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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

Elizabeth Warren “linked” to ruin of low cost catastrophic health insurance

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2012 31 Comments

In early June 2009, long before Scott Brown would emerge as the 41st vote, and even longer before Brown would be challenged in the 2012 Senate race by Elizabeth Warren, Warren was the darling of the push for Obamacare. Warren released a study showing that over...

Romney’s been down this tax return road before, and it’s a dead end

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2012 51 Comments

Is this really happening again? Is Mitt Romney refusing, even assuming he is the nominee which looks likely, to release any more tax returns? Romney released his 2010 return and projections for 2011 only after a disastrous couple of weeks of refusing to do so. I predicted...

Signs of desperation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2012 11 Comments

From fellow Central (Upstate) New Yorker Fred: I am a fan of your blog. I also enjoy the seeing bumper stickers from around the country. How about one from our backyard? I saw this one on a Prius at the Liverpool, NY YMCA. I was walking at...

Disturbed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 54 Comments

There is something seriously disturbed with Lawrence O'Donnell. Who ever thought we would long for the days of Keith Olbermann. A lawyer representing an accused has no obligation to present defense evidence on television. O'Donnell knows that, his outrage is feigned and phony. O'Donnell is not...

Arianna Huffington defeats liberal bloggers who made her richer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 35 Comments

I posted previously about Ariann Huffington's business model, Hey HuffPo Bloggers – Was It Fun Working For Free To Make Arianna Richer?: First, let me congratulate Arianna Huffington on selling The Huffington Post to AOL for a reported $315 million. Isn’t America a great place? Arianna came...

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

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

What if you threw a Two Million Man Global March on Jerusalem, and almost no one showed up?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 14 Comments

The Global March on Jersusalem has been promoted for months as a means by which up to two million people would crash Israel's borders. Israel geared up, and issued warnings. And waited. And waited. And all that showed up were a few thousand people at the Gaza border (forced...

NOT BREAKING NEWS on Zimmerman being bloodied

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 57 Comments

This is getting ridiculous. The police report prepared the night of the Trayvon Martin shooting, long before it was expected that this case would get national attention, recited that the police observed Zimmerman with a bloody nose and rear head bleeding, and that Zimmerman was treated...

Obligations and Voluntary Actions

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 30, 2012 6 Comments

The new Libertarianism.org has amassed a bunch of great essays from CATO scholars and the like. One of my (very) recent favorites is from Aaron Ross Powell, who discusses the nature of political obligation in How We Might Become Politically Obligated, a follow up to...

The perfect Palin-Breitbart Conspiracy World theory

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 20 Comments

Today in South Carolina politics: Rumors are swirling based on rumors of rumors that Nikki Haley is going to be indicted for something she did or didn't do almost a decade ago in connection with her family's fundraising to build a Sikh Temple. She denies any...

What would Teddy say if Obamacare goes down?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 22 Comments

I'm not predicting that the mandate or the entirety of Obamacare will go down at the Supreme Court. But based on the oral arguments, those who support the law are in a state of panic. Digging back into Memeorandum from March 23, 2010, when Obamacare was signed into...

A tale of two videos of RI Guardsman killed saving girl in Afghanistan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 9 Comments

Rhode Island Guardsman died saving Afghan girl: According to the Rhode Island National Guard and the U.S. Army, [Spc. Dennis] Weichel was in a convoy a week ago with his unit in Laghman Province, in northeast Afghanistan. Some children were in the road in front of...

I’m WSRM, and I’m Proud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 20 Comments

Feeling a little unloved these days, are you? You have nothing to be ashamed of, you can't help being who you are. After all, no one would chose to be that way in this society. From reader Michael, his very own "message board": This is the bumber sticker message...

Yeah, we were serious

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 61 Comments

Circa October 22, 2009: Circa March 25, 2010: Circa March 26, 2010: Circa March 30, 2010: ...

Another low for academia: Anti-Israel “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” Conference at CUNY

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 34 Comments

You need no better example of how twisted parts of academia have become than to look at an anti-Israeli conference being organized at The City University of New York devoted to the issue of "homonationalism and pinkwashing." I have posted before about the "pinkwashing" charge leveled by anti-Israel...

The lifeboats are in the water at the Good Ship Obamacare Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 108 Comments

The challenge to the Obamacare mandate, long dismissed by the legal establishment and media as frivolous and almost unworthy of serious consideration, is on the cusp of victory at the Supreme Court. Credit a few lone legal voices, including at Volokh Conspiracy, with keeping the intellectual...

#StopRush turns into #MediaMattersStopped

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 63 Comments

Earlier this month Media Matters launched its most ferocious boycott effort ever to force Rush Limbaugh off the air by intimidating advertisers. It always was a charade, as documented here many times. Media Matters coordinated with "independent" groups to make it appear that there was a...

Zero

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 38 Comments

It's easy to find unanimous votes in favor of various bills and resolutions in the House of Representatives, but unanimously against? Let me know if this is truly historic, or just profoundly embarrassing for Obama: President Obama's budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in...