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Kulaks Beware: Mamdani Orders Public Hearings To Shame "Ripoff" NYC Landlords

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction

Catchy tune of the Dog Days of April

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 7 Comments

Song of the Day (via Quiznilo in the Tip Line) Another catchy tune. Image of the Day (via Browndog in the comments) Don't believe the liberal media of the day. Yes, it it possible to go too far on the internet. Tax Day of the day. Embrace of the day (via...

Gloom and doom at chances of defeating Scott Walker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 21 Comments

or a way to motivate the opposition to Walker? You be the judge. The argument is that anti-Walker forces, particularly the younger newer voters, just aren't motivated. From Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN, Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall: The life-and-death struggle in Wisconsin to...

Ron Paul at Cornell

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 20, 2012 37 Comments

Last night, Ron Paul delivered a speech to over 4,000 people at Cornell's Lynah Rink. Naturally, I was part of the audience - it's not every day that a presidential candidate comes to Cornell and it's even rarer that I don't have any homework in...

Zimmerman bail hearing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 56 Comments

Here is George Zimmerman's testimony at the bail hearing this morning. I find it very curious as to why he took the stand at all, other than for publicity and to start reshaping his image for potential jurors. While the cross-examination was limited, you can see...

Anti-Israel sentiments in higher education: Not just for the Ivy League

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on April 20, 2012 5 Comments

This blog has often highlighted the pervasive anti-Israel sentiments present in the higher education system of this country. Last month, Cornell Professor of Physics, Yuval Grossman, wrote a guest post here regarding a pro-Palestinian Cornell student group attempting to orchestrate a boycott against a Technion-Cornell collaborative...

Conservative Legal Group Urges DOJ Probe of Top Research University Over Alleged Illegal DEI Practices

Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can't Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000

Brown University Killer Recorded Video Confessions After Shootings

Rider University Creates $2M ‘Hope’ Fund to Help Students Pay Tuition as it Faces Cuts, Layoffs

CU Boulder Prof Claims Trump’s Venezuela Action Shows U.S. is ‘Fascist Authoritarian Regime’

U. Houston Replacing Women and Gender Resource Center With Family Office

Taking over the institutions, just like Saul Alinsky wanted

Posted by Anne Segal on April 20, 2012 31 Comments

Coverage emerged yesterday of a recent conference held by Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) in Washington, DC. Among the breakout sessions, one entitled "The Church: Becoming Spiritually Fed and Feeding the Hungry" appears to have been especially ineptly titled given the actual content conveyed: The...

Zimmerman head photo bloodies those who politicized the case (Update: Zimmerman to be released on bail)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 65 Comments

I suspected this day would come, when all of those who jumped to politically driven conclusions about injuries or not to George Zimmerman would have to confront actual evidence. So now the Martin family attorney who went on television to proclaim Zimmerman a liar about suffering...

Dick Lugar at risk of losing Senate seat and reputation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 16 Comments

Dick Lugar has the reputation, deserved or not, of being the gentleman of the Senate, a now-grandfatherly figure who is well-liked personally if not politically. Lugar now is in the political fight of his life against Richard Mourdock. Lugar is fighting back, as I pointed out previously,...

I don’t know how much more of this positivity I can take

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2012 19 Comments

Considering some of the bumper stickers on this car, I wonder what the owner considers negativity. One person's positivity is another person's negativity, I guess. Spotted in Ithaca not too far from my house: ...

Sniper rifle manufacturer alleges political bias by Bank of America

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 45 Comments

McMillan International and its affiliates, based in Arizona, manufacture a variety of rifles and accessories, including highly regarding sniper rifles. A reader called to my attention a Facebook post by McMillan alleging that Bank of America terminated its lending relationship for political reasons based on McMillan's involvement...

First hookers, now Ted Nugent

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 31 Comments

CNN columnist LZ Granderson demanded an arrest: Ted Nugent should be arrested. Not because he doesn't like Barack Obama but because he got up in front of a group of people and insinuated he would attempt to assassinate Obama if he's re-elected. Or let's put it this...

When #StopRush met #ObamaDogRecipes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 5 Comments

The merger of the absurd and the surreal, or something like that. Tweet of the Day: For an ongoing display of both the absurd and the surreal, sometimes merged sometimes not, visit #StopRush. Related updates: Angie's List apparently still is holding out against the boycott, as is 1-800-Flowers, which...

Etan Patz

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 9 Comments

My wife and I were talking about him not long ago. For each of us, his disappearance left an indelible mark. Whenever there was a report of a missing child, we inevitably said, I wonder what happened to Etan Patz. video platform video management video solutions video...

The other front

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 21 Comments

It always has been a two front political war. Here's the other front, Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner, K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP: Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for...

U.N. Observers observe but not for long

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 7 Comments

UN monitors flee protest when Assad forces open fire: Syrian security forces opened fire Wednesday on anti-regime demonstrators surrounding the cars of a UN team meant to monitor a shaky cease-fire, sending the observers speeding off and protesters dashing for cover, according to activists and amateur...

Is “marrying up” really the conservative female ideal?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 50 Comments

With friends like this, those who want to defeat Obama don't need enemies. Having savaged Newt Gingrich for months, S.E. Cupp now is coming to the aid of Ann Romney by praising Ann for "marrying up": As a thirtysomething, city-dwelling, hypereducated, independent-thinking woman, I suppose I should...

Dick Lugar flailing with false tax accusations against Richard Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 13 Comments

The Indiana Republican primary is moving against Richard Lugar, and now his campaign and SuperPAC are getting desperate, running false ads against Richard Mourdock claiming Mourdock cheated on taxes. Matt Lewis at The Daily Caller explored the falsehood yesterday: In what appears a pathetic last gasp at...