Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Pull funding "for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line"

Major Kamala Fundraiser: Leaving 'Democratic Party is Like Leaving a Cult'

Poison Ivies: DEI and the Downfall of the Ivy League

It’s Official – Obama Did Not End The Recession

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2010 8 Comments

The National Bureau of Economic Research has declared that the recession ended, statistically speaking, in June 2009. As reported by the L.A. Times:Reporting from Washington — The panel of economists that dates the nation's economic cycles declared Monday that the recession that started in December...

Debunking The Islamophobia Card

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2010 3 Comments

Fouad Ajami reports on an opinion survey taken by a leading Arab electronic daily newspaper, regarding the Cordoba mosque and Islamic center to be located at or near (depending on your perspective) Ground Zero.Keep in mind that domestic public opinion against the location is widely denigrated...

Mark Your Calendars

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2010 3 Comments

On Election Day in November we will have another all-day Live Blog event. The event will be turned on in the morning, and stay open all day and night until we get returns from Nevada and the West Coast.Those who participated in the Scott Brown...

Calling All Bumper Sticker Detectives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2010 14 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca this morning. Quite bold to put such a "Miss me yet?" sticker on your car in these parts of the country, and then to park it on a main road.Can anyone figure out over what bumper sticker the "Miss me yet?" bumper sticker was...

Memo to the Right: “The Lombardi Rule” Is In Effect

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2010 66 Comments

We have heard so much about the supposed Buckley Rule, which Charles Krauthammer and other Mike Castle supporters over-simplistically synthesized as follows:"Support the most conservative candidate who is electable."The Buckley Rule is for primaries. The Delaware primary is over. To paraphrase Krauthammer, Castle supporters didn't go...

Conservatives Must Win the Battle Over America's History

Charges Dropped Against Anti-Israel Protesters at UNC-Chapel Hill

Faithful Catholic Colleges Experiencing Surge in Enrollment

George Mason University Professors Demand End to Pro-Hamas Activity on Campus

Vanderbilt Graduate Workers Union Drops Efforts to Organize Following Legal Setbacks

As Syria Falls and Iran Fades, Turkey Seeks Regional Takeover

Stop Me Before I Say Something I Regret

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2010 19 Comments

I know that you realize it, but this is a two-front political war.I have read some profoundly stupid commentary on the right about Christine O'Donnell, pronouncing O'Donnell's campaign dead because of a sophomoric series of appearances in the 1990s on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.It appears...

Saturday Night Card Game (In Search of People of Color)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2010 3 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:We all know how nothing brings out the race card from the overwhelmingly white media like a crowd of overwhelmingly white Tea Partiers. This video from Black & Right (via...

Proof

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 14 Comments

We were right.Charlie Crist, Mike Castle, now Lisa Murkowski.We have proven our point.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

The Buckley Rule Is Not A Rule

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 24 Comments

Prior to last week, when is the last time anyone heard of the "Buckley Rule," a supposed prescription by William F. Buckley, Jr.? Now it is all the rage for pundits whose man in Delaware lost.The Buckley Rule now rolls off the tongues, keyboards and pens of the punditry...

Kirsten Powers Sticks Fork In Eye Of The Mocking Class

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 4 Comments

Kirsten Powers, almost alone among liberals, has been willing to denounce the sexualized attacks upon Christine O'Donnell, and now she does it again in a column at The Daily Beast titled Tea Party Mocking Needs To Stop:The Washington establishment has its nose out of joint...

It’s Sad When TPM Is More Honest About Christine O’Donnell Than FrumForum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 10 Comments

TPM is on a mission to paint Christine O'Donnell as crazy. That's what TPM does, just as they have been doing to Sharron Angle for months.TPM is what it is, but at least it is more honest than whomever does the posting at FrumForum.TPM's latest...

New Report: Mao Killed 45 Million (But He’s Still Cool)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2010 9 Comments

Mao Zedong caused the death of 45 million people according to a scholar who was given unprecedented access to Chinese Communist Party archives. As reported by The Independent in Britain:Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history,...

Is It Too Much To Ask That People Read The Wikipedia Entry To Which They Link?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 10 Comments

I expect it from TPM, which is peddling an overblown tape of Christine O'Donnell questioning -- in 1996 -- whether there had been a fair investigation of Vince Foster's 1993 death. TPM tries to make a big deal out of this, but as even Matthew...

Poll – How Much Damage Has Karl Rove Done To Himself?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 5 Comments

Note: Code is messed up, hit left button to Vote, right button to View Results...

What They Couldn’t Do We Did

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 6 Comments

When Chris Matthews is good, he's very good; when he's bad, he's tingly. In this clip, Matthews makes some good points:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Write Down This Chris Coons Quote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 8 Comments

From his website:While the Republicans are seeing how low they can go, attacking each other over student loan debt and personal finance issues, we'll continue talking about something more relevant: jobs for Delawareans.So I guess this means the Coons campaign will not sink to the...

What Worries Me Most About Karl Rove