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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders "Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish"

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

It’s more than just an assault on our religious freedoms

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 05, 2012 35 Comments

Government entanglement in our lives is increasing exponentially. Nowhere is this more evident than the recent assault on religious freedoms from varying governmental entities. As Rick Santorum would put it, “It is a top down approach” and it truly is. From the top, we have the...

When did you decide to become politically active?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2012 102 Comments

I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Fontier Lab. The Frontier Lab, among other things, utilizes "deep values research" common in consumer products marketing analysis (Anne is a Cornell Business School graduate who concentrated in...

Nevada Caucuses Results – The fantastic not actually so great night for Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2012 125 Comments

What is going on in Nevada? As of this morning, I cannot find any source reporting more than 71% of the results? Did they count the votes and decide to go home for the night before releasing them? Apparently Clark County (Las Vegas) is the...

We’ve got some of those

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

in Ithaca, too. Thanks to reader Bob, who writes: This was taken in Ann Arbor Michigan on the way to a football game. I had my grand daughter take it since I was driving (safety first). Love your blog, it’s a daily read. ...

Romney tries to cut off Newt’s SuperPAC funding

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 119 Comments

I'll post the Nevada results later. Romney won big there in 2008 (51.1%) because of the heavy Mormon turnout at the caucuses and is expected to do so again. The big story was the revelation in The NY Times that the Romney campaign, both directly and...

Georgetown Prof Says He Works With 'Stupid White People' in Undercover Video

Harvard Grad Students Create ‘Power Rainbow’ to Teach 3rd Graders About Systemic Oppression

Court Sides With Washington Prof Punished for Mocking University Land Acknowledgment

Membership at Turning Point USA Continues to Grow on College Campuses

Trump Suspends Green Card Program That Allowed Brown U. Shooting Suspect Into U.S.

Yale has Shockingly Low Number of Republican Professors

Saturday Night Card Game (If calling Juan Juan is a racial code word, what is calling Wolf Wolf?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 25 Comments

We have been here before. The accusation that harsh criticism of Barack Obama or his policies constitutes the use of "racially tinged" code words. Invariably, the code word problem is defined in such a way that the accusation is self-fulfilling; the lack of an actual racial...

Santorum’s Big Government Problem

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 04, 2012 43 Comments

Rick Santorum recently released an attack ad on Newt Gingrich criticizing him as a big government conservative touting the line, “Rick Santorum for President. He doesn’t just talk a good conservative game, he lives it.” Why is Santorum drawing attention to his fellow candidates' records of...

No prosecution of Lance Armstrong

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 26 Comments

I have followed cycling for many years, and at one point was a pretty good cyclist myself. The family went to Paris in 2005 to watch Lance Armstrong's last victory ride down the Champs-Élysées (as it turned out it was not his last ride, as he...

“Your life or your limb” Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 44 Comments

Conservative blogger John Hawkins (Right Wing News and elsewhere) poses the age-old conservative question: Choose to have your head cut off with a chainsaw (voting for Obama) or just a limb removed (voting for Mitt). John chooses life and limb (he's a Newt supporter). ...

The Legal Insurrection Daily

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 6 Comments

I've just added a feature I think you will enjoy, The Legal Insurrection Daily. As you know, I use Twitter a great deal for the most up to date news, to interact with other bloggers, and to promote LI. I have over 4100 followers on Twitter,...

Another Pallywood hoax exposed, again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 6 Comments

The Pallywood cottage industry of fake or misleading photos meant to demonize Israel never ceases. Last June I addressed this photo then circulating on Facebook purporting to show an Israeli soldier stepping on a Palestinian girl: Via information provided by Israel Matzav, I pointed out that the soldier...

Those kulaks sure are rooting for failure

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 15 Comments

Or they simply may be economically rational people. Either way, it's revolting. From reader Jeff, taken in Bradenton, Florida: ...

We better find the vision thing, fast

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 74 Comments

We are at the mercy of misleading statistics which nonetheless form the media narrative. I posted earlier today about workers leaving the workforce in droves, which drives down the nominal unemployment rate and renders it a misleading statistic. Yet the details are the details, and the...

Work in progress

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

It happens on Fridays for me. Someday the truth will out, Newt Did Not Resign in Disgrace. Someday the truth will out, Sen Graham: We Were Too Hard on Newt in 1997. Someday the truth will out, Mark Levin goes nuclear over Romney’s inability to explain conservatism. (h/t...

The Facebook IPO and economic literacy.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 03, 2012 16 Comments

The big news this week was Facebook's initial IPO filing. The paperwork itself makes a good read, apparently "Facebook users upload 250 million photos a day, signal that they “like” items posted by friends about 2.7 billion times a day, and have created a web...

Drop out nation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 33 Comments

More news about the drop in the labor participation rate, via Zero Hedge (emphasis in original): A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor...

Romney continues to push myth that he didn’t attack in S.C.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 55 Comments

Mitt Romney has outspent Newt Gingrich on negative advertising in every state, starting in Iowa, and was the first to go negative every time. Yet Romney, with absolute conviction, continues to say that the reason he lost South Carolina was that he was outspent by Newt,...