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Good people opposing academic boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2013 7 Comments

Mob rule now determines academic freedom.

Does American Studies Association have guts to boycott Cornell too?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2013 15 Comments

Perhaps it's time for a "boycott me too" movement to counter anti-Israel academic boycotts.

Tenured radicals cannot be trusted with our academic freedom

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2013 14 Comments

Academic supporters of the Israel boycott should understand that what goes around comes around.

Maybe it’s time to reconsider the tax-exempt status of academic boycotters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2013 12 Comments

The American Studies Association can boycott Israel all it wants, but it should do so on its own dime

American Studies Association leadership recommends academic boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2013 17 Comments

Will they now boycott universities in Islamic countries that discriminate against Jews and Christians, women, and gays?

A Thanksgiving Weather Forecast, Global Warming Style

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 24, 2013 9 Comments

Americans planning to travel around the East Coast this Thanksgiving are in for a real weather treat: A nor’easter is swirling together and it could hit the east coast just in time for Thanksgiving, Quartz reports. The storm looks like it will stretch from New...

Iran Embassy attacked in Beirut

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2013 7 Comments

There was a double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian Embassy in Beirut earlier today. There are at least 25 dead, including one diplomat. An al-Qaeda linked group is claiming credit, but the Iranians are blaming Israel. The bobming is assumed to be in retaliation for...

Israel Haters and Hezbollah at the University of Washington

Posted by 0387erp on November 13, 2013 9 Comments

While life goes on as usual in the caffeinated city, a concentrated and vicious strain of Israel hatred has taken root at the center of Washington State’s flagship University.

The Affordable Clunkcare Act

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2013 23 Comments

Hey, remember Cash for Clunkers? We sure do, we wrote about it frequently and predicted negative unintended consequences: We Are All Car Buyers Now Cash for Clunkers Driving Up Prices Cash For Clunkers Rear Ends Rhode Islanders “I Didn’t Buy A Clunker, But I’m Paying...

Alleged hacker charged over infiltration of US govt computer systems

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 28, 2013 7 Comments

A UK man has been charged in connection with hacking into multiple US government computer systems, causing personal data of US military personnel to be compromised and millions of dollars in losses, according to US Attorney Paul Fishman in NJ. From Reuters: A British man...

We Stand With Ezra

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2013 13 Comments

We’ve written before about the travails of the Canadian Blazing Cat Fur blog against laware utilizing Canadian “hate” laws. Now Ezra Levant, another Canadian blogger and outspoken critic of radical Islamic tactics in Canada, is fighting in court over a lawsuit filed several years ago, as...

More Building Materials for Gaza = More Terror Tunnels For Hamas

Posted by David Gerstman on October 13, 2013 8 Comments

When you read the first few news dispatches below from the past year and a half, keep this photo in mind. Aid Groups and U.N. Agencies Urge Israel to Lift Gaza Blockade – The Associated Press – June 14, 2012 Fifty international aid groups and United Nations agencies...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens federal lands minutes before North Dakota to file federal suit

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2013 13 Comments

This is a pretty good example of how the federal government went out of its way to make life difficult by shutting federal lands it never did anything to staff full time in the first place. North Dakota threatened to sue, and just minutes before...

Battle of the Barrycades – Vets storm Vietnam Memorial, U.S Park Police called in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2013 106 Comments

The barrycades at the WWII Memorial and Lincoln Memorial have received most of the attention. But on Friday a group of Vets decided to storm the barrycades erected by the Obama administration at the Vietnam Memorial, as reported by the local NBC News station (via The...

California passes new fracking rules that leave everyone unsatisfied

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 2 Comments

In a move that is apt to stun the California-critics among Legal Insurrection readers, our state legislature passed a pro-fracking measure: Oil and gas drillers that use a technique known as fracking would face new rules in California under legislation that was sent to governor...

John Kerry’s most worrisome testimony: Thomas Friedman “most often correct”

Posted by David Gerstman on September 09, 2013 16 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 09/09/2013 - Friedman has made a career of being wrong.

Hamas targeted Mamilla Mall because it symbolizes co-existence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2013 26 Comments

While in Jerusalem I stayed at the Mamilla Hotel, just above the open-air Mamilla Mall, near the Jaffa Gate to the Old City. What struck me about it was how Arabs and Jews intermingled freely — it was a very mixed crowd and a seeming...

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