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Dems Threaten To Shut Down Gov't If DHS Funding Included In Appropriations Bill

Minneapolis Anti-ICE Protester Reportedly Bites Off Finger Of DHS Agent

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

The “did someone say something to reporters today” Pre-Super Tuesday Results Special Edition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 25 Comments

Apparantly Obama held his first press conference of the year today, the Republican Super Tuesday, because yesterday and tomorrow were unavailable. This all sounds vaguely familiar. I did not watch. Front Groups for the SEIU . . . and the Teamsters . . . and ACORN! Producer...

Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 71 Comments

On Saturday, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced that it was dropping its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show even after Limbaugh had apologized to Sandra Fluke for certain comments made regarding Ms. Fluke. When the controversy originally broke, Carbonite took a principled stand that its advertising was...

No Country for old Free Exercise Clauses

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 35 Comments

Commenter CWLsun put together a list of links in the Tip Line regarding the explicit plan of various law school branches of Students for Reproductive Freedom to establish secular contraceptive policies at Catholic educational institutions. I don't have a problem with that when it is done without using the force...

Only the Tea Party, Christians, Republicans, and Conservatives are allowed to be portrayed as everything Hollywood actually is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 32 Comments

The Hollywood movie industry is not racist just because there are few blacks or other racial minorities in leading roles, on the set, or in the executive suite. Hollywood is not sexist even though the culture of the casting couch still lives, and young women are expected to perform...

Cornell physicist speaks out against campus “attempt to make Israel illegitimate”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 19 Comments

This is a GUEST POST by Professor Yuval Grossman, an Israeli physicist and Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, where his research involves theoretical high energy physics. But first a short background. Cornell and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology recently won a joint bid to to build a high...

St. John’s University Continues to Block Approval of Turning Point USA

Columbia Picks Former U. Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor as Fourth New President in Two Years

The History Behind Rampant Antisemitism at CUNY

Young Man Who Skipped College to Become an Electrician Now Makes Six Figures

Feminist Historian Claims Shakespeare was a Black Jewish Woman

Kansas Bill Honoring Charlie Kirk Seeks to Protect Free Speech on College Campuses

Huge red flag

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2012 26 Comments

What, you didn't get new sidewalks too? From reader "9th District Neighbor": I though you would enjoy the photo I've attached of a street crossing near a park in Evanston, IL--home to Jan Schakowsky. The sign was a recent addition in a series of "improvements" to this crossing...

They don’t want an apology, they want a confession

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 57 Comments

Ann Althouse gets deep into the weeds on apologies, and finds that some apologies are more equal than others in the eyes of the Democratic Commisariate (emphasis in original): Now, I believe in general principles, and I want to know what the general principle is about accepting...

Andrew Breitbart media timeline, 2009-2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 17 Comments

Target Point Consulting has put together a very interesting timeline of key points in Andrew Breitbart's internet and media mentions (pdf version). Sent to me by Matthew Knee. (Click image to enlarge or view pdf. version) ...

Rush: “I descended to their level …”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 103 Comments

Rush started off by joking that his phone line was so busy he couldn't cancel advertising on his own show for Two If By Tea, the product he produces and markets. He then addressed his apology, and his motives. I'll post more, but here is a partial...

Carbonite background

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 26 Comments

Jeffrey Lord (via Instapundit) addresses the attempt to drive away Rush Limbaugh's advertisers, focusing particularly on Carbonite: In other words, to put it politely, Mr. Friend's woe-is-me I'm-withdrawing-my-company's sponsorship-from-Rush Limbaugh-because of-my-lovely-daughters is as close to certifiable BS as one can imagine. Mr. Friend, one can only suspect, placed...

Welcome to total political war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 114 Comments

And I'm not talking about the attempt to get advertisers to stop advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show, or Fox News, although that would be bad enough. I'm talking about the second-tier of the warfare, the attempt to intimidate those removed by one or more degrees of...

Why should I want less if more is free?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2012 11 Comments

As an aside, ever notice how libertarians love to self-righteously pat themselves on the back? Thanks to reader Bill, who spotted this vehicle in Evans City, PA, and writes: North of Pittsburgh. As a long time reader I enjoy your work! Keep it up! The zombie sticker is...

Good advice

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 70 Comments

on life from Bill Whittle included in the video tribute to Andrew Bretibart I linked to this morning, and from "Jim Treacher" of The Daily Caller: I admired him more than I can say, and my heart goes out to him and his loved ones. But this...

Gainful Employment Rule

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on March 04, 2012 18 Comments

David vs. Goliath In 1986, I graduated from Penn State University. My costs to attend for four years are about the same it costs to attend there today for one year. In a little over two decades, the cost of higher education has skyrocketed; and what...

David Gregory loves him that contraception issue

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 48 Comments

Good for Newt for pushing back against David Gregory. This segment epitomizes almost everything about how the MSM tries to frame the narrative against conservatives and particularly against religious Christians. It actually got worse. After Newt, Gregory did the same thing to Eric Cantor, and then demanded...

Make an example of Carbonite (Update: ProFlowers joins Rush boycott)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 251 Comments

Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn't think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities. Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring down Fox News and investigate its executives, and Fox News advertisers have been...

“Why not give Andy a country worth dying for”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2012 46 Comments

In addition to the line quoted in the title, listen to what Breitbart told him the core of the problem was: The media. Nothing proves how right Breitbart was as the last few days of complete and utter absurdity regarding Sandra Fluke. Her testimony should have...