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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

“our liberty depends on the freedom of the press …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 34 Comments

and that cannot be limited without being lost." On the other hand: And so it was written, and so it is done (at 5:45): "In New York City, which you're visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you...

Here we go: Lugar up only single digits over Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 12 Comments

This is very big news (h/t Pwire), as it punctures the Richard Lugar air of inevitability: U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar is in the most precarious position of his political career since autumn 1974 when he unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh. A Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll released...

DOJ files letter with 5th Circuit affirming judicial authority

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 53 Comments

The DOJ just filed its letter to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the authority of federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of congressional laws. The letter was signed by Eric Holder, and says in pertinent part: The longstanding, historical position ofthe United States...

Zimmerman racial slur narrative falling apart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 40 Comments

As with so much else in this case, the original media report of George Zimmerman using the pejorative "coons," which has been accepted as true and then repeated endlessly by the left blogosphere and mainstream media, now is in doubt. An enhanced analysis now appears to...

Some election integrity in Wisconsin is more equal (Update: Nickolaus steps aside)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 12 Comments

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an editorial today calling on Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus to resign prior to the June 5 recall elections because of her late reporting of votes in the Prosser-Kloppenberg contest last year and in the recent Republican primary. In neither...

Foreign Policy Analyst Suggests Shutting Down College Middle Eastern Studies Departments

DEI Policies Have Caused Real Harm to Young White Men

U. Oklahoma Fires Instructor Who Failed Student for Citing Bible in Essay on Gender

Elementary School Principal Fired Over Antisemitic Remarks in Voicemail He Thought Had Stopped Recording

Christmas Classic: Hillsdale College Choir Performs ‘O Holy Night’

Metropolitan State U. of Denver Rejects Standard American English in the Name of ‘Anti-Racism’

Christie on the Golan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 13 Comments

Chris Christie is visiting Israel, and got a chance to look out at Syria from the Golan Heights. Tweet of the Day from @jennaportnoy: ...

Conservatives better wake up to anti-conservative boycott movements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments

You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called "independent" groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh from...

New neighborhood watchman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 22 Comments

Um, there's so much I could say, so many comparisons I could make. But I'm not going to go there. Because he knows who has been naughty, and I don't want to get fishy flagged or end up on an #attackwatch list like Fuzzy. From a reader who...

If Romney loses to Obama, it will be because of his supporters not his opponents

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 88 Comments

You knew this was coming, the attempt to blame a Romney loss to Obama on comments made about Romney by other candidates. Jamie Weinstein at The Daily Caller (via HotAir) writes that Newt's legacy will be that his criticisms of Romney will be featured in Obama...

“I find your comments … borderline offensive”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 32 Comments

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was interviewed by Doug McIntyre of California radio station 790 KABC regarding Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was named Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. McIntyre ripped into Villaraigosa's record, to which Wasserman-Schultz responded: "I really find your comments disappointing and borderline offensive." Borderline offensive? Offensive...

Anti-Romney conservatives are “like birthers”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 52 Comments

I knew I shouldn't have looked back. I have not read Jennifer Rubin in weeks. She has become so odious in her Romneyquest that reading her posts is like sipping poison; it doesn't kill you but it makes you nauseated. Every time I read one of her insulting...

If you are going to keep your laws off their bodies …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 82 Comments

on what basis would sex-selective abortion be regulated? I previously highlighted the problem, When A Woman’s Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women – In The U.S. Via James Pethokoukis comes this article about the spread of sex-selective abortion in the U.S., Unwelcome import: Sex selective abortion: I’d read...

Onto something, or just making mischief?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 37 Comments

Via Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters: ...

Audio expert in Martin case demanded at least six similar voice exemplars in prior case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 30 Comments

The big headline for the past several days has been that an audio expert hired by The Orlando Sentinel, Thomas J. Owen, had concluded that the person screaming for help on the 911 tape when a neighbor called in was not George Zimmerman because voice biometric analysis of the...

Some carbon footprints are more equal than others

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 6 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee, taken in late December at the Sportsmans Grill, Franklin TN, sent with the note: Mine is still not equal to Air Force One and Air Force Two jetting off to Hawaii for the tenth vacay of the year. ...

I think polls close tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 22 Comments

Somewhere. If so, and if there are results, at some point I'll get around to it. (As I'm writing, Romney wins big in MD)(and also, Wisconsin, now) In the meantime, some updates from prior topics (and maybe some new): Details on the plane crash which killed the founder...

It’s the forensics, stupid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 27 Comments

Piers Morgan interviewed crime writer Patricia Cornwell as to how critical forensics -- such as bullet distance and trajectory -- will be. Since no one, except perhaps the investigators, has that evidence so far, anyone who is speculating on what happend is just speculating. The transcript is...