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Democrats Think They're Winning Back Men and Rural Voters in 2026

MTG's Exit Interview with The NY Times: Scorn, Self-Pity, and a Rewrite of History

MIT "Womxn" Only Physics and Bio Grad Programs Challenged by Equal Protection Project

“What happens after the next soldier is kidnapped?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 16 Comments

That's the question asked at the end of a long Jerusalem Post report on the negotiations leading to the swap of over 1000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were responsible for the most heinous terrorist attacks which killed hundreds of Israelis, for captured Israeli soldier...

Politico’s BHO Moment

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 2 Comments

The homepage of Politico this morning resembled the now-infamous Esquire ode de love to Barack Obama. Obama as heir to the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy, marching arm-in-arm with those who walked arm-in-arm with Dr. King: Except that the story was not quite at the cover indicated,...

Occupy Boston Displaces Food Drive, Spits On Soldier; Right Sphere Raises Money for Boston Food Bank

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 14, 2011 7 Comments

Yesterday, #OWS Boston assaulted a female Coast Guard member in uniform: The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters. The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul...

Let me guess, UN will charge Israel with animal cruelty

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

It's been a while since I've been able to post a good Stuxnet story. Stuxnet, you will recall, is the malicious malware which has plagued the Iranian nuclear program and which is blamed -- without proof -- on Israel. The PJ Tatler notes that an Iranian attempt this...

Join the Big Government OWS crowdsourcing project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 6 Comments

Big Government is launching a crowdsourcing project for a cache of documents obtained regarding the organization and implementation of the Occupy Wall Street movement (via Ace, who is participating): In keeping with the new media notion of crowdsourcing–enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media when trawling through Sarah...

Lincoln University Prof Claims School Changed His Students' Grades Without Asking

Duke University Cut Hundreds of Millions Through Various Means in Response to Federal Cuts

Students and Faculty at UC-Berkeley Unhappy About Suspension of Anti-Israel Lecturer

Erika Kirk Says Turning Point USA Will Continue College Campus Debates

U. San Francisco to Employ AI in Admissions Process

U. Minnesota Profs Enter Third Year of Study on ‘Antiracist Parenting’

RI Gov. Linc Chafee gets to protect murderer from feds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 7 Comments

Back in June I posted about how RI Gov. Linc Chafee was refusing to turn Jason Wayne Pleau over to the feds because Pleau potentially was subject to the death penalty in connection with a murder committed on the steps of a federal bank. The feds never indicated...

He’ll meet your Nobaama and raise you an Omagine

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 14, 2011 9 Comments

This is a follow up to the post yesterday featureing the Nobaama Arizona license plate spotted in Peoria, AZ. Thanks to reader Caroll who spotted this collection in Tucson: ...

Thin. Skinned.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 23 Comments

Via Media Bistro: FNC’s Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry got the first question at today’s joint news conference between Pres. Obama and Lee Myung-Bak, President of South Korea. Henry asked the president about the alleged Iranian terror plot, and used a quote from GOP presidential...

Now they want to #OccupyJudaism

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 16 Comments

There have been some highly publicized anti-Semitic outbursts at the Occupy Wall Street protests, as well as claims of anti-Semitism lodged against the organizing group, AdBusters. So now some progressive Jews have formed an Occupy Judaism movement presumably to deflect from the criticism and to mainstream Jewish...

Rules for WI Radicals

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 11 Comments

Via Charlie Sykes, here are some of them, click to the link for all of them: Never acknowledge conservative victories as legitimate. Rely on Dane County judges whenever possible. Elections only matter if liberals win. Private businesses, families, personal lives are all fair game. Get the Mainstream...

Obama fundraising fail

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 16 Comments

Obama raised $42 million for his campaign in the third quarter, plus another $27.3 million for the DNC. Naturally, the top line $70 million joint number is being hyped. These numbers come from an Obama campaign statement, the official FEC report has not yet been released,...

What was that Shakespeare line about political scientists?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 13 Comments

Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing refocusing funding away from liberal arts programs at state universities and colleges, which has various groups accusing Scott of being anti-anthropology, or something like that. Instapundit has the story and lots of reader comments. Let me suggest that Scott is not...

If you thought Arizona was in trouble before

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 7 Comments

just wait until Eric Holder gets a look at this bumper sticker and license plate. Thanks to reader Donald, who spotted this in Peoria, Arizona, and writes: Here's a license plate that is probably illegal in every state except Arizona...

“Miss Her Yet?” Debate Retweet of the Night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 39 Comments

Looking at all the non-Romney candidates last night, I kept thinking, "Miss her yet?" (Note: If someone could do the graphic, I'd love to post it.) Particularly after this question and answer: TUMULTY: Congressman Gingrich -- Speaker Gingrich, Medicare is going broke. Consider the fact that half of...

About last night’s debate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 59 Comments

The more I see Rick Perry in action the more I like him, but the more I get the feeling that he's not up to the task of defeating Romney, much less Obama. I'm not writing him off, at all, but he has to play...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 35 Comments

In the car much of the morning, so the blog belongs to you! (I think I just made a big mistake.) Update 12:45 p.m.: Party over, I'm back....

Three years old

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 22 Comments

October 12, 2008, a day which shall live in infamy. The day of the first post at this thing called a blog which some guy decided to call Legal Insurrection: Obama is “Door No. 2″ It seemed like a good idea at the time. Three years later the scorecard shows over 9,750,000...