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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

Rush Babes intended consequence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 30 Comments

Rush Limbaugh launched a Facebook Page called Rush Babes for America, intended to show that more women support him than support the National Organization for Women. And sure enough, Rush Babes already has more followers than the NOW page, and NOW is griping. The impetus for Rush...

#LandOfTheGullible

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 33 Comments

I just want to get this straight. Everyone knew Obama supported gay marriage, but didn't say so when campaigning for president in 2008 and 2012 for political reasons. Everyone knew the "evolving" meme was BS, Obama was just waiting for the right moment, preferably after re-election. Everyone knew...

Elizabeth Warren’s clear path to victory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 18 Comments

Keep calling attention to this video, over and over again, as part of an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, via Politico: The Massachusetts Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, alleging that Brown has used official resources for campaign purposes. The complaint focuses on footage of...

Richard Mourdock money bomb

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 16 Comments

It's not enough for Operation Counterweight to get a candidate through the primary. We need to support the candidate immediately to keep the momentum going. Richard Mourdock is not running to the left (often mischaracterized as running to the center) one bit. Listen to this interview, which has the mainstream...

Countdown to Obama’s gay marriage gutsy call (Update – Not so gutsy call, supports personally but leaves it to states)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 51 Comments

Of course Obama supports gay marriage. Of course once he is free of the need to get reelected he will do everything within the power of the Executive Branch to effect a de facto federal policy change. Of course he has not been truthful with...

U. Alabama Professors Launch Appeal, Claiming That DEI Ban is 'Censorship'

MIT Professor Shot and Killed in His Boston Area Home

R.I.P. - Conservative Icon Norman Podhoretz Passes Away at Age 95

Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Yet another futile boycott of an entire state

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 38 Comments

I don't think we've had a boycott of an entire state in a while. California was boycotted over Prop. 8, and so was Utah because it has a lot of Mormons. There also was a Mormon boycott, a boycott of a hotel whose owner supported Prop. 8,...

Wisconsin’s Walker and Kleefisch enter homestretch

Posted by Anne Segal on May 09, 2012 17 Comments

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will face Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) in the general recall election on June 5, 2012, after both won primary recall elections in their respective parties. Walker previously defeated Barrett in the 2010 governor's race by 5 percentage points. Ballotpedia reports...

Hey West Virginia, you’ll get yours my pretty, and your little federal inmate too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 31 Comments

Oh man, has there ever been a bigger LMAO than this? Obama Loses West Virginia Delegates To Prison Inmate An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president...

Stolen Cherokee Valor

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 29 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's narrative of being a descendant of the Cherokee people emboldened Warren not only to consider herself Native American, but also to identify with the most victimized of the victimized. One doesn't have to be a scholar of Native American history to know of the Trail of Tears. ...

Mashugana

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 15 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Richard Mourdock wins Indiana primary

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 46 Comments

It was a blow out, more than anyone expected. At latest count it looks like a 20 point win. Mourdocks victory speech was great. I'll post it when it is available. (Now available at Right Scoop but no embed) For now, you'll have to do with a photo: Elsewhere: Looks like Tom...

Indiana primary results // Update: NBC calls race for Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 49 Comments

Opening new post for post-results -- problems with embedded tweet codes here. % Reporting - 95 Mourdock - 60 Lugar - 40 Sen. John Kerry: Sen. Lugar's defeat is a "tragedy for the Senate" #INSEN— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) May 9, 2012 Obama: As a friend and former colleague, I want to...

Losing our liberty one day at a time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 6 Comments

From Peter Suderman at Reason, Obama Administration Security Official: We Don't Need to Subpoena Reporters Anymore Because We Already Know Who They're Talking To: Wasserman's blistering indictment of the Obama administration's hyper-aggressive pursuit of government whistleblowers, first delivered at April's Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism, is...

Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 102 Comments

Throughout her career and political campaign, Elizabeth Warren has found victims everywhere she looked, including when she looked in the mirror and saw an alleged descendant of one of the most historically victimized groups, Native Americans. In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it...

Chronicle of Higher Ed gives in to social media mob

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 43 Comments

I have warned you about the total war, in which petitions and boycotts and other pressure tactics are used to silence conservative voices. There is no better example than a case reported in the NY Post via National Review (h/t Jonah Goldberg) about a blogger at The...

Is there an endorsement in there someplace?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 20 Comments

Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney via an overnight e-mail sent to supporters. Here's the link to the e-mail (h/t Politico). Is there an endorsement in there someplace? Yeah, I guess there is, but it's buried in paragraph 13 and half-hearted: Above all else, we both agree that President...

Dear Indiana: It’s time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 10 Comments

"It's time" has been Richard Mourdock's campaign theme. "It's time" captured beautifully why it's time to retire Dick Lugar: Too long in office, too long in Washington, D.C., too long considering himself to be the office he holds, too willing to go along to get along,...