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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"

More Leftist Hypocrisy: The MSA 11 vs. Laws Restricting Abortion Clinic Protests

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Several nights ago, I found myself arguing with a hyperpriviledged, self-identified anarcho-socialist (don't ask me how that works) about the MSA 11. He and his friends believed them to have been convicted by a racist Orange County jury, under unconstitutional laws. As we were discussing the...

Best #OccupyWallStreet Tweet Ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 5 Comments

Doubly good. First, because the tweet by CNN reporter Alison Kosik was hysterical, and second, because the humorless leftist reaction (added: here, here) to the tweet caused her to take it down, but it lives on because people grabbed screenshots. ...

Science: Leftist Anti-Semitism At Anti-Business Protests Predictable

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 2 Comments

Professor Jacobson and Andrew Breitbart's recent coverage of anti-Semitic incidents at the Occupy Wall Street protests were no surprise to me. A top notch study by political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit back in 2009 found that triggering anti-semitic concepts increased support for anti-business...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded scientific denier

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2011 14 Comments

There is a lesson here, it's that we cannot allow science to become religion, and must always question scientific authority particularly when it is used for political purposes. From The NY Times (emphasis mine): Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday...

Can’t Stop The Signal – UW-Stout Caves

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 7 Comments

Facing legal action and Internet backlash, University of Wisconsin-Stout has decided to retract their decision to force a professor to take down controversial Firefly and anti-fascism posters: In retrospect, however, it is clear that the removal of the posters - although done with the best intent...

Florida Democrat Says Charlie Kirk 'Was Not Assassinated'

Wesleyan U. President Writes Blog Post Praising Anti-ICE Efforts During 'War on Minnesota'

Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical and Law School Enrollment

Yale Investigating Antisemitic Graffiti Spray-Painted Into Snow on Campus

Pro-Abortion Prof Backs Out of Notre Dame Leadership Role After Protests

Teacher Claims School Threatened to Fire Him for Refusing to Read LGBT Book to 1st Graders

Rats Good, Pilgrims Bad

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 9 Comments

Sums up the bumper stickers of this West L.A. lefty's Prius. Of course, thanks to experimentation on rats and other animals, we aren't dying in droves at young ages like the pilgrims. ...

The entire mainstream media will jump on this to impugn the entire #OccupyWallStreet movement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

Just like they did when they found a crazy sign at a Tea Party rally. On the other hand, it might be dismissed as a mere aberration, with serious caution urged not to use the actions of a few to impugn an entire movement. (h/t comment by myiq2xu) Update: More of...

Obama “Jobs Bill” Headline of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

... Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill Do you need to know anything else? If so, the article is here....

Mass. Senate Debate Tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 8 Comments

I'll be watching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Debate tonight at 7 p.m. because it will be the first appearance of Elizabeth Warren. I haven't decided what to do in the race, despite the overwhelming reader vote to support Brown, but I'll be listening. The debate will...

Fast And Furious Roundup: Holder Lied, People Died?

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 23 Comments

I haven't covered this scandal in a while, so here is a roundup of where this story has been going. Who knows, it might even get serious enough that the MSM will take a break from looking under rocks in middle-of-nowhere-Texas for dirt on Republicans...

NY Times’ poster child for #OccupyWallStreet not what he seems (Update: Cole responds)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 32 Comments

The NY Times Dealbook section takes a very sympathetic look at the Occupy Wall Street protests, On Wall Street, a Protest Matures. The article leads with a feature on Andrew Cole, who arrived from Madison, Wisconsin (shock!) where he recently lost a job: “I think a good deal...

“I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 9 Comments

So e-mails reader and commenter KC_MRBB KC_MRBB, with a link to the video below, referring to my prior post The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks from October 27, 2008. Related: The Revolt of the Kulaks Has Begun...

What Democracy Looks (And Sounds) Like

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 11 Comments

A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is "This is what democracy looks like!" - a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people. Yes, these protests are examples of...

Iranian Pastor, Facing Death For Apostasy, Now Facing Death For “Zionism”

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 04, 2011 3 Comments

Last week, I reported that an Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, was to be sentenced to death for apostasy. Now, the political branches in Iran are upping the stakes, intending to execute him for being a Zionist threat to national security instead. We should all remember, as Obama...

After the love has gone

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2011 4 Comments

Something happened along the way. Now yesterday is all they have. Thanks to reader Allen, who writes: Found on the street in Oakland, CA - looks like disillusion has truly set in. ...

Babi Yar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2011 9 Comments

Today marked the 70th commemoration of the Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jews in September 1941 at the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar. I visited the site in 1978, at which point a monument had been erected at the site. Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem, which was not officially...

A hefty serving of snark

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 03, 2011 13 Comments

As some of you may recall, Meghan McCain started a twitter war with Prof. Jacobson after she misread both the content and the author of a post earlier this year. As a consequence, I've avoided taking jabs at McCain the younger from fear that she might...