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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2013 31 Comments
I have been following various faculty reactions to the Ray Kelly shout-down, including from Political Science Professor Marion Orr who apologized for inviting Kelly, and Biology Professor Ken Miller who issued a forceful denunciation of the shout-down. So when I saw an article in The...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on November 03, 2013 2 Comments
The Extra Life website reportedly fell victim to a denial of service attack on Saturday, according to a post on the charity organization’s Facebook page. Extra Life is associated with the Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals.  What started out in the Sarcastic Gamer community a...

Posted by New Neo on November 02, 2013 19 Comments
Bill Clinton deceived the American people in a flagrant manner when he said, shaking his finger: Whatever narrow legal definition Clinton had used in his deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit, virtually no one listening to what he said in that clip would think he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2013 19 Comments
The IRS Scandal is alive and kicking.  Although it is being drowned out of media attention by the Obamacare and Benghazi scandals. Two important revelations this week related to the targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. First, Lois Lerner has been caught feeding confidential...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2013 38 Comments
"especially to my black students and Latino brothers and sisters." Also, asked for list of who not to invite in future, but says was "tongue in cheek" request.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2013 46 Comments
Jenny Li is a Brown University student, a fellow at the People for the American Way Foundation, helps run Brown Asian Sisters Empowered, and is an environmental activist who is Executive Director of the Brown emPower environmental group: She’s also someone who was proud to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2013 29 Comments
In our two prior posts, we explained how NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down at Brown University by protesters against NYC’s stop and frisk policy: Brown U. students shout down Ray Kelly Brown U. student called “White Supremacist” for wanting to hear Ray...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 30, 2013 8 Comments
More is coming to light in recent days and weeks to suggest that concerns about potential security issues with the healthcare.gov website may be justified. In an article today from CNN, it was revealed that lack of testing of healthcare.gov presented a security risk, according...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2013 17 Comments
If only it were that benign. What probably will be the most viral moment from the Sebelius hearing this morning: And The Only Obamacare/Sebelius GIF You’ll Ever Need, from our friend Steve Gutkowski:

Posted by Hans Bader on October 29, 2013 17 Comments
Obamacare contains many racial preferences. But that fact has drawn remarkably little attention, even though the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded back in 2009 that the healthcare bill was racially discriminatory, in two ways. First, Obamacare is filled with “sections that factor in race when awarding billions in contracts,...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 29, 2013 23 Comments
Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will testify Tuesday morning before the House Ways and Means Committee about the administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act. A livestream of the hearing will be available at C-SPAN when the hearing...
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