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Democrats Think They're Winning Back Men and Rural Voters in 2026

MTG's Exit Interview with The NY Times: Scorn, Self-Pity, and a Rewrite of History

MIT "Womxn" Only Physics and Bio Grad Programs Challenged by Equal Protection Project

But they said it would stop at “forward”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2012 9 Comments

From reader "Joe" (or was it "Tom"?) who asked not to use even his real first name because "I'd like my children to keep their playmates": Saw these on the back of an SUV on Bainbridge Island, Washington. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Island,_Washington) This is the first time I've seen an...

Did Elizabeth Warren try to game the system?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 27 Comments

The Elizabeth Warren story is not about whether she is 1/32nd Cherokee. Questions persist as to why Warren listed herself as Native American, a fact as to which she had no proof until yesterday, only in a publication almost exclusively used by other law professors and Deans during a time...

Breaking from Bagram: We still are not worthy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 25 Comments

Obama's speech from Afghanistan, standing in front of military vehicles at Bagram Air Base, was fairly predictable. Yet in this moment of spiking the football, Obama needed to remind us that we are not yet worthy as a nation (emphasis mine): Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, coast guardsmen...

We are in the best of hands

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 42 Comments

This video, via The NY Sun, is brutal, as Kathleen Sebelius is taken to school by Trey Gowdy (R-SC): An account of the hearing was issued by the Catholic News Agency. It’s almost painful to read. The secretary admits she was unaware of legal precedents confirming...

Obama in Afghanistan – Spike it really hard, with everything you have

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 44 Comments

Breaking news is that Obama has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan to sign a security agreement and will hold a 7:30 p.m. address to the nation from Bagram Air Force Base. At what point does this all backfire? It's so transparently political taking place on...

Police Investigating Antisemitic Incidents at Michigan State U.

The Teaching of Western Civilization is Being Neglected at Harvard

New Legislation Would Require Students in New York State to Learn About January 6th

Judge Orders Secret Hearing of Alleged Charlie Kirk Killer to be Made Public

Brown University Implements Campus Security Overhaul in Wake of Shooting

Nikole Hannah-Jones Writes Tribute to Cop Killer Assata Shakur

Romney 2007: “We’ll move everything to get him … he is going to pay and he will die”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 32 Comments

Obama has launched an attack ad quoting Romney as saying he would not "move heaven and earth" to get Osama bin Laden and suggesting Romney would not have given the go ahead. This coverage is typical: Considering what a big deal AxelPlouffe and the media are making, it amazes me...

Lugar seeks to take Mourdock down with him

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 21 Comments

I have serious problems with Dick Lugar's record, particularly on his alleged foreign policy expertise. As documented here, Lugar has engaged in repeated wishful thinking on Iran (one more post in the series still to come), and irresponsibly vouched for Obama's foreign policy credentials just three...

Newt: “All of us have an obligation to do everything we can to defeat Barack Obama”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 21 Comments

I thanked Newt the other day. Newt thanks his supporters today, and has released a video in which he reiterates the need to defeat Barack Obama. There aren't going to be sour grapes or pouting. He's bigger than that, even if his enemies aren't. ...

Should the Obama team be courting Nascar fans?

Posted by Anne Segal on May 01, 2012 48 Comments

Now the Obama marketing team is enticing donors with the opportunity to name put your name on a stock car: Congressman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina writes: Regardless of whether you have had an opportunity to see a race on TV or experience the roar of a stock...

Elizabeth Warren’s drop of Cherokee blood

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 56 Comments

Yesterday I posted about how Elizabeth Warren's campaign acknowledged that she self-identified as Native American on forms she filled out for the Association of American Law Schools in the mid-1980s through 1994, but that she still was searching for the genealogical evidence to support her...

Support the 2012th Amendment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 2 Comments

by voting on November 6 for a change. Attached is a bumper/window treatment about coexistence I can support. Seen in the parking lot of a medical office building in South Florida. Thanks for your efforts. Fair Winds, Dave ...

The Cornell Review

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2012 11 Comments

The conservative undergraduate bi-weekly newspaper on campus, The Cornell Review, has a new website where you can read the newspaper in a pretty cool viewer. Kathleen is the Executive Editor. Pretty soon they will integrate the Cornell Insider, the blog affiliate, into the website. The Cornell Review also...

Confirmed – Elizabeth Warren knowingly self-identified as Native American on law association forms

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2012 47 Comments

Democratic Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren has been all over the newspapers the past several days after a revelation that Harvard Law School identified her as a Native American faculty member in the mid-1990s. The claim to Native American status came as a shock to the...

In my windiest dreams

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2012 38 Comments

and with all the mockery I have heaped on Obama and windmills, I could not have dreamed up this headline and story, Wind farms may have warming effect - research: Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United...

Obama campaign unveils “Forward” slogan

Posted by Anne Segal on April 30, 2012 77 Comments

Today the Obama campaign unveiled "Forward," a seven-minute video highlighting his campaign strategy for the election: Similar to the 2008 concept, "Change," this one-word slogan captures a vague sense of movement without articulating a strategy, end, or principle. The movement this terms evokes is no more than...

“a campus atmosphere that is unwelcoming” … to men

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2012 29 Comments

It should be obvious to anyone who has attended almost any liberal arts college in the past 40 years that there is no War on Women on campuses. Just the opposite is true; by almost all measures women have achieved numerical and political superiority on campus, yet...

Living for the weekend

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2012 0 Comments

Some things in a fairly active weekend: Why isn't the Mourdock campaign talking about Dick Lugar and Iran? Sarah for Mourdock I believe, I believe Newt a “RINO among Rhinos”? Obama got Osama, but lost the Middle East Mia B. Love: “We’re not about singling Americans out” The shot heard round the...