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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"

Get ready for the Union Battle of Ohio 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

Unions have collected enough signatures for a statewide referendum on election day 2011 seeking to roll back Ohio's collective bargaining reform bill. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The fate of Senate Bill 5, Ohio's new collective bargaining law, will be in the hands of Ohio...

Widener Law Prof. Lawrence Connell Wins Dismissal Case

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

I have written several times about the ordeal of Widener Law Professor Lawrence Connell, who was given notice of dismissal after he used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean Linda Ammons being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that...

Countdown to the debt deal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Speculation abounds, from The NY Times on down (or is it, on up?): The Obama administration has informed Democratic Congressional leaders that President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner were starting to close in on a major budget deal that would enact substantial spending cuts and...

MSNBC engages in self-parody, hires Al Sharpton for 6 p.m. slot

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

Unbelievable. By any standard. MSNBC to hire Al Sharpton for 6 p.m. slot, according to The NY Times: Mr. Sharpton’s imminent hiring, which was acknowledged by three people at the channel on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been signed, is significant in part because...

Polyamory – at least be honest about it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 56 Comments

I told you so: Once society decides that one-man, one-woman no longer is the “arbitrary” standard, on what rational basis do we stop at one-and-one? Jonathan Turley in The New York Times, One Big, Happy Polygamous Family: ...

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

Larry Summers to Resign Harvard Teaching Appointments Over Epstein Files

Student Govt. at Boston College Releases Statement Condemning ICE

Indiana U. School of Medicine Offers Training in ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment’

AllenWestForCongress.com

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 12 Comments

It's going to be hard not to put him on my Top 10 for 2012, just as he was on my Top 10 list for 2010. I can't disagree with his comments about what's her name, except (perhaps) to the extent he used the term "most." ...

Did the Obama Administration Obtain Gunwalker Info To Justify A New Gun Control Measure?

Posted by Matthew Knee on July 21, 2011 8 Comments

Perhaps so. Katie Pavlich has obtained an email in which ATF Assistant Director of Field Operations Mark R. Chait wrote the following: This does not prove, as some on the right side of the blogosphere are saying, that Gunwalker was designed to produce evidence to justify...

Something fishy going on with Twitter?

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 21, 2011 16 Comments

This Monday, Twitter suspended several accounts belonging to a prominent Texas conservative organization, Empower Texans, its staff, and another conservative organization, AgendaWise, created by a former employee. The best part? They received no notice or explanation of the suspension. Here's part of Empower Texans' official...

Old San Francisco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2011 9 Comments

From my recent trip to San Francisco, something old, something new: ...

Expect a 45-day or 75-day debt extension

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 10 Comments

Obama may be open to short term debt deal: The White House signaled Wednesday that President Obama could accept a short-term deal to raise the debt ceiling, but only if it appeared lawmakers were close to an agreement on a significant deficit reduction plan. Obama previously had...

You want gene pool destruction? You got it.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 8 Comments

Is that what you want? I'll give you gene pool destruction on such a vile, despicable, cowardly level that it will change the way you think forever: Gene Pool DestructionNow go home and pray for the survival of the species. Or not....

Could Cut, Cap, and Balance pass the Senate?

Posted by Michael Alan on July 20, 2011 6 Comments

Senator Jim DeMint is circulating this video from the Club for Growth showing twenty (!) Senate Democrats pledging their support for a Balanced Budget Amendment. As a little bit of context, H.R. 2560 did pass with support from five House Democrats last night, so it's...

Debt Bomb Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 10 Comments

I will not be able to follow the debt bomb bombast today since it's a travel day back from the brink (a/k/a San Francisco). Have we sold out yet and declared victory?...

Sit back and enjoy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 16 Comments

Via The Last Tradition, Rep. Joe Walsh gives it to Chrissy: ...

Skip the primaries, let PPP pick our nominee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2011 7 Comments

How pathetic is this. The Daily Caller is reporting as news that Public Policy Polling, a Democratic pollster which has a nasty habit of doing polling meant to generate anti-Republican headlines, and using skewed sampling, is dropping Tim Pawlenty from some of its polling questions. I don't really care...

A simpler solution?

Posted by Katie Thompson on July 20, 2011 5 Comments

With the August 2 deadline quickly approaching, there's been a lot of talk about the debt plans bouncing around Congress - Paul Ryan's plan; Cut, Cap, and Balance; McConnell's divisive plan; Obama's largely nonexistent $4 trillion idea, etc. But there's another solution out there: the...