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In a world of standardized tests, should parents drop out of trying to help?

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 23, 2014 14 Comments

The Atlantic: Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework

NY-23 Dem challenger doubles-down on Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2014 14 Comments

Martha Robertson embraces "fix Obamacare" strategy, blames alleged underfunding of healthcare.gov for debacle

Sunday morning links

Posted by Mandy Nagy on March 23, 2014 1 Comment

Here’s a small selection of links for those of you who may be catching up on posts this weekend. After the passing of the head of Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, earlier this week, counter-protesters showed up at one of the group’s protests with a...

Remembering Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2014 3 Comments

March 14, 2014 was the fourth anniversary of the death of Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto in Afghanistan, as noted here before: Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto Promises a Marine Widow Cannot Bear to Hear Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, Remembered Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, March 14, 2010 Three...

2014 – Year of the Microaggression

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2014 25 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game - Everybody must get microaggressed

Rhode Island House Speaker resigning after fed and state police raid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2014 32 Comments

Gordon Fox steps down after boxes of evidence carried out of his office and home.

Giving up US control of internet naming while #Twitterisblocked in Turkey

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 22, 2014 2 Comments

Now we juxtapose.

Iran building fake Nimitz-class aircraft carrier

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 22, 2014 18 Comments

“Softer” foreign policy by Obama administration doesn’t appear to be improving U.S.-Iranian relations

“The Princeton Mom” Driving Them Mental Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2014 4 Comments

Another week of college antics, political correctness and general lunacy in the place we call “Higher Education”

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Racist dorm door writing was hoax, Grand Valley State U police say

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2014 41 Comments

Echoes of The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013.

History Bytes: New Podcast Program Connects Past with Present

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 22, 2014 4 Comments

I have been very grateful for the media experience gained by being a contributor at Legal Insurrection and the Executive Producer for Canto Talk. Professor Jacobson has been a big inspiration behind a project I have been working on and which is now ready to...

Roger Waters justifies anti-Israel boycott with fake Gandhi quote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 21, 2014 32 Comments

No evidence Gandhi ever said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Flight 370 and the limits of imaging

Posted by New Neo on March 21, 2014 18 Comments

The wall-to-wall coverage of Flight 370, despite the relative absence of new information, is not all that surprising. Much of the other news of the day—be it Obamacare, the Crimea takeover and Putin’s anschluss-type designs on other former Soviet satellites, Iran and its nuclear ambitions,...