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Squeezing California - Equal Protection Project Fighting Higher Ed DEI Discrimination Statewide

State Dept. Links 'Code Pink' and Other Far-Left Groups to the Chinese Communist Party

Harvard Prof Who Chaired 'Institutional Neutrality Group' Advocates 'Resistance' to Trump

Maryland’s April employment figures are cause for concern

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 19, 2012 16 Comments

Maryland’s loss of 6,000 jobs was the largest of any state in the nation last month. Some have been quick to write off the figures as a product of unusual weather patterns affecting seasonal hiring practices, but there is a growing belief that the Maryland...

Syria’s chickens coming home to roost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 6 Comments

But it's no time for joy. The dithering on Syria has given the same elements who transitted Syria to kill U.S. troops in Iraq a chance to build up their operations in Syria and return the violence on the Syrian government. Suicide blast in Syria hits...

Three from F*** the Police march charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism

Posted by Anne Segal on May 19, 2012 21 Comments

Early Saturday morning, three of the Occupy protesters from the "nonviolent" F*** the Police march were charged with "possession of an incendiary or explosive device, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and providing material support for terrorism." The arrests stemmed from allegations they were planning to create...

We need to be more careful about Elizabeth Warren than she is about being Cherokee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 20 Comments

There is zero evidence that Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee, despite her having touted such heritage at various times, and she stands by that claim in the face of contrary evidence. Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, and to some extent your humble correspondent, have laid Warren's claims...

But if you fire him, who will give you all the free stuff?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 10 Comments

Reader Bill from Florida is traveling, and spotted this pick-up truck which had a handicapped parking license plate, in Nevada City, CA: Whoda thunkit? Handicapped and all in Cali?!?! ...

Scholars Claim Women Need Abortions to Make More Money

Justice Department Investigating Lincoln Memorial U. for Allegedly Discriminating Against Jewish Students

U. Florida Health Announces an End to Gender-Related Care

Mistrial Declared in Case of Stanford Students Charged After Anti-Israel Protests in 2024

Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus

CUNY Law Hosting Lecture Framing Hamas Tunnels as Anti-Colonial Resistance

NBC show to depict EMP-aftermath society

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 51 Comments

"Revolution," a new drama from NBC's fall lineup, depicts what life would look like in the aftermath of an EMP attack. Producer JJ. Abrams (Iron Man) sets the action in Chicago, 15 years after all electricity on the planet is wiped out. In the teaser, the...

Cherokee genealogist on Warren: “These are the people she stepped on”

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

Today, Megyn Kelly of FOX News interviewed Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes about Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee heritage. Legal Insurrection has been breaking news on Warren's false claims, including extensive coverage of the genealogical records. In the interview with Kelly, Barnes says, "there's nothing to indicate she's...

Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair versus Richard Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 11 Comments

It's pretty unfair to compare Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair by lumping them together with no real connection, isn't it? Almost as bad as this headline and column from Dana Milbank lumping Richard Mourdock and federal prisoner Keith Judd together, Richard Mourdock and Keith Judd vs....

Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her fake Cherokee recipes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 35 Comments

The Elizabeth Warren Cherokee saga is like opening up a Russian matryoshka doll, there's always something else inside. Or perhaps more appropriately, like peeling back The Onion. Please say this is not soooooo! From Michael Patrick Leahy: The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today...

Rahm to send dead fish to Ricketts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 21 Comments

Does this suprise anyone? Oh, to not agree with Rahm Emanuel in Chicago: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking...

Elizabeth Warren false Cherokee claim “like taking money out of the collection plate on a Sunday”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

That's part of a comment from reader stevewhitemd to my interview with Marisa DeFranco, who is challenging Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary: If Harvard were better at having a diverse professorship, it would not have to put someone who appears as white as I am out...

Important Election 2012 Announcement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 16 Comments

We interrupt this campaign season for an important announcement: Facts do not matter and should not be sought. That is all. You may now return to 2008....

Change even I could believe in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 2 Comments

From reader Cheerful in Marin: ...

Evidence and “ultimately avoidable” legal irrelevancy released in Trayvon Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 49 Comments

A trove of documents (embedded in viewer at bottom of post) was released tonight in the Trayvon Martin case. The big headline is that the police report prepared a month after the incident said it was "ultimately avoidable" if George Zimmerman never got out of the car. That's...

Mass Dem Senate candidate on Cherokee-gate: Harvard “put someone who appears as white as I am out there as minority”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 26 Comments

As I mentioned the other day, Marisa DeFranco is challenging Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary. In light of Warren's three-week long Cherokee disaster, I reached out to DeFranco to get her take on the controversy and the primary race. While several other high profile candidates dropped out...

Footage of “F*** the Police” march contradicts nonviolent claims

Posted by Anne Segal on May 17, 2012 9 Comments

Today, new footage surfaced from the Occupy/ F*** the Police march Tuesday in Chicago. [Language warning, not safe for work]. The video shows a side of the Occupy / F*** the Police march not shown by the mainstream media. The media continues to ignore the radical...

Do not think of the Jeremiah Wright in the room (Update – It worked, ads won’t run)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 77 Comments

He's back. And the NY Times and other Obama supporters are not happy, so the Times reveals the scoop that a large Republican SuperPAC donor is considering -- yes, considering -- an ad campaign in the fall focusing on Wright: A group of high-profile Republican strategists is...