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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Demonizer-In-Chief Upset People Demonize Him

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2010 29 Comments

Obama's line, in his Labor Day speech in Milwaukee before union leaders and a union crowd, that "[t]hey talk about me like a dog," is getting all the attention.But you really need to read the entire speech. It is classic Obama, living in a time...

Coffee Party Accused Of “Orwellian” Tactics … By Supporter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2010 7 Comments

On August 16 I wrote about how a post at the Coffee Party website, titled "Reversing the Coffee Party's decline," had been removed from the Coffee Party website after I called attention to the post on August 13.The removed post, along with dozens of comments,...

My Shocking Theory On The Delaware Primary

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2010 30 Comments

Prof. Stephen Bainbridge and Dan Riehl have been debating the Delaware Senate Republican primary, and whether it is worth electing "RINO" Mike Castle. Bainbridge says yes, Riehl says no.I don't know enough about Castle or Christine O'Donnell to weigh in on whether Castle is a...

Bumper Sticker Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2010 21 Comments

Spotted by a reader at the Grand Canyon ...

Saturday Night Card Game (NAACP Doubles Down With “TeaPartyTracker.org”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2010 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:As detailed here before, the NAACP has launched a campaign to smear the Tea Party movement as racist. Now the NAACP is doubling down.In order to prove that it...

People Still Have Lots of Questions About Spending in the Kamala Harris Campaign

Boise State U. Shuttered Campus DEI Centers Over Thanksgiving Break

National Spelling Bee Approves Feminist Term 'Womyn' for Kids' Competition

U. Iowa Paid MSNBC Host Joy Reid $55K to Speak on Campus

Biden Admin. Rushing to Auction Off Unused Border Wall Materials Before Trump Takes Office

U. Penn Prof Apologizes After Seemingly Praising Murder of Healthcare CEO

Great News – Gov’t To Lose Money On GM IPO

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2010 13 Comments

The announcement that General Motors would sell shares in an initial public offering was greeted as vindication for the federal government bailout of GM. The IPO would be a way to pay back taxpayers and even to generate a profit for the government.But it is...

Wikio Sept. 2010 Law Blog Rankings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2010 8 Comments

.nobrtable br { display: none }1Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion2SCOTUSblog3TaxProf Blog4Above the Law5The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times6ProfessorBainbridge.com7Concurring Opinions8Truth on the Market9PrawfsBlawg10ACLU Bog of Rights11Sentencing Law and Policy12Of Arms and the Law13The Right Coast14How Appealing15Technology & Marketing Law Blog16Brian Leiter's Law School Reports17Defending PeopleHolding steady.18Law Librarian Blog19Lowering...

AP Calls Obama A Liar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 5 Comments

There is no other reasonable interpretation.Here is how Obama described the end of combat operations in Iraq in his speech Tuesday night:Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need...

It’s al-Quds Day at WaPo (feat. George Bisharat)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 4 Comments

Today is al-Quds Day, the day on which the anti-Israel rejectionist front hopes for the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem. On this day, Mahmood Ahmadinejad gave a speech in celebration of al-Quds Day declaring that "the Zionists are groups of hypocrite racists who have...

Dems Losing The Yutes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 5 Comments

Tipping point approaching. From The NY Times, Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as DemocratsThe college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack...

Most Surprising Fact In Vanity Fair Palin Hit Piece

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 1 Comment

...That Vanity Fair still exists.--------------------------------------------Related PostsCNN Distorts 60 Min./Vanity Fair Poll About Sarah Palin Is Obama's Grandmother Now a Prop?Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

The Massachusetts Model For Dismantling Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 3 Comments

Mike Stopa is running in the Republican primary for Congress in the 3rd District of Massachusetts.Stopa is not your typical candidate. Stopa is a Physicist specializing in computation and nanoscience in the Physics Department at Harvard University, and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network...

Save This Tweet For Use In Political Emergency

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 8 Comments

Please bookmark this post and Tweetfor use in the next political emergency, when some criminal act by a nut is used by Media Matters and its progeny to tar and feather the entire Tea Party and conservative movements: (h/t @JammieWF) Update 1-8-2011 - This tweet takes on special significance...

Democrats Approach The Tipping Point

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 13 Comments

Sam Stein writes at HuffPo today that increasingly libertarian social attitudes in the Republican Party combined with the failure of Democrats to live up to campaign promises, has led Democratic Party insiders to worry that "the Obama administration risks losing the gay rights community (or at least...

What Does The “Israel Lobby” Have To Do With The Discovery Channel Hostage Taking?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 17 Comments

I knew groups like Think Progress would be out there trying to paint the mentally deranged environmental activist who took hostages as a right-winger (because all extreme environmentalists are right -wingers, after all), and it did.But not even Think Progress sunk to the level of PhilipWeiss,...

Something I Will Not Do

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 4 Comments

A gunman has taken hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters. According to reliable reports, the guy is an environmental activist motivated by fears for the planet, and spouting rhetoric about how the planet doesn't need people.Guess what it is I will not do?(Hint - rub...

Rhode Island Uses Emergency Education Funds To Plug Budget Gap

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 1 Comment

The much ballyhooed mini-Stimulus passed in August to help avoid teacher layoffs already was in trouble because many school districts were sitting on the money rather than hiring teachers.Now the Republican Governor of Rhode Island, Donald Carcieri, has gone one step further, using the funds to...