chance I'll end up reading David Maraniss' biography of Obama, although by all accounts it is a very detailed work which punctures much of Obama's self-portryal (you remember the "composite" girlfriend revealed in a pre-release excerpt). Ben Smith has read the book,...

The revolution will not be wearing spandex

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2012 19 Comments

Or a Lance Armstrong Livestrong Team Radio Shack jersey. I guess you didn't get that directive from the Central Committee, Comrade. From reader 9th District Neighbor: Mild weather always brings out the men in tights who bicycle in large groups, usually in the middle of the road. This...

Explain to me again why they are called “reporters”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 86 Comments

When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right. Forget...

Saturday Night Card Game (Is there any scenario under which the Republican would not be racist?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 31 Comments

I pointed out in a previous Card Game that the race card was being used to defend Elizabeth Warren, Playing the race card in defense of Elizabeth Warren is a vice. That post revolved around Jehmu Green calling Tucker Carlson a "bow-tying white boy" for...

SUNY Running Institute to Train Faculty as ‘DEI Practitioners’

American College Theatre Festival Cuts Ties With Kennedy Center

Socialist Students at U. Missouri Protest Law Enforcement Operation That Caught Multiple Violent Offenders

Prof Claims Georgia College and State U. Fired Him for Voicing Concerns About Student Plagiarism

Law Professor Josh Blackman Resigns From Heritage Foundation Over Antisemitism Controversy

Professor Jonathan Turley Reacts to News About Lack of Republican Profs at Yale

Update on Mia B. Love’s Utah Congressional bid

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on June 16, 2012 7 Comments

After she handled her fellow Republican candidates at the Utah convention back in April, Mia Love is receiving a substantial boost from her party to aide her attempt to oust Democrat Congressman Jim Matheson in the newly created 4th Congressional District. Many Republicans have been vocal...

Blockade

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

I think this is one of those goose/gander things. Via Roll Call: With less than four and a half months until Election Day, Senate Republicans are shutting off the bipartisan spigot when it comes to confirming President Barack Obama’s nominees to the nation’s top courts and will...

What’s up with Maine Senate contest?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 15 Comments

I'm still having a lot of trouble figuring out the Maine Senate race, and whether there's anything we can do to salvage the seat in a three-way race with the former Governor running as an independent apparently in the lead. Via Pine Tree Politics: The message from...

Palin at Right Online

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

I'm not there this weekend, but at least we have video! ...

Near Godwin, CA

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 18 Comments

From a reader: Took this photo on my way to work this morning -- in Saratoga, California, a suburb of Silicon Valley, no less! It probably doesn't mean California is in play, but I think it's an indicator of Obama's diminishing popularity here. I thought LI...

That other mysterious 2007 explosion in Syria

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

Not the destruction in September 2007 of the nuke facility likely being built with the help of the Norks. Via Jerusalem Post, a story I had not heard before, Syria’s chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s. It was July 2007...

Obligatory desperate MSNBC exploding bus publicity stunt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 43 Comments

Hey, it's working. Martin Bashir is getting more attention than he has since, um, since ...

Obama’s political pandering quasi amnesty speech interrupted by reporter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 107 Comments

Who asked a question. And the MSM is going wild on Twitter. Here's the offense: The "offender" was Neil Munro from The Daily Caller. Updates: NBC has now given reporter/heckler more coverage than Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal.— Dan Curry (@dancurry) June 15, 2012 Neil Munro is now #1 trend on...

Criminal charges dropped against Aaron Walker, but gag order remains

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

Last night Patterico reminded us Aaron Walker Still Silent: Outlaw judge Cornelius Vaughey’s ruling remains in effect. Aaron cannot truthfully blog about public figure Brett Kimberlin without violating a judge’s blatantly unconstitutional prior restraint of his speech. Just thought I’d mention that. Since it’s still true. While Walker...

Elizabeth Warren’s Google problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 37 Comments

Rick Santorum had a Google problem. And so does Elizabeth Warren, although of a different nature. Elizabeth Warren wants her message to be about evil factory owners who live off of others, and the middle class which is being"hammered" (her new favorite word). Whatever her messaging intends to...

Obama enacts the Dream Act — on his own, evading Congress

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 105 Comments

So much for the rule of law. This guy wants reelection, so to hell with the Congress. Via Associated Press: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding...

Elizabeth Warren failed the test for “truthfulness and credibility and honesty”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 25 Comments

Scott Brown hasn't said much himself about Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee fraud. But now he's going there, and good for him. With each passing day that Warren clings to her claim to be Native American, Cherokee, a minority and a "woman of color," she reveals a deep and...