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Kulaks Beware: Mamdani Orders Public Hearings To Shame "Ripoff" NYC Landlords

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction

Obama kisses the ring for Jarrett “wedding of the year”

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments

Chicagoans will (once again) have to put up with road closures, traffic backups, and helicopter "noise pollution" when Barack Obama comes (once again) to the Windy City this weekend. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett will also be in town for the wedding of her daughter, Laura...

Reagan would be a Tea Party hero

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 50 Comments

Ronald Reagan, the humble servant-leader, would have appealed to all conservatives, indeed all Americans, who believe in the right and ability to self-govern. It is the political establishment that would have much to fear from Reagan—not grassroots activists, as Jeb Bush implies in his comments yesterday....

Walker extends Wisconsin-style olive branch at Beer and Brat Summit

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 26 Comments

Today Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will hold a "Beer and Brat Summit," fulfilling his recall-election-night promise to proactively repair the state, reeling after months of partisanship and rancor. "We've got some fantastic, authentic Wisconsin products that we will be sharing with legislators of both political parties...

Should Elizabeth Warren be in “cultural appropriation” exhibit at Brown Univ. museum?

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 25 Comments

I stopped by Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum on my way out of town after the Netroots Nation conference. They currently have an exhibit focused on American Indian representation in America entitled "Thawing the Frozen Indian." The stated purpose of this exhibit "is confronting the complex, and...

You missed a spot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2012 12 Comments

Three O.B.A.M.A. signs are not quite enough. You shouldn't leave anything up to the imagination. From gone-missing photographer Jason: It's been a while, professor. I have a few recent good ones. Here's the first batch. Taken about a week ago near Durham, NC. ...

U. Maryland Still a Hotbed of Anti-Israel Activism

Arizona State U. Administrator Admits School Conceals DEI Instruction Despite Federal Ban

Lipscomb U. Facing Lawsuit Over Allegation That Students are Getting Sick From Black Mold

Conservative Legal Group Urges DOJ Probe of Top Research University Over Alleged Illegal DEI Practices

Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can't Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000

Brown University Killer Recorded Video Confessions After Shootings

Texas Roadrunners and oil industry eagerly await feds Dunes Sagebrush Lizard decision

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 29 Comments

This is an update to my prior post about the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, which may shut down a lot of the oil exploration and production in West Texas if the lizard receives endagered species status. Via reader, photographer (also here), and music impresario Danelle, the decision may come as soon as...

Were charges of “scientific misconduct” against Elizabeth Warren ever fully vetted?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 27 Comments

On June 4, I wrote that The vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s academic background begins. That post featured a scathing law review article by a well-regarded Rutgers law professor in 1990-1991 who accused Elizabeth Warren and her co-authors of a book on bankruptcy of a wide range of academic offenses. ...

Allen West on new District: “No one ambushes me”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 23 Comments

You will remember the outrage which swept the airwaves when redistricting by the Republican legislature redistricted Allen West out of existence. There was a heated dispute whether West was targeted or just the victim of circumstance dictated by law. West ended up switching districts. West discussed it...

Left and right agree: We don’t need no concern-trolling NYT op-eds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 22 Comments

Steve Almond writes in The NY Times, Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One: This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal. We choose to see ourselves as innocent victims of an escalating right-wing fanaticism. But too often we serve as...

Native American Harvard alumna and lifelong Dem accuses Elizabeth Warren of “ethnic fraud”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 54 Comments

There have been protests by Cherokees and other Native American groups over Elizabeth Warren's continued insistence that she is Native American despite the complete lack of evidence to sustantiate that claim and substantial evidence that the claim is not true. Now a Harvard graduate, Margo (Kickingbird)...

The “best” “worst” Obama-adoring video (Reader Poll)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 48 Comments

Consider this the opening of a time capsule from a gentler, kinder, more delusional era, when love of composite Obama swept the land. In my post Sunday, It made you happy, but it was that bad, I asked readers for suggestions for the best worst Obama-adoring...

I know exile, exile is a friend of mine, and you, Sir, are not in exile

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 14 Comments

Exile? If you think being conservative in Lee County, Florida, is being in "exile," there's this bridge in Ithaca I'd like to sell you. From reader John: In Westchester County, NY. I saw the sticker out of the corner of my eye and expected to see a license...

Warren v. Brown is the new Wisconsin Recall

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 61 Comments

If you love Daily Kos, Van Jones and Keith Ellison, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. If you love public employee unions running the state, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. If you loved the Wisconsin Recall, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. The big union and Hollywood money and progressive media machine are...

Mother Jones chickenhawks James O’Keefe at Netroots Nation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 20 Comments

James O'Keefe is loathed on the left almost on a par with what Andrew Breitbart experienced. From ACORN to NPR to voter fraud in 2012, O'Keefe and his camera have caused havoc. Yet when blogger Adam Weinstein of Mother Jones approached O'Keefe this year at Netroots Nation, they had...

It made you happy, but it was that bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 81 Comments

What the hell were we thinking? By "we" I don't mean me or most of the readers here. By "we" I mean the nation, which fell in love with composite Obama. So now she's not feeling the love no more. (Daily Caller via Instapundit.) Amber Lee Ettinger, widely known...

Argument at Netroots 2012 over Obama abandoning Walker Recall

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 21 Comments

It only took one panel discussion at Netroots to reveal just how divided the left is in its narrative over how to handle Wisconsin. Audience member Lisa Graves from The Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch, upset with the panel's analysis of Obama's interaction with the Wisconsin...

Counting the cars on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 11 Comments

They've all gone to look for America. Another one from Sandy's road trip, taken on the Pennsylvania Turnpike west of Pittsburgh by a: guy who appeared to be a miserable creature, whose mom would even have a hard time trying to love, and we know a mother's...