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Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Lawyer Among Three Arrested in Violent Restaurant Attack on Hebrew-Speaking Diners

Replacing History With Wildlife: The Suicidal Insanity of Anti-Western Ideology

I hope David Cicilline wins (the primary)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 4 Comments

David Cicilline, the former Mayor of Providence and current Democratic congressman from my home district RI-01, is in deep electoral trouble because he lied about Providence's abysmal finances during the 2010 congressional race. He has apologized for lying. With Providence on the verge of bankruptcy, Cicilline...

Obama on verge of his grand Iranian bargain

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 19 Comments

It looks like Obama is going to get the "grand bargain" which has been the point of U.S. policy towards Iran since the Obama administration stood silently as Iranians took to the streets in June 2009. The grand bargain theory assures the Iranian theocracy's continued control over not...

Walker rising, Barrett falling, Unions crying

Posted by Anne Segal on May 20, 2012 28 Comments

Saturday evening the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a sweeping endorsement of Governor Walker in the upcoming Wisconsin recall election. The news was a stunning endorsement for Walker, who faces democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in June, given that the newspaper has been known to have a...

exist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 7 Comments

Taken by Bryan in Savannah, GA, and forwarded with the message "Coexist with everyone...

Well said

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 11 Comments

Well said: Aaron Walker, victim: How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime (And How You Can Help!) Robert Stacy McCain does some fine journalism: Domestic Terrorist Now Using ‘Lawfare’? Lonely Conservative call to action: Calling All Conservative Bloggers – The Army of Davids Needs...

U. North Texas Cutting up to 70 Programs in Effort to Trim Deficit

Carnegie Mellon U. Hosts Anti-ICE Panel With Far Left Activists

Conservative Student Magazine at UW-Madison Repeatedly Thrown in the Trash

Missing U. Alabama Student Found Dead in Spain

Education Secretary McMahon Threatens SJSU Federal Funding for Title IX Violations

Vanderbilt Law Prof Explains the Challenge of Getting More Conservatives Into Higher Ed

Saturday Night Card Game (You know the general election has started when …)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 16 Comments

You know the general election has started when ...

Maryland’s April employment figures are cause for concern

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 19, 2012 16 Comments

Maryland’s loss of 6,000 jobs was the largest of any state in the nation last month. Some have been quick to write off the figures as a product of unusual weather patterns affecting seasonal hiring practices, but there is a growing belief that the Maryland...

Syria’s chickens coming home to roost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 6 Comments

But it's no time for joy. The dithering on Syria has given the same elements who transitted Syria to kill U.S. troops in Iraq a chance to build up their operations in Syria and return the violence on the Syrian government. Suicide blast in Syria hits...

Three from F*** the Police march charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism

Posted by Anne Segal on May 19, 2012 21 Comments

Early Saturday morning, three of the Occupy protesters from the "nonviolent" F*** the Police march were charged with "possession of an incendiary or explosive device, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and providing material support for terrorism." The arrests stemmed from allegations they were planning to create...

We need to be more careful about Elizabeth Warren than she is about being Cherokee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 20 Comments

There is zero evidence that Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee, despite her having touted such heritage at various times, and she stands by that claim in the face of contrary evidence. Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, and to some extent your humble correspondent, have laid Warren's claims...

But if you fire him, who will give you all the free stuff?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 10 Comments

Reader Bill from Florida is traveling, and spotted this pick-up truck which had a handicapped parking license plate, in Nevada City, CA: Whoda thunkit? Handicapped and all in Cali?!?! ...

NBC show to depict EMP-aftermath society

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 51 Comments

"Revolution," a new drama from NBC's fall lineup, depicts what life would look like in the aftermath of an EMP attack. Producer JJ. Abrams (Iron Man) sets the action in Chicago, 15 years after all electricity on the planet is wiped out. In the teaser, the...

Cherokee genealogist on Warren: “These are the people she stepped on”

Posted by Anne Segal on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

Today, Megyn Kelly of FOX News interviewed Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes about Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee heritage. Legal Insurrection has been breaking news on Warren's false claims, including extensive coverage of the genealogical records. In the interview with Kelly, Barnes says, "there's nothing to indicate she's...

Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair versus Richard Mourdock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 11 Comments

It's pretty unfair to compare Dana Milbank and Jayson Blair by lumping them together with no real connection, isn't it? Almost as bad as this headline and column from Dana Milbank lumping Richard Mourdock and federal prisoner Keith Judd together, Richard Mourdock and Keith Judd vs....

Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her fake Cherokee recipes?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 35 Comments

The Elizabeth Warren Cherokee saga is like opening up a Russian matryoshka doll, there's always something else inside. Or perhaps more appropriately, like peeling back The Onion. Please say this is not soooooo! From Michael Patrick Leahy: The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today...

Rahm to send dead fish to Ricketts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 21 Comments

Does this suprise anyone? Oh, to not agree with Rahm Emanuel in Chicago: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking...

Elizabeth Warren false Cherokee claim “like taking money out of the collection plate on a Sunday”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2012 24 Comments

That's part of a comment from reader stevewhitemd to my interview with Marisa DeFranco, who is challenging Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary: If Harvard were better at having a diverse professorship, it would not have to put someone who appears as white as I am out...