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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

CNN proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” why cases should not be tried in the media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 59 Comments

If it were not for the fact that a young man is dead, the factual accounts and investigations in the media of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman would be laughable. There is no better proof that cases should not be tried in the...

No water was harmed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2012 13 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca, this is a variation on the ubiquitous anti-fracking bumper stickers. Gas or water? This driver obviously chose gas, because the car was filthy. ...

Places I remember

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 38 Comments

For blogs, my "Blogs I Read" list in the sidebar and many of the Blogs to Note are my go to places. But, I'm constantly on the prowl for better places to get "news" - whatever that means. As you know, I dropped Politico as a regular...

“our liberty depends on the freedom of the press …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 34 Comments

and that cannot be limited without being lost." On the other hand: And so it was written, and so it is done (at 5:45): "In New York City, which you're visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you...

Here we go: Lugar up only single digits over Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 12 Comments

This is very big news (h/t Pwire), as it punctures the Richard Lugar air of inevitability: U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar is in the most precarious position of his political career since autumn 1974 when he unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh. A Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll released...

U. Wyoming Students Protest Proposed $40 Million State Budget Cut

Harvard Students Receiving Fewer As After Grade Inflation is Exposed

Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School

Lawyers for Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Don't Want Video Introduced as Evidence

UNC Professors Sign Anti-Israel BDS Pledge

Young Democratic Socialists of America at U. Oregon Demand Abortion Drugs on Campus

DOJ files letter with 5th Circuit affirming judicial authority

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 53 Comments

The DOJ just filed its letter to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the authority of federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of congressional laws. The letter was signed by Eric Holder, and says in pertinent part: The longstanding, historical position ofthe United States...

Zimmerman racial slur narrative falling apart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 40 Comments

As with so much else in this case, the original media report of George Zimmerman using the pejorative "coons," which has been accepted as true and then repeated endlessly by the left blogosphere and mainstream media, now is in doubt. An enhanced analysis now appears to...

Some election integrity in Wisconsin is more equal (Update: Nickolaus steps aside)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 12 Comments

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an editorial today calling on Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus to resign prior to the June 5 recall elections because of her late reporting of votes in the Prosser-Kloppenberg contest last year and in the recent Republican primary. In neither...

Christie on the Golan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 13 Comments

Chris Christie is visiting Israel, and got a chance to look out at Syria from the Golan Heights. Tweet of the Day from @jennaportnoy: ...

Conservatives better wake up to anti-conservative boycott movements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments

You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called "independent" groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh from...

New neighborhood watchman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 22 Comments

Um, there's so much I could say, so many comparisons I could make. But I'm not going to go there. Because he knows who has been naughty, and I don't want to get fishy flagged or end up on an #attackwatch list like Fuzzy. From a reader who...

If Romney loses to Obama, it will be because of his supporters not his opponents

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 88 Comments

You knew this was coming, the attempt to blame a Romney loss to Obama on comments made about Romney by other candidates. Jamie Weinstein at The Daily Caller (via HotAir) writes that Newt's legacy will be that his criticisms of Romney will be featured in Obama...

“I find your comments … borderline offensive”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 32 Comments

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was interviewed by Doug McIntyre of California radio station 790 KABC regarding Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was named Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. McIntyre ripped into Villaraigosa's record, to which Wasserman-Schultz responded: "I really find your comments disappointing and borderline offensive." Borderline offensive? Offensive...

Anti-Romney conservatives are “like birthers”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 52 Comments

I knew I shouldn't have looked back. I have not read Jennifer Rubin in weeks. She has become so odious in her Romneyquest that reading her posts is like sipping poison; it doesn't kill you but it makes you nauseated. Every time I read one of her insulting...

If you are going to keep your laws off their bodies …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 82 Comments

on what basis would sex-selective abortion be regulated? I previously highlighted the problem, When A Woman’s Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women – In The U.S. Via James Pethokoukis comes this article about the spread of sex-selective abortion in the U.S., Unwelcome import: Sex selective abortion: I’d read...

Onto something, or just making mischief?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 37 Comments

Via Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters: ...

Audio expert in Martin case demanded at least six similar voice exemplars in prior case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2012 30 Comments

The big headline for the past several days has been that an audio expert hired by The Orlando Sentinel, Thomas J. Owen, had concluded that the person screaming for help on the 911 tape when a neighbor called in was not George Zimmerman because voice biometric analysis of the...