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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Texas Roadrunners and oil industry eagerly await feds Dunes Sagebrush Lizard decision

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 29 Comments

This is an update to my prior post about the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, which may shut down a lot of the oil exploration and production in West Texas if the lizard receives endagered species status. Via reader, photographer (also here), and music impresario Danelle, the decision may come as soon as...

Were charges of “scientific misconduct” against Elizabeth Warren ever fully vetted?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 27 Comments

On June 4, I wrote that The vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s academic background begins. That post featured a scathing law review article by a well-regarded Rutgers law professor in 1990-1991 who accused Elizabeth Warren and her co-authors of a book on bankruptcy of a wide range of academic offenses. ...

Allen West on new District: “No one ambushes me”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 23 Comments

You will remember the outrage which swept the airwaves when redistricting by the Republican legislature redistricted Allen West out of existence. There was a heated dispute whether West was targeted or just the victim of circumstance dictated by law. West ended up switching districts. West discussed it...

Left and right agree: We don’t need no concern-trolling NYT op-eds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 22 Comments

Steve Almond writes in The NY Times, Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One: This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal. We choose to see ourselves as innocent victims of an escalating right-wing fanaticism. But too often we serve as...

Native American Harvard alumna and lifelong Dem accuses Elizabeth Warren of “ethnic fraud”

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

There have been protests by Cherokees and other Native American groups over Elizabeth Warren's continued insistence that she is Native American despite the complete lack of evidence to sustantiate that claim and substantial evidence that the claim is not true. Now a Harvard graduate, Margo (Kickingbird)...

Yale to Offer Free Tuition to Families Making Less Than $200K

U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Students Want School to Spend $25K on Reparations Commission

Anti-Israel Group at Columbia Reacts to Iran Strike by Tweeting 'Death to America' in Persian

Florida Democrat Says Charlie Kirk 'Was Not Assassinated'

Wesleyan U. President Writes Blog Post Praising Anti-ICE Efforts During 'War on Minnesota'

Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical and Law School Enrollment

The “best” “worst” Obama-adoring video (Reader Poll)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 48 Comments

Consider this the opening of a time capsule from a gentler, kinder, more delusional era, when love of composite Obama swept the land. In my post Sunday, It made you happy, but it was that bad, I asked readers for suggestions for the best worst Obama-adoring...

I know exile, exile is a friend of mine, and you, Sir, are not in exile

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 14 Comments

Exile? If you think being conservative in Lee County, Florida, is being in "exile," there's this bridge in Ithaca I'd like to sell you. From reader John: In Westchester County, NY. I saw the sticker out of the corner of my eye and expected to see a license...

Warren v. Brown is the new Wisconsin Recall

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 61 Comments

If you love Daily Kos, Van Jones and Keith Ellison, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. If you love public employee unions running the state, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. If you loved the Wisconsin Recall, you'll love Elizabeth Warren. The big union and Hollywood money and progressive media machine are...

Mother Jones chickenhawks James O’Keefe at Netroots Nation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 20 Comments

James O'Keefe is loathed on the left almost on a par with what Andrew Breitbart experienced. From ACORN to NPR to voter fraud in 2012, O'Keefe and his camera have caused havoc. Yet when blogger Adam Weinstein of Mother Jones approached O'Keefe this year at Netroots Nation, they had...

It made you happy, but it was that bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 81 Comments

What the hell were we thinking? By "we" I don't mean me or most of the readers here. By "we" I mean the nation, which fell in love with composite Obama. So now she's not feeling the love no more. (Daily Caller via Instapundit.) Amber Lee Ettinger, widely known...

Argument at Netroots 2012 over Obama abandoning Walker Recall

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 21 Comments

It only took one panel discussion at Netroots to reveal just how divided the left is in its narrative over how to handle Wisconsin. Audience member Lisa Graves from The Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch, upset with the panel's analysis of Obama's interaction with the Wisconsin...

Counting the cars on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2012 11 Comments

They've all gone to look for America. Another one from Sandy's road trip, taken on the Pennsylvania Turnpike west of Pittsburgh by a: guy who appeared to be a miserable creature, whose mom would even have a hard time trying to love, and we know a mother's...

Flame commits (partial) suicide

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 25 Comments

An update on Flame, from BBC: The creators of the Flame malware have sent a "suicide" command that removes it from some infected computers. Security firm Symantec caught the command using booby-trapped computers set up to watch Flame's actions. More technical details at Symantec: Late last week, some Flamer...

Saturday Night Card Game (“Failure” is not a race)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 38 Comments

Mike Lupica is a sports writer who now is a political columnist. Lupica suffers from Keith Olbermann Disease. Lupica hasn't been mentioned much here, but we did call him out when he claimed that a Stop Obama sign was a call to violence based on race: We are 100 yards, no...

Banished

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 93 Comments

Ace: Comments Are Disabled Until Further Notice I apologize to most commenters...

They make it up on volume

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 16 Comments

The reaction of the left to the Wisconsin loss reminds me of the old joke about the businessman who loses money on every sale, but makes it up on volume. Via Newsbusters (h/t Tim Blair): ...

Breitbart Awards and rethinking my blog con phobia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 24 Comments

I attended the Breitbart Awards dinner in Providence last night. It was part of the Future of Journalism Summit sponsored by The Heritage Foundation and The Franklin Center. Jim Hoft has the details on the winners. There were about 100 people in attendance. Via Jim's blog, here's Anne...