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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

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...

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...

Erika Kirk Says Turning Point USA Will Continue College Campus Debates

U. San Francisco to Employ AI in Admissions Process

U. Minnesota Profs Enter Third Year of Study on ‘Antiracist Parenting’

Credit Rating Agencies Issue Unfavorable Outlook for Higher Education in 2026

Instructor at British School 'Likened to a Terrorist' for Showing Videos of Trump in Class

Man Connected to Harvard Human Remains Scandal Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

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...

The Pitts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 8 Comments

From reader David: Seen in Democrat-friendly, labor union centric, Obama-G-20, Pittsburgh. Think the driver has any doubts? ...

“Nonviolent” Occupy Chicago march: “F*** the Police”

Posted by Anne Segal on May 15, 2012 64 Comments

Occupy Chicago held a "F** the Police" rally as they marched through the streets Tuesday night shouting "From Chicago to Greece, F*** the Police." A short video clip I took as the crowd was just beginning to form follows (language warning: not safe for work): Compared...

Broken nose, broken narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2012 43 Comments

The big news in the Trayvon Martin case, ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting: A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman...

MoveOn rips DNC in push for Wisconsin Recall funds

Posted by Anne Segal on May 15, 2012 29 Comments

MoveOn.org sent out an email late today blasting the DNC for refusing to invest in the recall Walker efforts in Wisconsin: Dear MoveOn member, BREAKING NEWS FROM WISCONSIN: The Democratic National Committee isn't investing in the massive get out the vote effort in Wisconsin to recall Scott Walker. Wisconsin...