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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

We need to be more careful about Elizabeth Warren than she is about being Cherokee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 20 Comments

There is zero evidence that Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee, despite her having touted such heritage at various times, and she stands by that claim in the face of contrary evidence. Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, and to some extent your humble correspondent, have laid Warren's claims...

But if you fire him, who will give you all the free stuff?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 10 Comments

Reader Bill from Florida is traveling, and spotted this pick-up truck which had a handicapped parking license plate, in Nevada City, CA: Whoda thunkit? Handicapped and all in Cali?!?! ...

NBC show to depict EMP-aftermath society

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 51 Comments

"Revolution," a new drama from NBC's fall lineup, depicts what life would look like in the aftermath of an EMP attack. Producer JJ. Abrams (Iron Man) sets the action in Chicago, 15 years after all electricity on the planet is wiped out. In the teaser, the...

Cherokee genealogist on Warren: “These are the people she stepped on”

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

Today, Megyn Kelly of FOX News interviewed Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes about Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee heritage. Legal Insurrection has been breaking news on Warren's false claims, including extensive coverage of the genealogical records. In the interview with Kelly, Barnes says, "there's nothing to indicate she's...

Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair versus Richard Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 11 Comments

It's pretty unfair to compare Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair by lumping them together with no real connection, isn't it? Almost as bad as this headline and column from Dana Milbank lumping Richard Mourdock and federal prisoner Keith Judd together, Richard Mourdock and Keith Judd vs....

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her fake Cherokee recipes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 35 Comments

The Elizabeth Warren Cherokee saga is like opening up a Russian matryoshka doll, there's always something else inside. Or perhaps more appropriately, like peeling back The Onion. Please say this is not soooooo! From Michael Patrick Leahy: The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today...

Rahm to send dead fish to Ricketts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 21 Comments

Does this suprise anyone? Oh, to not agree with Rahm Emanuel in Chicago: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking...

Elizabeth Warren false Cherokee claim “like taking money out of the collection plate on a Sunday”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

That's part of a comment from reader stevewhitemd to my interview with Marisa DeFranco, who is challenging Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary: If Harvard were better at having a diverse professorship, it would not have to put someone who appears as white as I am out...

Important Election 2012 Announcement

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

We interrupt this campaign season for an important announcement: Facts do not matter and should not be sought. That is all. You may now return to 2008....

Change even I could believe in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 2 Comments

From reader Cheerful in Marin: ...

Evidence and “ultimately avoidable” legal irrelevancy released in Trayvon Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 49 Comments

A trove of documents (embedded in viewer at bottom of post) was released tonight in the Trayvon Martin case. The big headline is that the police report prepared a month after the incident said it was "ultimately avoidable" if George Zimmerman never got out of the car. That's...

Mass Dem Senate candidate on Cherokee-gate: Harvard “put someone who appears as white as I am out there as minority”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 26 Comments

As I mentioned the other day, Marisa DeFranco is challenging Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary. In light of Warren's three-week long Cherokee disaster, I reached out to DeFranco to get her take on the controversy and the primary race. While several other high profile candidates dropped out...

Footage of “F*** the Police” march contradicts nonviolent claims

Posted by Anne Segal on May 17, 2012 9 Comments

Today, new footage surfaced from the Occupy/ F*** the Police march Tuesday in Chicago. [Language warning, not safe for work]. The video shows a side of the Occupy / F*** the Police march not shown by the mainstream media. The media continues to ignore the radical...

Do not think of the Jeremiah Wright in the room (Update – It worked, ads won’t run)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 77 Comments

He's back. And the NY Times and other Obama supporters are not happy, so the Times reveals the scoop that a large Republican SuperPAC donor is considering -- yes, considering -- an ad campaign in the fall focusing on Wright: A group of high-profile Republican strategists is...

Rhode Island’s Solyndra cubed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 18 Comments

I haven't had much time to focus on the debacle unfolding in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations over loan guarantees to a company owned by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. This Bloomberg story has the latest: Curt Schilling, pitching ace on the...

Elizabeth Warren “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook mystery solved

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 40 Comments

Remember the non-parody story about Elizabeth Warren citing her cousin's partial editing of the early 1980s Pow Wow Chow cookbook as evidence of Warren's Native American ancestry? I could not figure out how Warren found that obscure text. Now we know, she submitted recipes to it,...

Democratic campaign strategy for dummies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 11 Comments

From reader John: Keep up the good work on Elizabeth Warren, what a hypocrite. Saw this on the road in Richmond, VA. This bumper sticker could be translated as: "Warning, close-minded person on board. Will not listen to reason. Will revert to nonsensical ad hominem attacks if he...