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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

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...

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

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

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...

Counter Attack

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 9 Comments

From the Susan B. Anthony List: And Milton Wolf: ...

Walker, Kleefisch ahead in polls, jobs numbers

Posted by Anne Segal on May 16, 2012 15 Comments

Governor Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by six percentage points-- 50 percent of likely voters over Barrett's 44 percent-- according to a poll released today by Marquette Law School. Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch leads challenger Mahlon Mitchell by six percentage points as well, garnering 47...

Cherokee genealogist to Elizabeth Warren — Tell the truth

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 64 Comments

A reader alerted me to Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter, a blog run by Twila Barnes, devoted to documenting Cherokee genealogy and countering fraudulent claims of Cherokee heritage: I am the wife of a career soldier and the mother of four. I am registered with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and, like my...

Progressives choose more traditional baby names — maybe

Posted by Anne Segal on May 16, 2012 28 Comments

Conservatives tend to give their babies "trendier" names than liberals, who favor traditional names, according to NPR: Styles of baby names, it seems, are nearly as different in various parts of the country as voting habits. "There is an enormous red state and blue state divide...

“Julia” B. Hayes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 7 Comments

Via Instapundit, Rutherford B. Hayes is back. Here's my new contribution: ...

Give him your cell phones and your money

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 13 Comments

No cell phones for you at Obama fundraisers. Via BuzzFeed Politics: In the latest attempt to crack down on potentially embarrassing digital leaks from presidential fundraisers, President Barack Obama's campaign has begun asking donors attending small fundraisers with the president to turn over their cell phones before...