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Appeals Court Upholds No-Bond Detention Of Illegal Aliens In Huge Win For Trump

Red, White — and Ashamed? Team USA Skiers Bash the US

Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?

It pains me to say

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 17, 2012 57 Comments

that both the Bain and tax return issues were entirely predictable and in fact predicted. No sense piling on, but remaining silent might be worse. Defenses of Bain which worked in the primaries -- you hate capitalism -- don't necessarily work in the general. Show why Bain...

U.S. Treasury staffer solicited hookers

Posted by Anne Segal on July 17, 2012 7 Comments

A freedom of information request revealed several incidents of major ethical breaches at the Department of Treasury, involving the solicitation of prostitutes using a government resources as well conflict of interest concerns. This is the latest in a string of embarrassments and scandals for the Obama...

Mia B. Love on Hannity: “The hope and change we would like to see happen lies in people” not government

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 17, 2012 6 Comments

Mia B. Love appeared on the Sean Hannity Show last night. The topic of the Barack Obama / Elizabeth Warren theory that people owe their success to government came up: Meanwhile, Love had a good fundraising quarter, tying incumbent Jim Matheson, but lags far behind because Matheson...

Someone could not be reached for comment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 17, 2012 8 Comments

From reader Peter: I saw your latest “Fakes” post and decided to share – I was visiting my 83 year old mom who lives on Chappaquiddick Island (part of Martha’s Vineyard) just last week. It’s a lovely place and certainly is a playground of the rich, but...

With release of molestation tape, Zimmerman case moves further towards injustice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2012 154 Comments

The release of an audio tape by an unnamed woman who claims George Zimmerman molested her starting when he was 8 and she was 6 is perhaps the most outrageous attempt to taint the jury pool yet. Via Orlando Sentinel: A woman told authorities that murder suspect...

University of Houston Hit With Third Armed Robbery on Campus This Year

UC-Berkeley Prof Substitutes Exam for Creating Wikipedia Pages About 'Queer and Trans People of Color'

U. Minnesota Prof Allegedly Conducted an ‘ICE Drill’ in Class

Pro-Palestinian Activism on College Campuses is Based on a Muslim Brotherhood Blueprint

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Scale Back Gifted Programs in NYC Schools

Diversity Hiring Has Backfired on Higher Education

Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama – government supremacists cut from the same cloth

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2012 35 Comments

Neither Elizabeth Warren nor Barack Obama ever created anything. They have suckled at the teat of the taxpayer most of their lives and for almost all of their professional accomplishments. Without government, Elizabeth Warren would be a nameless academic in a lowly regarded area of academia...

TSA misses deadline to hold public comment period on “naked scanners”

Posted by Anne Segal on July 16, 2012 14 Comments

On July 25, 2011, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the TSA must act "promptly" to hold a public comment period and adopt rules and regulations regarding its use of body scanners in U.S. airports. Nearly a year later, the TSA has yet to comply...

Video – Cherokees to Elizabeth Warren: “You can’t even look me in the eye”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2012 15 Comments

The group Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren has released a video about their trip to Boston, when Warren refused to meet with them. The women wanted to provide Warren with documentary evidence of her genealogy showing that Warren was not Cherokee, and to present her...

Okay Mr. President, we can talk about the past

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on July 16, 2012 36 Comments

After all, he asked for it. In a recent campaign appearance in Virginia, the President remarked: Ultimately, I think, Mr. Romney is going to have to answer those questions because if he aspires to being president, one of the things you learn is you're ultimately responsible...

Great Britain’s doctors and nurses poised to strike after cost-cutting measures leaked

Posted by Anne Segal on July 16, 2012 37 Comments

Britain's National Health Services' plans to "avert a funding crisis" by cutting doctors' and nurses' salaries by around 5 percent, along with some receiving cuts in overtime and vacation, have been leaked. The organization representing Britain's doctors and nurses, the British Medical Association, has yet to...

Elizabeth Warren has memorized her Indian lines

Posted by Anne Segal on July 16, 2012 23 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has developed a story line to counter questions about her claims to Native American, minority, and woman of color status based upon family lore that has no documentary support. But only when you compare her recent response during a Patch.com livechat with her own...

When poverty comes to America, it will be driving a $22k Jeep Patriot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2012 30 Comments

Apparently. From reader and frequent photographer Bill in Florida: Saw this jeep Patriot with the "I'm too poor to vote republican" sticker on it. New they run about $22,000. ...

Invasion of the photo snatcher

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2012 31 Comments

The hostess and others looked at me with such smiles as I snapped several photos. We all shared the pride, or so they thought. I looked just like they did. They thought I was one of them. But little did they know. Taken at Tacolicious, San Francisco: ...

Weiner links phone to facebook–sign of things to come?

Posted by Anne Segal on July 15, 2012 25 Comments

Congressman Anthony Weiner may be taking steps to return the the political fray. The New York Post reports that the congressman is "desperate" to return to politics, and with a large campaign chest he has the money to do it. The disgraced former congressman — who’s...

Left declares “meme” victory in #retroactive comments by Gillespie

Posted by Anne Segal on July 15, 2012 34 Comments

This morning on Face the Nation, Ed Gillespie commented that Romney "retired retroactively" from Bain Capital after questions about exactly what year the candidate retired have come to light. Romney left Bain to rescue the beleagured Salt Lake City Olympics, detailed in his book "Turnaround."...

I miss Dick Cheney

Posted by Anne Segal on July 15, 2012 19 Comments

Thursday night former Vice President Dick Cheney held a fundraiser at his home in Jackson, WY, for Mitt Romney. During his remarks, Cheney stressed Romney's ability to handle the foreign-policy decisions that a commander-in-chief faces, while Romney cautioned that Obama's foreign-policy mistakes may have even...

The Big 6-0(00)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2012 13 Comments

It's all a matter of perspective. I had dinner with a group of people last night, and one of the women was pregnant for the first time at age 37. Her husband commented that he was going to buy the kid a onesie that said "Now...