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MIT Changes Website After Media Firestorm Over Equal Protection Project Complaint About Program Excluding White Females and All Men

Oberlin College Settles With Insurers Over Gibson's Bakery Payout

Equal Protection Project Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting Parents and Students in Boston Zip Code Quota Case

Obama Press Conference In A Nutshell: A Thirst For Power That Will Not Be Quenched

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 2 Comments

I was going to live blog the Obama press conference. But as it started, I changed course because there is a bigger issue here which became obvious with Obama's lecturing opening statement.With each passing day, each television appearance, each mass e-mail, each door-to-door solicitation, and...

Phony Outrage Over “Armed And Dangerous”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments

Conservative Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann has come under fire for stating that voters should be "armed and dangerous" over the administration's engery tax plans. While the leftwing media tried to twist this statement into a literal call to arms, in fact Bachmann was using a...

Double Standard On Americans Hurt In Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments

Tristan Anderson was seriously injured earlier this month while participating in violent protests against the security barrier built by Israel in response to a wave of suicide bombers from the West Bank:Every Friday for the past seven months, the villagers of Nilin, bolstered by foreign...

Confused Blogger Hates Tea Parties (Title Changed to “Instalanche Loving Blog Hates Instapundit”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2009 10 Comments

Alex Knapp, who blogs for Outside The Beltway, is a self confessed Iraq war supporter, but of course, it's not his fault. He was misled, tricked and fooled:At the time, I did support the Iraq invasion, which in hindsight was stupid.Knapp also doesn't support Obama's...

The Obama 60 Minutes Interview – He Says, I Say

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2009 7 Comments

My thoughts as the interview progresses:He says: Investment banking not like it was 20 years ago, when investment bankers only made 20 times what teachers made, not 200 times.I say: Are you kidding me? Remember Drexel and Michael Milkin? Remember the people who inspired the...

University of Washington Claims Housing for Black Students Only is Not Segregation

UNC System Board of Governors Votes to Eliminate DEI Offices

The International Criminal Court's Charges Against Netanyahu Are Political and Absurd

Anti-Israel Activists at Drexel U. Want Administrators to Remove Jewish Student Groups From Campus

Marco Rubio Says Columbia President Should Refund Students After Campus Takeover by Anti-Israel Radicals

"Congress Should Boycott, Divest, and Sanction the Ivy League"

Save Roxana Saberi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2009 1 Comment

While liberal bloggers like Ezra Klein are busy attacking good people like Ann Althouse, and liberal reporters run a secret JournoList to make sure they have their stories straight, an American reporter is rotting in an Iranian jail.The full story is at And So It...

Visualizing the Financial Crisis

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 2 Comments

The financial crisis seems hard to understand. How did we go from a robust economy to "the worst economy since the Great Depression"? (h/t Barry O)There are 27 visualizations which make things easier to understand. I like this one in particular (click on picture to...

Large-Scale Car Bomb Attack At Mall In Haifa Fails

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 0 Comments

A large-scale car bomb attack outside a mall in Haifa, Israel, has been prevented after the car failed to fully detonate. According to reports, a small explosion alerted police, who then realized that the car was loaded with explosives. If the car had exploded outside...

Ezra Klein Smears Ann Althouse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2009 24 Comments

Ezra Klein, blogger for the "liberal" American Prospect, got caught by Politico coordinating his stories with other liberal bloggers and journalists. Exposed for being a journalistic fraud, Klein needed an enemy. He found Ann Althouse. Althouse, who has a very popular blog, could be considered...

Is Barney Frank “Bad For The Gays”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2009 4 Comments

Note: This is a cross-post with Gay Patriot. I ask the question, they give the answer.---------------------------------------------------There is a peculiar, somewhat uniquely, Jewish phenomenon. It's called worrying about what is "bad for the Jews." Many have noted this phenomenon before, so I don't claim originality here.Groups...

AP: Richard Falk “Who Is Jewish”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2009 3 Comments

Richard Falk is a long-time anti-Israel (and often anti-American) polemicist. A retired Princeton professor, Falk has dedicated much of his life to blaming Israel and the United States for the world's woes, while coddling extremism everywhere else in the world. Not surprisingly, Falk also is...

Just Tell The Kids Not To Write On The Damn Furniture

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2009 3 Comments

I was watching television when I saw a commercial for Crayola Color Wonder, a product which uses inks which only show up on special paper. This way, the kids can write all over your house and there will be no "mess." The commercial shows kids...

Top Schumer Aide Indicted For Pension Fraud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2009 0 Comments

Note: Cuomo's Press Release and The Indictment Are Posted BelowThis story is just breaking. Hank Morris, a top confidant of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, has been indicted for pension fraud for using political connections to steer N.Y. State Pension Fund business for a fee:A political...

The Official Guide To Obama Kitsch

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2009 9 Comments

I am pleased to introduce The Official Guide To Obama Kitsch.Kitsch is a word of Germanic origin which denotes something that is in poor taste, tacky, pretentious, cheap or trashy.In order to qualify, the product must (1) feature the name or likeness of His Honor;...