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Feds should bring "a good, strong case against a mayor or a governor interfering with ICE operations"

Kamala Harris Rebrands Headquarters as a 'Gen-Z Progressive Content Hub'

Tongva Tribe Reminds Billie Eilish That Her Mansion Sits on Its Land

Hey West Virginia, you’ll get yours my pretty, and your little federal inmate too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 31 Comments

Oh man, has there ever been a bigger LMAO than this? Obama Loses West Virginia Delegates To Prison Inmate An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president...

Stolen Cherokee Valor

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 29 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's narrative of being a descendant of the Cherokee people emboldened Warren not only to consider herself Native American, but also to identify with the most victimized of the victimized. One doesn't have to be a scholar of Native American history to know of the Trail of Tears. ...

Mashugana

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 15 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Richard Mourdock wins Indiana primary

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 46 Comments

It was a blow out, more than anyone expected. At latest count it looks like a 20 point win. Mourdocks victory speech was great. I'll post it when it is available. (Now available at Right Scoop but no embed) For now, you'll have to do with a photo: Elsewhere: Looks like Tom...

Indiana primary results // Update: NBC calls race for Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 49 Comments

Opening new post for post-results -- problems with embedded tweet codes here. % Reporting - 95 Mourdock - 60 Lugar - 40 Sen. John Kerry: Sen. Lugar's defeat is a "tragedy for the Senate" #INSEN— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) May 9, 2012 Obama: As a friend and former colleague, I want to...

Pro-Palestinian Activism on College Campuses is Based on a Muslim Brotherhood Blueprint

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Scale Back Gifted Programs in NYC Schools

Diversity Hiring Has Backfired on Higher Education

San Francisco Schools Anticipate Closure Due to Possible Teachers Strike

Under the Big Beautiful Bill, Colleges With Low-Earning Grads Could Lose Access to Student Loans

Professor Likely to Become Harvard's New History Chair Has History of Hating Trump, Israel

Losing our liberty one day at a time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 6 Comments

From Peter Suderman at Reason, Obama Administration Security Official: We Don't Need to Subpoena Reporters Anymore Because We Already Know Who They're Talking To: Wasserman's blistering indictment of the Obama administration's hyper-aggressive pursuit of government whistleblowers, first delivered at April's Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism, is...

Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 102 Comments

Throughout her career and political campaign, Elizabeth Warren has found victims everywhere she looked, including when she looked in the mirror and saw an alleged descendant of one of the most historically victimized groups, Native Americans. In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it...

Chronicle of Higher Ed gives in to social media mob

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 43 Comments

I have warned you about the total war, in which petitions and boycotts and other pressure tactics are used to silence conservative voices. There is no better example than a case reported in the NY Post via National Review (h/t Jonah Goldberg) about a blogger at The...

Is there an endorsement in there someplace?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 20 Comments

Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney via an overnight e-mail sent to supporters. Here's the link to the e-mail (h/t Politico). Is there an endorsement in there someplace? Yeah, I guess there is, but it's buried in paragraph 13 and half-hearted: Above all else, we both agree that President...

Dear Indiana: It’s time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 10 Comments

"It's time" has been Richard Mourdock's campaign theme. "It's time" captured beautifully why it's time to retire Dick Lugar: Too long in office, too long in Washington, D.C., too long considering himself to be the office he holds, too willing to go along to get along,...

Hopelessly helping

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 2 Comments

to unwrite a historical wrong through patriotic dissent. From Jeff in Green Bay, a photo of the bumper sticker on his car: ...

Tuesday: one of the busiest election days of 2012

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 10 Comments

Ballotpedia, the "interactive almanac of state politics," has an excellent run-down of Tuesday's elections across the country. While we've already reported to you on what's at stake in Wisconsin and Mourdock's challenge to Lugar, there are other key elections in Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia to...

French foreign policy under Hollande a toss-up

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 07, 2012 23 Comments

Following Francois Hollande’s handling of Nicolas Sarkozy in last week’s Presidential election, a number of pressing uncertainties are making their way into the minds of people around the world. The issue attracting the most global media attention is the significance of France electing it’s first...

Republicans need to vote for Walker tomorrow to avoid nasty surprise

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 12 Comments

While the Democrats battle extremes within their party in tomorrow's recall primary in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker faces his own challenge in the Republican primary. Arthur Kohl-Riggs, a 23-year-old self-described "progressive Republican" who dresses like Abraham Lincoln and frequently appears at rallies around the state, is...

Brought back bad memories

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2012 12 Comments

As you know, since some of you sought a coup d'insurrection, I was traveling all weekend and this morning without access to a computer. Fortunately, Anne guarded the wall all weekend (thanks!) and the State of the Insurrection is sound. Being computerless, but not internetless, brought...

Dick Lugar jumps the social security scare tactic shark

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2012 17 Comments

Dick Lugar has jumped the shark with this ad he just released, via The Weekly Standard: With this ad, Dick Lugar deserves to be remembered as a dishonorable politician who would stoop to anything to get reelected. I hope Indiana voters tell him not to let the door hit...

Wisconsin Primary Tuesday to decide Scott Walker opponent

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 9 Comments

This Tuesday, democrats in Wisconsin will cast their votes to determine who will be the democratic challenger to Republican Governor Scott Walker in the upcoming June recall election. The democratic candidates, Kathleen Falk and Tom Barrett, display two ends of the Democratic party. Falk, the far-left...