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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

Happy Mothers Day to every unapologetic mom fighting in the trenches

Posted by Anne Segal on May 13, 2012 18 Comments

This Mothers Day we are all given the opportunity to step back and thank our mothers for the often thankless job of bringing us up. This year in particular, I'd like to give a shout-out to the type of mother who just makes the liberals...

I wonder if Obama polled the class warfare thing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2012 12 Comments

or if he is just a true believer. I know the answer. It's who he is. Unlike gay marriage, where he was willling to play the game, publicly taking positions based on what helped him with voters or donors, when it comes to class warfare as political...

Romney and our American culture

Posted by Anne Segal on May 13, 2012 24 Comments

Saturday, Mitt Romney addressed the graduation crowd gathered at Liberty University with a strong but broad defense of the role of Judeo-Christian values in America: Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition, with its vision of the goodness and possibilities of every life...

If only

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2012 11 Comments

Can I hold you to that promise? From Kathy, looks like it came from the same vehicle as yesterday's post: ...

Bad news for Obama, Michigan in play

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 16 Comments

Barack Obama crushed John McCain in Michigan in 2008, 57.33%-40.89%. Obama must win Michigan in 2012, it's part of every scenario for him to get to 270: Yet a poll just released in the Detroit News shows Obama up by only 5 points over Romney, via The Hill: President Obama...

Young Democratic Socialists of America at U. Oregon Demand Abortion Drugs on Campus

Northwestern Received Taxpayer Dollars to Fund ‘Safe Space Ambassadors’

Education Dept. Finds U. Minnesota Discriminated Against Whites, Asians

Women in Academia Create New Term: 'Scholarly Harassment'

Penn State Students Protest ICE, Block Traffic in Solidarity With Renee Good

St. John’s University Continues to Block Approval of Turning Point USA

Saturday Night Card Game (Blacklist gets blacklisted)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 28 Comments

Via The Daily Mail (Britain): Police chiefs have banned the word ‘blacklist’ over fears it is racist. They have also struck out its opposite – ‘whitelist’ – which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts. Scotland Yard employees have been told to use...

“In Hol.lywood a hero, In the Heartland a zero”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 10 Comments

A prediction of limerickal justice in the comments at HuffPo (h/t friend of LI blog Huff-Watch): His conflict resolved, his evolution complete. Thanks for the check it'll help him compete. But what of the election? The forecast is re.je.ction. Short term gain, long term de.fe.at! And another: How bout our Preezy, has a really...

They say you want an education

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 13 Comments

well, you know, we all want to change your world view. Part 2 here. And remember Hannity's interview with one of the yutes....

Perplexing strategy over at Young Guns Super PAC

Posted by Anne Segal on May 12, 2012 17 Comments

Young Guns Super PAC might need to adjust its "decision matrix." Chagrined after the Young-Guns-endorsed Lugar was defeated by challenger Mourdock, and then caught up in the messy ouster of the most conservative congressman in Illinois, Don Manzullo, they are now saddled with the news that...

Oh shut up, we’ve got a football to spike here

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 25 Comments

From The Guardian in Britain: Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The Guardian has...

472 Ann Romney Blouses = 1 Michelle Obama Spanish Vacation

Posted by Anne Segal on May 12, 2012 48 Comments

How many designer blouses could the taxpayers buy Michelle Obama in exchange for the cost of her Spanish vacation? Anne Sorock That's right, the taxpayers could have taken the $467,585 they spent for Michelle's summer vacay to Spain and purchased 492 of Ann Romney's much discussed Reed...

Why didn’t this movement start

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 13 Comments

oh, say, 29 years ago? I might have marched with you. Another one from Kathy, taken in Harrisonburg, VA: ...

WaPo’s Lord of the Lies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 54 Comments

It started out as a massive 5000-word hit piece on Mitt Romney reminiscent of what The Washington Post did to Rick Perry about a rock on his family hunting ground. WaPo put a reporter (or more) on the case and apparently spared no effort to find...

Genealogist for Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Cherokee claim goes silent, source document shown false

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 88 Comments

The claim that Elizabeth Warren was 1/32 Cherokee has been suspect from the start, yet the media repeats the claim as if it were documented. Now the last documentary hope that Warren could prove she is 1/32 Cherokee has been foreclosed by Michael Patrick Leahy writing this afternoon...

Democrats trained to allege Republicans use racially-coded phrases

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 38 Comments

Is there any part of the Democratic campaign agenda that is not planned out and contrived? As you know, the deliberate use of the race card to advanced the Democratic Party agenda has been documented here hundreds of times. An article at The Washington Examiner, House Dems trained to make...

Vidal Sassoon, fighter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 20 Comments

Vidal Sassoon died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 84. Known mostly as a name-brand in hair styling, upon reading of his death I learned a lot more about the man, and wondered why I didn't know more before. From The Times of Israel: A veteran of...

Amateurs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 19 Comments

While studiously avoiding and evading any investigation of Barack Obama's "youth" (i.e. the period prior to his running for President) or devoting resources to any of the many scandals (selling guns to Mexican drug lords, politicizing along racial lines the Justice Department, etc.) which would...