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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

David Gregory loves him that contraception issue

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 48 Comments

Good for Newt for pushing back against David Gregory. This segment epitomizes almost everything about how the MSM tries to frame the narrative against conservatives and particularly against religious Christians. It actually got worse. After Newt, Gregory did the same thing to Eric Cantor, and then demanded...

Make an example of Carbonite (Update: ProFlowers joins Rush boycott)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 251 Comments

Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn't think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities. Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring down Fox News and investigate its executives, and Fox News advertisers have been...

“Why not give Andy a country worth dying for”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 46 Comments

In addition to the line quoted in the title, listen to what Breitbart told him the core of the problem was: The media. Nothing proves how right Breitbart was as the last few days of complete and utter absurdity regarding Sandra Fluke. Her testimony should have...

Marine Two

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 3 Comments

A different side of Marine One, from reader Scott, who took this photo in Hendersonville, NC, and who also mentioned in his e-mail: An aside, this Breitbart tragedy has kicked me in the pants a bit. I am registering for the bar exam after a multi-year...

Carbonite drops Rush

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 101 Comments

Carbonite, a company I never heard of except through its advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show, has dropped Rush nothwithstanding Rush's apology. Here is the statement released earlier tonight: A Statement from David Friend, CEO of Carbonite as of 6:45pm ET, March 3: “No one with daughters the age...

Foreign Policy Analyst Suggests Shutting Down College Middle Eastern Studies Departments

DEI Policies Have Caused Real Harm to Young White Men

U. Oklahoma Fires Instructor Who Failed Student for Citing Bible in Essay on Gender

Elementary School Principal Fired Over Antisemitic Remarks in Voicemail He Thought Had Stopped Recording

Christmas Classic: Hillsdale College Choir Performs ‘O Holy Night’

Metropolitan State U. of Denver Rejects Standard American English in the Name of ‘Anti-Racism’

Daylight, more like Approaching Midnight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 23 Comments

This film by a pro-Israeli group has Obama supporters going nutty. Thanks to Israel Matzav for the link: ...

Obligatory: Rush apologizes for use of those words

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 64 Comments

Rush Limbaugh posted this statement (h/t HotAir): For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal...

Saturday Night Card Game (Repeat after me: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 23 Comments

With Andrew Breitbart's death this week, one of the most persistent falsehoods has resurfaced, the claim that the original tape released of Shirley Sherrod's speech to an NAACP Chapter was misleading or defamatory in that it did not reveal that Sherrod's discrimination against a white farmer was...

This is your gov’ment on sex

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 38 Comments

It's all coming together this week, the absurdity of the entitlement state where everything must be subsidized: It works for me, GM laying off 1300 due to low Volt sales: ...

Food fight in the culture war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 42 Comments

Tolerance. The concept could be a bumper sticker. But if so, it would not be welcome on the campus of Northeastern University, which just banned Chick-fil-A from campus. From The Boston Glove via TaxProf (h/t Instapundit): Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant will not be...

Something missing from Georgetown Law’s condemnation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 61 Comments

Two hundred fifty Georgetown University Law Center (the name of the law school) faculty, staff and students signed the following statement: The undersigned faculty members, administrators and students of Georgetown University Law Center and other law schools strongly condemn the recent personal attacks on our student, Sandra...

Marine One

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 5 Comments

From previous photographer Zach: Wanted to send along another submission from the mountains of NC. I took these in the parking lot of the American Legion post in Hendersonville, NC. Thought the one was particularly relevant considering the Ted Kennedy reference and the prevalent excuse for...

The world has gone mad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 46 Comments

U.S. soldiers who accidentally burned Korans to be charged, "“For the soldiers, it will be serious — they could lose rank." Feels like a good night for a White House document dump. Yup, something in the air. Ted Kennedy too conservative for today's Dem party? Not sure,...

How long until Obama says Georgetown is acting “stupidly”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 89 Comments

JWF has some background on the Georgetown Law student who is challenging Georgetown's contraception policy. She went to the law school knowing the university's policy, and per JWF, intending to challenge it. Unfortunately, Rush walked into this one without seeing the set up, and now the...

So Close to Right

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 02, 2012 29 Comments

An eighth grader in upstate New York has ruffled some feathers with an essay that casts the public school system as modern slavery. I wish I hadn't clicked on the hyperlink, because - at face value - she seemed so right. Public schools discriminate based on...

If we’re so sure to lose playing it safe, why not shoot for the moon?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 93 Comments

George Will and Erick Erickson predict near certain loss in the presidential election. George Will: “[T]here would come a point when… conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more attainable than… electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal of retaining control of the House...

David Frum’s ghoulish attack on Breitbart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2012 22 Comments

Upon hearing of the death of Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart's Twitter nemesis Eric Boehlert of Media Matters sent a respectful and classy tweet: Even Media Matters itself, with whom Breitbart sparred almost daily, issued a respectful statement: Media Matters has a long history with Andrew Breitbart. We've disagreed more...