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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 False Narrative Of Tea Party Violence Attempts Suicide

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 67 Comments

Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice.But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with Republicans. ...

Now That Was A Speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 14 Comments

Ronald Reagan's televised address to the nation after the Challenger disaster in 1986 touched the nation as few other presidential addresses have. Reagan's speech text was a masterpiece of brevity and eloquence, but it was the presentation which touched the nation. Simplicity was the order of the...

Hutchison, Out.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 13, 2011 21 Comments

Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today that she will not be seeking re-election for her Senate position. According to Hutchison, she has known this for quite some time. Considering the fact that she ran against Rick Perry for the governorship last year, I doubt that is...

Clarification

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 13 Comments

From ABC News:President Obama’s dramatic news at last night’s memorial service in Tucson that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ has just minutes before opened her left eye for the first time since the shooting has created some confusion in light of news from doctors that Giffords “could...

Let’s Not Forget Who Among Many Has Coarsened The Conversation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 15 Comments

As I posted yesterday, I thought Obama gave a good speech at the Tucson memorial. The mainstream media, which has been seeking a way to redeem Obama's presidency, is portraying the speech as turning point in which Obama brought us all together, in contrast to...

House Report Says Top Universities ‘Refused’ to Stop Campus Antisemitism

Campus Anti-Israel Protests Declined From Last Spring to This Fall

Racist Graffiti Found at Rhodes College Turns Out to be a Hoax

Indiana University’s 'Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity' Loses Funding

Idaho Board of Education Passes Resolutions Requiring Closure of DEI Offices

Harvard Law Enrolls Fewer Black Students After SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action

Hil Unhinged

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 13, 2011 8 Comments

In the list of egregious statements made about the Arizona shooting, many media personalities have been embarrassingly (or should be embarrassed, anyway) wrong about the nature of the shooter as details have been uncovered. While I don't really care much about their opinions, aside from...

Death Wishes Like It’s Party Time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2011 63 Comments

I'm not sure if the various death wishes for Sarah Palin made on Twitter and Facebook, as a result of false accusations that Palin's electoral target map caused the Tucson shooting, constitute death threats. Saying you hope someone is killed seems to walk right up...

Obama’s Tucson Speech, In Other Words

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 24 Comments

I thought Obama's speech at the memorial for the Tucson shooting victims was a good speech, better in writing than in delivery, which is unusual for him.The pep rally atmosphere was strange, but I learned long ago that people grieve in their own ways. And...

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...

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...