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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

Political calculations from the left prove they need a new calculator. And other news from the day

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on April 10, 2012 42 Comments

The big news of the day is obviously Rick Santorum's decision to suspend his Presidential campaign following his 3-year old daughter's most recent bout with pneumonia which landed her in the hospital over the weekend. This sudden turn of events brings two big questions on...

Bad start to Huckabee radio show – 1st caller turns out to be Cumulus exec

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 23 Comments

I have posted before how Cumulus Broadcasting, cheered on by Rush boycotters, is setting up Mike Huckabee to challenge Rush. Jeffrey Lord has the story how Huckabee Show Opens With Staged Caller: Wow. As we often say here: you just can't make it up. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took...

Bad psychology is only one click away…

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 10, 2012 11 Comments

If you don't already, I recommend subscribing to Minding the Campus, a web-based mag focused on the American university from The Manhattan Institute. Today, John Leo has a fun post titled "One Result of Income Inequality--Dubious Psychological Studies." As an academic specialty, psychology suffers from a...

Santorum suspends campaign

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 214 Comments

Just breaking, via NY Times: Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, according two of his advisers, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the fall. Mr....

Gawker editor responsible for Christine O’Donnell “one night stand” story joins NY Post

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 8 Comments

What possibly could go wrong? Remy Stern, who left Gawker late last year after Nick Denton installed A.J. Daulerio as editor-in-chief, has a new gig: He's joining the New York Post as a digital consultant. "Remy will help shape the Post's overall digital strategy going forward and...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Miami New Times doubles down on Sanford (FL) neo-Nazi patrol story

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 19 Comments

Michael Miller, The Miami New Times reporter who kicked off an internet firestorm a few days ago with a report of armed groups of neo-Nazis patrolling Sanford, Florida, is at it again, After Trayvon Martin, Neo-Nazis Say They're Armed and Patrolling Sanford. The account, again, is...

Best case scenario

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 7 Comments

at least if one is dealing with reality rather than hope, is that Obamacare increases the deficit dramatically: President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next...

Lugar “effort to demonize his opponent Richard Mourdock”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 9 Comments

Richard Lugar's time in the Senate may be up. A variety of groups are working to defeat Lugar. The NRA (which gives Lugar an "F" rating), the Club for Growth, and Freedom Works are working to help Richard Mourdock overcome Lugar's big money advantage. Notice how Lugar is hitting...

Has Carbonite accepted responsibility?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 25 Comments

Carbonite has been flying below the radar the past few weeks, as companies like Arby's have incurred the wrath of conservatives for pandering to the Media Matters inspired and coordinated attempt to drive Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. Carbonite was the most visible and self-righteous of the advertisers...

As if more proof were needed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 15 Comments

From reader Ulises, who took this photo in Cockeysville, MD, and writes: Further proof that buyers of "coexist" bumper stickers have no sense of irony...

Why they want him off the air so badly

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 11 Comments

He's effective. And if they can't get him off the air completely, they want to marginalize him. ...

NY Daily News whitewashes its Sanford neo-Nazi faux pas

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 39 Comments

What James Taranto has dubbed the Wild Goose-Step Chase appears to be winding down, as outlandish reports by Michael Miller in The Miami New Times of neo-Nazis "conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida" were debunked by your humble correspondent over the weekend. But not...

Obligatory Question of Day – How many “Eric Holders” can you fit in a voting booth?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 35 Comments

Not only don't you need to show an i.d. to vote, apparently you don't even need to verify you are the voter, you just need to ask for the voter's ballot, then play dumb. Via Breitbart: In a new video (below) provided to Breitbart.com, James O’Keefe’s Project...

No grand jury in Trayvon Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 43 Comments

The Special Prosecutor in Florida just announced that she will not take the case to the Grand Jury which was expected to start this week: The Florida special prosecutor investigating the Trayvon Martin shooting has decided not to use a grand jury, but says that should...

Obama’s war on the Supreme Court is working

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

for us. Rasmussen Reports, Supreme Court’s Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings: Just before the highly publicized hearing on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court had fallen to the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Now, following the...

Arby’s getting roasted with beefs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 21 Comments

There has been a lot of attention paid to Arby's announcement that it no longer would advertise on the Limbaugh show. It was particularly interesting because Arby's did not advertise to begin with, so it purely was a political statement, and was the subject of a...

Diminished expectations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2012 23 Comments

Back in '08, you thought he was gonna change it and rearrange it, he was gonna change the world. Now, a little progress is good enough. Spotted in Ithaca: ...