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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

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...

Diversity Conference for Elite Private Schools Devolves Into Festival of Jew Hatred

New Course at U. Colorado Boulder to Explore Feminism Through Disney Female Characters

Several Top Schools Urging International Students to Return From Break Before Trump Takes Office

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

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...

The Tale of the Tape

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 0 Comments

'nuff said.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

“And He Wants To Call Me An Extremist?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 5 Comments

Yes! Finally an ad from Sharron Angle hoisting Harry Reid's "extremist" campaign by its own petard.The Vaporizer must be "extremely" upset.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMmxaUh5BA?fs=1](h/t @MattKLewis)Update: Nevada Journalists Defend Angle Against Unfair Attack--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Harry Reid Campaign Stuck On CrazyWhy Is Harry Reid's Campaign Spokesman Following Me? Follow me on Twitter,...

Media Matters Needs To Run More Ads Like This

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 10 Comments

Media Matters wants to prove that is can take on Fox News. Media Matters wants to run an advertisement on Fox News criticizing the parent of Fox News for donating $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. Politico has the background.Here is the ad, after some...

Obama’s Iraq Speech In One Sentence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 10 Comments

...Who's this guy saying nice things about Bush on our Iraq success bashing Bush over our economic failure?--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Obama's McChrystal Dilemma In One SentenceObama's Gulf Speech In One SentenceJewish History In One Sentence Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

The Left Brought The Wave Down On Itself

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 5 Comments

Trust me, I'm not counting my chickens before they have come home to roost. But it is enjoyable to read the distraught comments from those trying to run away from the wave.The "wave" is the most recent Gallup poll showing a 10 point generic ballot...

Sharron Angle Was Right To Insist On Katrina Relief Accountability

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2010 2 Comments

Nevada journalist and talk show host John Ralston is trolling for Harry Reid. Ralston published an article in The Las Vegas Sun on Sunday titled Angle in 2005: I would have voted “no” on Katrina relief funds.The article is based on a tape given to Ralston...

CNN Distorts 60 Min./Vanity Fair Poll About Sarah Palin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2010 11 Comments

The headline of the day at CNN is TRENDING: Clear majority says Palin not qualified to be president (emphasis mine):Two days after Sarah Palin fired up a large crowd at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, a newly released survey suggests a clear majority of...

Why Haven’t They Turned In The Tennessee Arsonist Yet?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2010 7 Comments

Some vehicles were torched at the building site for a Mosque in Tennessee.From Glenn Greenwald on down, the incident has been declared to be another act of anti-Muslim bigotry inspired by the Corboda mosque controversy, similar to the (now-debunked) Cabbie Stabbing.They may be right. Or...

Obama Hammers The Bitter Clingers, Again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2010 10 Comments

Obama was interviewed by Brian Williams yesterday. Once again, Obama exhibited the sort of disdain towards a substantial portion of the population as he did in his bitter clinger comments back in 2008.You will remember that at a private cocktail party in April 2008 in...