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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

Elizabeth Warren: Everything you have belongs to us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 51 Comments

This is almost enough to cause me to rescind my Bye Bye Brown pronouncement, because Elizabeth Warren ascending to the Senate to replace Scott Brown would make Ted Kennedy seem like the good ol' days. The progressives are in a lather about this video by Warren...

“If this was 2013, Obama might be in a different groove”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 4 Comments

There is one worthwhile clause in an otherwise worthless article at The Atlantic by Steve Clemons, Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in the Back of the Bus. Clemons lays out the fiction that the Palestinian strategic move to take land without peace is something Gandhi-like: Obama's position on this is dangerous in...

They’ll pay tribute to anything once…

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 22, 2011 6 Comments

Today "House leaders will pay tribute to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), less than a year after the House formally censured the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will speak at a ceremony to unveil Rangel’s official portrait as chairman of...

Thankfully, no corn dogs were served

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 26 Comments

Check out the Cornell Chronicle article about my Tea Party talk, Law professor's talk on the Tea Party triggers heated debate. Could they possibly have picked a worse photo? Thankfully, they didn't serve corn dogs at the event. Related Posts: “… like Thomas Paine and other deep thinkers from...

Texas Executes Murderer of James Byrd – After NAACP Smeared Bush On Hate Crimes Law

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 22, 2011 7 Comments

While media eyes were focused on the disputed Troy Davis execution in Georgia, Texas was executing a brutal and completely unrepentant murderer. Last night, Texas executed white supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer for the murder of James Byrd Jr. One accomplice, John William King, remains on death...

Texas Tech Prof Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Fentanyl Ring

Kennesaw State U. Students Yell ‘F*** ICE’ During Walkout Protest

College Fires Prof for Calling Charlie Kirk, TPUSA ‘Racist Pieces of Sh*t’ in Class

Man Who Bought Campus of Green Mountain College Wants to Give it Away for Free

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

Conservatives coalescing around … Mitt?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 22 Comments

Via HotAir, Mitt Romney has scored two significant conservative endorsements recently, Jeff Flake and Darrel Issa. While that may not constitute a coalescing around Romney, it does help insulate him from RINO charges. Whatever he once was, is he now the conservative who can win? What's up...

Palestinians Show Their True Goal With UN Logo That Wipes Israel Off The Map

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 22, 2011 11 Comments

The Weekly Standard reports: Note the logo, which depicts "Palestine" as all of Israel. The root of the conflict is not that Israel currently controls the West Bank. The root of the conflict is that the Palestinians and their allies are still unwilling to accept that Israel...

Road Trip, Part 1

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 7 Comments

Name withheld for a reason which will become obvious. From reader "Joe": I just returned from a road trip from SD to VA for my mother's funeral. As I drove down the WV Turnpike I snapped this pic of a billboard. I'd seen it before on a previous...

Tea Party Kippot!

Posted by Matthew Knee on September 21, 2011 5 Comments

Found the following at a local judaica shop called "The Mitzvah Store": This was the same shop I bought this at in '08 (I kinda wore it out): It did not appear that they were selling Obama kippot at that time. Maybe that's not a mitzvah....

The Palestinian bubble bursts again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 25 Comments

Why the Palestinians thought that a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S. was the way to go is inexplicable. Once again, they overplayed their hand. Did they really buy into Obama's rhetoric from 2009 in Cairo, or earlier this year about the Arab Spring? In part, a...

Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 65 Comments

Not able to get to posting this afternoon, so tell me what's on your minds. (Maybe, what do you think about bloggers from other blogs trolling the comment section here? Just a hypo, no one particular in mind.)...

Dissuasion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 13 Comments

Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: President Barack Obama told a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body, arguing against a proposed resolution calling...

Libertarianism: Lost in Translation

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 21, 2011 15 Comments

I get Presseurope, a roundup of translated opinion pieces from the EU, sent to my email. For the most part, the newsletter is incredibly informative. For instance, I had no idea that someone could honestly think that the Greeks deserved pity...

“I voted for him, I’m a Democrat, but Obama who?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 2 Comments

That's a line from this web ad released by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is capitalizing on the momentum from the NY-09 election: ...

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...