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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

Another low for academia: Anti-Israel “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” Conference at CUNY

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 34 Comments

You need no better example of how twisted parts of academia have become than to look at an anti-Israeli conference being organized at The City University of New York devoted to the issue of "homonationalism and pinkwashing." I have posted before about the "pinkwashing" charge leveled by anti-Israel...

The lifeboats are in the water at the Good Ship Obamacare Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 108 Comments

The challenge to the Obamacare mandate, long dismissed by the legal establishment and media as frivolous and almost unworthy of serious consideration, is on the cusp of victory at the Supreme Court. Credit a few lone legal voices, including at Volokh Conspiracy, with keeping the intellectual...

#StopRush turns into #MediaMattersStopped

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 63 Comments

Earlier this month Media Matters launched its most ferocious boycott effort ever to force Rush Limbaugh off the air by intimidating advertisers. It always was a charade, as documented here many times. Media Matters coordinated with "independent" groups to make it appear that there was a...

Zero

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 38 Comments

It's easy to find unanimous votes in favor of various bills and resolutions in the House of Representatives, but unanimously against? Let me know if this is truly historic, or just profoundly embarrassing for Obama: President Obama's budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in...

National Brotherhoodie Week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 22 Comments

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

Summering on The Vineyard, wintering at Zuccotti

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2012 47 Comments

So proud! Can't wait to tell all the summer friends on Martha's Vineyard how Amber confronted the fuzz at Zuccotti Park, just like we did at Columbia in '68. Thanks to reader Joe, who writes: Saw this bumper sticker this morning while cycling through Nyack NY, a community made...

Ten years after the Park Hotel Passover Seder bombing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 21 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Precisely 10 years ago Tuesday evening, a 25-year-old man walked up a short flight of stairs and crossed through the lobby of a modest hotel near the beach in Netanya, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. It was the first night of...

Don’t blame the Obamacare mandate messenger, he had no message

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 63 Comments

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., is under intense fire from the left for botching the mandate argument yesterday. Adam Serwer at Mother Jones is being quoted far and wide: Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the...

Obamacare Oral Argument, Day 3 – Severability (Update: Medicaid expansion in trouble?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 75 Comments

This morning was argument on severability, meaning what will happen to the remainder of Obamacare if the mandate is held to be unconstitutional. Via Lyle Denniston of ScotusBlog, that dilemma may have some of the Justices rethinking their position on the mandate: The Supreme Court spent 91...

Sourcing narrative “facts” in the Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 128 Comments

Perhaps readers can help me with this. There are two points which have been universally accepted as true in the media, but I have not been able to find evidence in the police and other records released by the City of Sanford. 1. Skittles and Ice...

Sand Soldiers of America

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 3 Comments

In response to my most recent post regarding the two year anniversary of the death of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto, I was contacted by reader Kate in Texas who suggested I alert other readers to Sand Soldiers of America: I read last night about the post you have...

Gas pump Post-It revolt reignites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 62 Comments

From reader Tim, who writes: Was on pump in Wilmington NC earlier this week. Looks like No new oil from anwr, east coast, the gulf. No pipeline from Canada $4 gal Thanks Obama voters I can't imagine that signs like that aren't popping up all across America. Looks like Tim is right,...

Widener makes Top 12 List with Harvard, Yale, other elites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 20 Comments

That's the Good News. The Bad News - It's a list of The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In 2012 from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Widener joins such elite institutions of higher learning as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis and Tufts. Here's the FIRE write-up of why Widener is...

O Jerusalem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 17 Comments

Psalm 137 Global March on Jerusalem: "In December, Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh announced the march, calling for the establishment of “the ‘Army of Jerusalem’… in order to take action to liberate Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.”" Hamas demolishes homes, beats residents in Rafah. Oh, that Hamas. State Department still won't say...

Really bad day for right-wing eliminationist narratives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 38 Comments

This has been a really bad day for eliminationist narratives of a rising right-wing terror. First, it turns out that George Zimmerman, rather than being a product of Republican / Tea Party / right-wing talk radio, was a registered Democrat. Now, a federal judge has dismissed all...

Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 100 Comments

Via The Crawdad Hole, a very interesting chart of FBI crime statistics for 2009. What it shows is that whites kill whites, and blacks kill blacks. And interestingly, "other" kills "other." It's not the narrative heard much in the media, because it does not play into stereotypes...

Obamacare Oral Argument, Day 2 – The Mandate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 57 Comments

Tom Goldstein at ScotusBlog has an interim report: Based on the questions posed to Paul Clement, the lead attorney for the state challengers to the individual mandate, it appears that the mandate is in trouble. It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but...