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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

Person Tweeting Death Wish For Palin Now Wants Privacy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 67 Comments

I linked earlier to a YouTube video montage [video removed, see update below] of death wishes tweeted about Sarah Palin after various bloggers maliciously linked Palin's electoral target map to the Tucson shooting.Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people who...

An Apt Caricature of the Internet Generation

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 12, 2011 6 Comments

There has been an article floating around the internet called "20 Ways to be Popular at an Expensive Liberal Arts School." While I technically go to an expensive research university, not liberal arts school, I think it's a pretty funny microcosm of the type of...

Blood Libel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 12 Comments

The people who falsely and maliciously accused Sarah Palin of inciting Jared Loughner to murder now are criticizing Palin for using the term "blood libel."The term "blood libel" has it's origins in the accusation in Europe (and more modern times, in the Middle East) that...

Loughner Friend – “He Didn’t Listen to Political Radio”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 5 Comments

Is there anything left of the left-blogosphere, mainstream media and Democratic political accusation that Jared Loughner was motivated by right-wing vitriol?ABC News presents video of an interview with Loughner's close friend, who says:"He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to...

The Worlds of Jared Loughner and Palin Haters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 16 Comments

With each passing day, the evidence accumulates that Jared Loughner suffered from a mental illness completely disconnected from the political world, putting in context just how despicable the accusations were that a 10-month old electorcal map published on a Sarah Palin website contributed to the...

People Still Have Lots of Questions About Spending in the Kamala Harris Campaign

Boise State U. Shuttered Campus DEI Centers Over Thanksgiving Break

National Spelling Bee Approves Feminist Term 'Womyn' for Kids' Competition

U. Iowa Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55K to Speak on Campus

Biden Admin. Rushing to Auction Off Unused Border Wall Materials Before Trump Takes Office

U. Penn Prof Apologizes After Seemingly Praising Murder of Healthcare CEO

Palin Video: “America’s Enduring Strength”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 25 Comments

Sarah Palin has released a statement on Facebook and video responding to the Tucson shooting and accusations that she caused Jared Loughner to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and to murder several people:Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.Here is the full text...

Someone Worth Remembering

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 11, 2011 29 Comments

"Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official, according to a person familiar with the congressman's intentions." This is really, really stupid. And, of...

Hijacking A Massacre

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments

Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain:How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah PalinThe substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner:Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of...

David Brooks Fails To Name Names At The NY Times

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 11 Comments

David Brooks is correct in his overall analysis of the media smear against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement:All of this evidence, which is easily accessible on the Internet, points to the possibility that Loughner may be suffering from a mental illness like schizophrenia...

First Post-Shooting Poll – Most Americans Still Sane

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 9 Comments

CBS News has released a poll in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of several others.The poll results show that the attempts by the left-blogosphere, mainstream media and some Democratic politicians to blame right-wing political speech and Sarah Palin for...

Dem Rep – Don’t Use Term “Job Killing” In Obamacare Repeal Bill

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

Here we go, from Democratic House Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, writing at HuffPo (emphasis mine), who claims that the Obamacare repeal bill must be renamed in the wake for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting:As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby...

What David Frum Needed To Say After Giffords’ Shooting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 21 Comments

David Frum takes Sarah Palin to task for not being more public in her reaction to the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, not being sufficiently empathetic, and not grasping the scope (no pun intended) of the accusations against her, What Palin Needed To Say After Giffords'...

The Three Media Stooges

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 14 Comments

This photo montage from National Review Online perfectly reflects what I have been writing about all weekend regarding the lie that Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties or right-wing "vitriol" caused Jared Loughner to shoot and kill dozens of people in Tucson:There really is no difference at...

The Palin “Target Map” Lie Has Traveled Far

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2011 32 Comments

It is said that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes.This weekend, a lie traveled several times around the world, and the truth still is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media.That lie is that a...

Does Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Have No Shame?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 33 Comments

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Tucson, Arizona, has become the spokesman for blaming right-wing "vitriol" for the shooting by deranged gunman Jared Lee Loughner. Dupnik made national fame last spring when he announced that he would refuse to enforce the new Arizona immigration law and for...

Five Criminal Charges Filed Against Jared Lee Loughner

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 10 Comments

Charges have been filed against Jared Lee Loughner in federal court in Arizona:Ct. 1: 18:351C.F--Congressional, Attempt To Kill; Ct. 2: 18:1114 and 1111--Murder First Degree; Ct. 3: 18:1114 and 1111--Murder First Degree; Ct. 4: 18:1114 and 1113--Attempted Murder; Ct. 5: 18:1114 and 1113--Attempted MurderAll of...

Chinese Mothers: Theory and Practice

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 09, 2011 11 Comments

There was a recent article in the WSJ by Amy Chua detailing the superiority of Chinese mothers. "[The author was] using the term "Chinese mother" loosely. [As s]ome Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents qualify too." Basically, being a Chinese mother entails never letting...