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"We view ourselves as the cop on the beat" to get DEI discrimination out of higher ed

Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport - US Embassy and Israelis Deny

Democrats to Defy Leadership With Protests for Trump's State of the Union

More Turkish threats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 4 Comments

It's all about the natural gas and Erdogan's ego: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as "madness" on Wednesday, raising the stakes in a confrontation over potentially huge deposits in the eastern Mediterranean...

Wisconsin’s long, strange trip

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

Thanks to reader Heather, who writes: Seen on a parked Prius in Sister Bay, WI Oh, the comments I could make! In a follow up e-mail, Heather wrote: In forgot to tell you; on the other side of the bumper was the obligatory "coexist" bumper sticker! Comments, why comments about...

“… like Thomas Paine and other deep thinkers from before the revolutionary war…”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 21 Comments

I was pleased to meet a long time reader at my Tea Party presentation at the Cornell Club on Monday night, and even more pleased to get this e-mail afterwards: Professor Jacobson, It was a pleasure to meet you last night and hear your presentation. In my...

Can The Daily Caller survive?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 76 Comments

I haven't posted about the Twitter and blog war which broke out over a clip of Mike Tyson trash talking Sarah Palin in very explicit and violent sexual ways, although I did spotlight Dan Riehl's post about it as Post of the Day. The controversy is...

What’s past is present: “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 13 Comments

Figures. I was on the bus this morning heading back to Ithaca from my Tea Party talk at the Cornell Club in NYC when I spotted on my PDA a post by Ed Morrissey about an AP Fact Check debunking Obama's claim that secretaries pay higher taxes than...

North Carolina Elementary Teacher Who Identifies as ‘Transgender Wolf’ Fired After Complaint

NY High School Teacher Placed on Leave After Offering to Help Students Form TPUSA Chapter

Education Dept. Announces Multiple Universities to End Partnerships with the Ph.D. Project

Police Say No Evidence That Black Virginia Tech Prof Was Victim of Racist Attack

DePaul U. Investigating Alleged Harassment of Jewish Students at Coffee Shop

Caltech Astrophysicist Gunned Down on His Front Porch

One More Item For Far Left’s Ever-Expanding List Of Unapproved Behaviors That Murder People

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 15 Comments

First it was "targeting" congressional seats. Then, it was opposing gay marriage. Now, as The Other McCain reports, not publicizing one's (alleged) bisexuality. “I gave Ellen Page a decent chance to come out with the truth,” Topitschnig posted on V-Generations. “Two months ago, I mentioned her in my...

Newt Gingrich thinks it is the late 90s

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 20, 2011 8 Comments

and I wish he was right. The fledgling candidate announced in Iowa that he is going to propose a newer Contract with America: It “will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994,” he told an audience of about 40 people Monday night in Council Bluffs....

Ron Paul Buys California GOP Straw Poll

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 1 Comment

The Sacramento Bee reports that the Ron Paul campaign cut a $26,000 check to fund most of Ron Paul's votes in the recent California Straw poll at the California Republican Party convention. Participation cost around $100 per vote, and Paul won with 374 votes. Good. The...

Cornell Club NYC last night

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

I gave a talk last night at the Cornell Club of New York City in Manhattan. The topic was the Tea Party Movement, and the thesis was: Professor Jacobson will argue that the Tea Party movement has been among the most influential and most positive forces...

Today’s Lawless Radicals Don’t Understand Civil Disobedience

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 20, 2011 6 Comments

As Althouse reports and Instapundit distills, concerning a violent protest: ...

OMG ’12

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2011 6 Comments

Thanks to reader Megan, who took this photo a few days agao in Pigeon Forge, TN: ...

If you only read

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 11 Comments

one op-ed today, I hope it is Mary O'Grady's column in the Wall Street Journal: "Big Labor's Yanqui Imperialism." On the face of it, the National Labor Relations Board's effort to block a new Boeing plant slated for the right-to-work state of South Carolina seems like...

The Drudge of School Choice

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 6 Comments

Today marks the launch of ChoiceMedia.tv, the news hub of school choice activism in the U.S. I'm really excited to see the site under the direction of Bob Bowdon, director of The Cartel Movie and contributor to the Onion News Network. Hopefully, the site will provide a...

BlueCheddar melts, pulls video confession of “beer pouring” guy (but the internet never forgets)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2011 18 Comments

BlueCheddar is a Wisconsin "progressive" website that posted a video confession by an anti-Republican stalker who poured beer over a Republican legislator. The stalker has been charged with disorderly conduct, but the conduct potentially was a felony battery under Wisconsin Statutes 940.20(4): (4) Battery to public officers. Whoever intentionally causes...

How wide is the al Qaeda net?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 9 Comments

I came across an interesting post this morning on the Journal's Numbers Guy blog. I think we all have a tendency to think of al Qaeda as a large force, certainly they've been difficult to track down, but how big is the organization? From the print...

Hay, that’s pretty funny

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Danelle who writes: We took this one this afternoon in Wise County, just west of Dallas. Wise County is one of Texas' hard hit counties from both drought and wildfire, the most recent being last week. Many ranchers in the area are hard put...

Time for an invervention, Obama’s on a tax hike bender

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2011 32 Comments

Five days ago Obama unveiled a "jobs plan" which included tax hikes of $467 billion, $400 billion of which were on individuals making $200,000 (and couples making $250,000). Tomorrow Obama will unveil a "deficit reduction plan" which will include $1.5 trillion in new taxes including an extra tax...