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Anti-ICE Church Invaders Chanted Fabricated BLM "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Slogan

Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks

"A lot of people mistake this as a fight to save education. It's not. It's a fight to save the country."

Tonight’s debate – Attack (of the?) Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2011 6 Comments

Yes, there is another debate tonight. I haven't decided whether to go "live" or do commentary at the breaks. While it would be easy to complain about yet another debate, I think the debates have been worthwhile in sorting out the candidates. Tonight will be the...

Legal Insurrection fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2011 25 Comments

It's been a really long time (almost two years, I think) since I've done this. A number of readers have been very generous over the years both in making one time donations and monthly subscriptions (starting at $5 per month) [Some people have had trouble with these...

Occupy has more than a woman problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2011 20 Comments

What kind of movement calls female supporters "white bitches"? And what type of women take that to be a term of endearment? Via The Atlantic, The Occupy Movement's Women Problem: "I'm called 'that white bitch who gets everything she wants' at the GA's," says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit...

Shadowy Union SuperPAC Joins Alan Grayson As Accidental LI Advertisers

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 22, 2011 3 Comments

Fresh off seeing Alan Grayson ads all over conservative blogs (including LI), I’m now seeing an independent expenditure campaign against Scott Brown that highlights his conservative votes. Ironically, it might even be helpful to Brown for such ads to appear on sometimes-skeptical conservative sites to highlight...

Don’t blame me, either

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2011 5 Comments

Thanks to reader Don who writes: I'm a big fan of your blog, and so I'm happy to contribute...

President of Southeastern University Sounds Alarm on Inability of Many College Students to Read

Washington Post Runs Article Criticizing Erika Kirk's Wardrobe

UMass Lowell Radio DJ Under Investigation for Allegedly Threatening JD Vance

DePaul University Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine Until 2027

Brown University Students Return to Campus for First Time Since Shooting

U. Utah Class Explores ‘Black Trans Lesbian Marxists,' Radical Literature

Super Committee Roundup

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 21, 2011 23 Comments

From the AP: With the collapse of the deficit-cutting supercommittee, Congress' emergency backup budget-cutting plan now is supposed to take over — automatic, across-the-board spending reductions of roughly $1 trillion from military and well as domestic government programs. But the big federal deficit reductions that are to...

Ayn Rand is not a synonym for libertarianism.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 21, 2011 4 Comments

Not that anyone who should try to find out about the distinction would care, but Ayn Rand ≠ libertarianism. I recently had an email forwarded to me by a friend on an "Occupy" listserve from an academic with the subject line "A little something for the libertarians"...

Science: Moderation Did Not Lose McCain The Election, And Is An Asset For Electability – And That’s Why The “Establishment” Acts Like It Is

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 21, 2011 31 Comments

There is a belief on the right that John McCain lost because he was too liberal and conservatives chose to stay home on election day. Some who hold this belief threaten to go Scozzafava on the GOP and refuse to work to stop Obama if...

Stop playing the Democrats’ lobbyist game

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments

Dr. Melissa Clouthier writing about An Indictment Of Right Leaning Journalism By Ben Domenech: Here’s the nutshell: The Left-leaning journalism investigates the right. The Right-leaning journalism provides commentary and (and Ben doesn’t say this, but I am) when they do rarely investigate, investigates the right after being...

How Obama would attack Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 16 Comments

The same way Ted Kennedy and John McCain did. And it's already showing results for Obama. Mitt Romney's negatives are rising because of some initial attacks by the Obama campaign apparatus on Romney's "core" and his Wall Street connections: The Purple Poll, a survey of 12 swing...

OWS Pays Children Cigarettes For Fraudulent Recall Scott Walker Signatures

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 21, 2011 3 Comments

What happens when you combine OWS with the Recall Walker movement? A perfect storm of horrible (embedding not working for me right now, so linked): Hat tip: GatewayPundit....

Disrespectful booing of national figures, and the people who do it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments

You probably have heard about the inappropriate booing of one of our national figures. Such conduct undoubtedly reflected latent racial tingedness and ethnic subtextism. The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a profile of the type of person who engages in such conduct, after an exhaustive study of the person who once threw a...

No you don’t read banned books

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 18 Comments

... unless you read the Bible in public school. Spotted this vehicle in Albany, NY, last week when I made a day trip there (about 3 hours from Ithaca): ...

“he will need to wage the most negative campaign in history to stand any chance”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 22 Comments

So? What makes you think that would give him a second thought? The quoted language in the headline is from Pat Caddell and Doug Shoen in a column at The Wall Street Journal urging Obama not to run for re-election for the sake of preserving the...

Why is Chris Matthews portraying Obama as “The Other”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 20 Comments

How often have we heard that portraying Obama as out of touch with the American people constitutes a racially tinged and undertoned use of Otherness? Just the other day Rick Perry was accused of invoking Otherness when he said Obama had been privileged: Rick Perry, seeking to paint President...

What was this all about?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 17 Comments

I had not heard this story before, but then again, I didn't pay much attention to the Republican primaries in 2008: In 2008 it was uncovered long after the primaries had been concluded that the Romney campaign staff had in unethical and covert ways infiltrated prominent conservative...

Super Committee Sunday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2011 14 Comments

The so-called Super Committee is on the brink of failure, if it has not already failed: The congressional committee tasked with reducing the federal deficit is poised to admit defeat as soon as Monday, and its unfinished business will set up a year-end battle over emergency...