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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

They Lied Us Into The War On Happy Birthday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 8 Comments

You can't make this stuff up.I posted earlier about a school which banned the singing of Happy Birthday out of fear of, well, it's a little hard to articulate the irrational.But that's not the real story, according to Peter Daou, who uses the following diagram...

Insert “Jumps The Shark” Wording Here

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 9 Comments

One elementary school instituted a Taliban-like ban on singing "Happy Birthday" for fear of upsetting students who were not participating in the celebration (or something like that):A ban on singing “Happy Birthday” lasted all of four days at Chesterfield Elementary School in Missouri after angry parents bombarded...

Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 18 Comments

Bill Sparkman. Amy Bishop. The Fort Hood Shooter. The IRS Plane Crasher. The Pentagon Shooter.People who had nothing to do with each other in the real world. In the blogosphere, each of these people was linked by a macabre desire by the left-wing blogosphere to find a crime...

Jules Crittenden Exits Right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 0 Comments

Jules Crittenden (his real name, really) has signed off his blog.We will miss him, even though he is related somehow to David Frum.He started his blog in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and figured his mission would be accomplished in short order, and...

Juan Cole: “Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 6 Comments

Those of you following the "Muslim Cabbie-Stabber" incident -- in which a very drunk guy affiliated with a pro-Corboba mosque organization stabbed a cabblie who was Muslim -- will know that the left-wing blogosphere is on another one of its wrong-way rampages of righteous indignation...

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

“I Didn’t Buy A Clunker, But I’m Paying Anyway”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 6 Comments

Cash for Clunkers was an abysmal failure which distorted the used car market, driving up prices and harming, most of all, poor people.But of course, you already knew that if you read this blog. And so writes Jason Kuznicki:And the payback isn’t long in coming...

America “May Have” Won 3.3 Million Jobs!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 7 Comments

The credibility of the Congressional Budget Office suffered a grievous blow during the health care debate when the CBO was forced by Harry Reid to "score" Obamacare using preposterous and plainly contrived assumptions in order to keep the cost estimates below a trillion dollars.Now, the...

Yes We Didn’t: “Nothing To Show For It”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 3 Comments

Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), appointed in January 2009 to replace Ken Salazar, via the Greeley Gazette (h/t NRO):Michael Bennet, D-Colo, at a town hall meeting in Greeley last Saturday, Aug 21 said we had nothing to show for the debt incurred by the stimulus package and other expenditures...

Mosque Attacked and Burned

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 3 Comments

Not in New York City. In Beirut, by other Muslims, following shooting between Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni militias:Shortly afterward, Shi’ite supporters of Hizbullah and sister organization Amal set fire to a Sunni mosque in the nearby neighborhood of Basta, according to an AP photographer.Salah, a...

Lamest Comment To Lamest Post

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2010 5 Comments

Lamest comment to Lamest Online Insult Ever:"That Reynolds, Althouse and William Jacobson are employed as faculty at US law schools tells you all you need to know about how debased the law is in this kkkountry."There was a time when they actually were funny over...

Tolerance Should Be A Two-Way Street

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 14 Comments

Except that throughout much of the world, it is not. Read Christopher Hitchens's post, A Test of Tolerance:Let us by all means make the "Ground Zero" debate a test of tolerance. But this will be a one-way street unless it is to be a test of...

Yeah, But It’s Only Kilometers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 3 Comments

China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km:Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Schlock Poll: Jersey Shore Does More Harm Than Good

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 6 Comments

I can't believe they actually polled this:It appears a majority of New Jersey residents agree with Gov. Chris Christie: The hit MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" is doing more harm than good to the Garden State.According to the new poll from Quinnipiac University, 54 percent...

Cell Phone Psychological Warfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 0 Comments

From the Lebanese website Naharnet:"Israel once again penetrated Lebanon's mobile phone networks on Tuesday, sending text messages to citizens announcing a tangible reward for information about the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, NBN television reported." It is hard to believe that the Israelis actually...

Lamest Online Insult Ever?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 2 Comments

TBogg to Tucker Carlson:"Go get a real job."You mean, like yours?--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Obama’s Freaky Fridays

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 3 Comments

On Friday, Barack Obama dropped a political bombshell with wide ranging implications for the U.S. war on terror and relations with the Muslim world. Obama then disappeared from the domestic political scene, as a fury of recriminations reverberated throughout the political sphere and blogosphere. Obama...

Strike 2 (Blumenthal v. McMahon)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 2 Comments

Strike 1 was the now infamous "when I served in Vietnam" (but I actually didn't) statement by Richard Blumenthal.Strike 2 (via HotAir) is Blumenthal's "I don't take PAC money" (but I actually do) statement by Blumenthal:Richard Blumenthal's words are haunting him again. Already forced to...