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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Minimum wage gone viral

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 27, 2012 18 Comments

A map of US wages that suggests most Americans live in some sort of indentured servitude has gone viral. Thankfully, the claim is easily debunked: If that sounds bogus, it’s because it is. Here’s why: Very few people who earn the minimum wage are living on that wage alone;...

Does not fit the (Obama campaign’s #WarOnWomen) narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 12 Comments

Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit): One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every dollar...

Dick Lugar’s Iran problem: 1998 – one of only four Senators to oppose Iran Missile Sanctions Act

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 3 Comments

Dick Lugar's strong point in the campaign against Richard Mourdock is Lugar's claim to foreign policy expertise. Yet an examination of Lugar's history shows consistent wishful thinking on Iran, something which will be the subject of posts over the next two weeks in the run up to the...

Should be banned within 50 feet of schools

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 5 Comments

From reader and frequent photographer Ulises in Maryland: Caught at a stoplight in Hunt Valley...

Carbonite Limbaugh boycott cracking?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 7 Comments

Very, very interesting. I had heard from a reader a couple of weeks ago that she heard a Carbonite ad running on the Rush Limbaugh show on a radio station in Texas: I was in the car running errands so I just don't remember the exact time....

Student Govt. at Boston College Releases Statement Condemning ICE

Indiana U. School of Medicine Offers Training in ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment’

CUNY Prof Under Fire for Allegedly Making Racist Comments on Zoom Call

Texas Tech Cancels Event Organized by Group Promoting Late-Term Abortions

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk Murder Case

North Dakota State Urges ‘Safe Zone’ Trainees to Sign LGBT ‘Ally’ Pledge

Battle of the Obama Celebrity ads

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 25 Comments

Which do you think is better, the original Obama Celebrity ad run by the McCain campaign in 2008, or the new one from American Crossroads which was just released? First, the original: Here's how the NY Times Editorial Board characterized the McCain ad: The ad gave us an uneasy...

Don’t stand your middle ground

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 21 Comments

A reader sent me the following in response to my post about that thing that doesn't matter in the least to me: Over the past year, I've moved your bookmark steadily up & to the left. Since last fall it's been among the 18-20 that my screen width...

RNC marketing fail: Is the Republican convention about parking?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 26, 2012 41 Comments

Today some on the Right conceded that Obama's the one with the "cool" factor. Does that mean the Republicans need to cede all marketing savvy, though? Compare the RNC and DNC convention websites and ask yourself what caption you'd write under the images. The splash page...

Why Israel fights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 22 Comments

Today's is the 64th anniversary of Israel's founding. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some. Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO's, "peace" groups, academia, the...

“Young Guns Support Elderly RINO” Dick Lugar (Update: Mourdock up by 5 in new poll)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 34 Comments

That's the headline Bill Kristol gives to this Politico report: The Young Guns Network, a group affiliated with two former aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, paid more than $100,000 in mail costs to help embattled Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, federal filings show. The expenditure showed...

Thank you, Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 53 Comments

Newt Gingrich will be exiting the race next week. Newt not only will endorse Mitt Romney for President, Newt will pledge to work without rest to defeat Obama. Is there anyone Romney would rather have on his side than Newt? Oh yes, Newt will go there so...

The House fell on her head

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 5 Comments

Yes it did. From reader Kathy, taken near Gainesville, FL: ...

Where are they now?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 23 Comments

One of my favorite photos, run on the blog a number of times in the past. Something about it just seems to sum up the mania which swept the nation in 2008. Now that Obama is in full-out pander mode to the youth (as he sells out...

Understatements

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 6 Comments

Understatement (via John Sexton): Many critics view The Times as constitutionally unable to address the election in an unbiased fashion. Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama’s election in 2008...

Blue Dogs down

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 18 Comments

Two moderate Blue Dog incumbent Democrats lost to left-wing, union-backed challengers in Pennsylvania yesterday: The Blue Dogs' bark in Congress is sounding more and more like a whimper. The once-powerful coalition of conservative Democrats suffered two more casualties on Tuesday as Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., lost to...

The “Progressive” brand — for what does it stand?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 25, 2012 46 Comments

Yesterday we learned that Representative Allen West (R-FL) was disinvited from an NAACP fundraiser in his home state of Florida. Last week, West had commented that "I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party." West,...

Gag

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2012 40 Comments

The RNC just released a video comparing Obama's Jimmy Fallon appearance with Mitt Romney's victory speech last night. I had thought about that comparison this morning when I watched the video of the Fallon appearance. Obama has turned the Office of the Presidency into a sight and...