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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 10 Comments
The worldwide Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel has mostly been a failure in the U.S., but that does not stop brainwashed youth brigades from trying to delegitimze Israel anyway. Via IsraellyCool comes this video posted by the Philadelphia wing of the BDS movement, trying stop a supermarket chain from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 10 Comments
I posted earlier today about a study by Cornell Professors Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci finding that career and other choices, not discrimination, are the best explanations for the currently low levels of female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Profs. Williams and Ceci...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 8 Comments
The situation in Egypt does not look dire at this moment, but it does look very serious.  Given the speed with which events can move, the situation could change dramatically for the worse in hours or days. Pursuant to the 1979 peace treaty between Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 47 Comments
I was going to write a post about Dana Milbank’s attention-seeking column in The Washington Post about how he supposedly is going to stop writing about or even talking about Sarah Palin for the month of February.  The Milbank column really is a window into the mind of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2010 7 Comments
Here are Legal Insurrection’s Official predictions for 2011: Obama will give an unscripted speech announcing he is resigning to take a year-long road trip to play golf in each of the 57 states. Joe Biden, the second in line to the presidency, will become President upon Obama’s resignation,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 6 Comments
I’m trying really, really hard not to take the bait.  I promised you I would be better next time. At least I’ve recognized that I have a problem, which is the first step, right? You see, the thing is, I just enjoy it too much,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2010 18 Comments
The Daily Caller (h/t Instapundit) has an interesting post today on the push back by Tea Party supporters against corporations — particularly in the pharmaceutical industry — which cooperated and cut deals with the Obama administration to help pass Obamacare.  The Washington Post had a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2010 6 Comments
There are many stories to tell about this election cycle, but one group of bloggers deserves special credit. In May 2009, a group of bloggers started a blog called Not One Red Cent in reaction to the attempt by the National Republican Senatorial Committee to anoint...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2010 5 Comments
Those anti-pot folks are really just anti-gay bigots anyway, via AlterNet: “Predictably, the anti-pot forces have brought everything they have — mostly hyperbole, in other words — to the battle. To hear them tell it, California’s very future is at stake, and not only that but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 2 Comments
A post at Israel Matzav about a failed attempt at a university in South Africa to boycott Israel’s Ben Gurion University reminded me that there has been a vicious war underway, albeit one fought mostly under the media radar. The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, which brought you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 3 Comments
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is an association, er, of American law schools.  The AALS annual meeting, which is held early in January, is a big event in the law professor community. I first posted about the AALS annual meeting back in November 2008, when some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 6 Comments
I can’t believe they actually polled this: It appears a majority of New Jersey residents agree with Gov. Chris Christie: The hit MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” is doing more harm than good to the Garden State. According to the new poll from Quinnipiac University,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2010 19 Comments
This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel. Leftists who, among other things, claim to believe in freedom of speech, women’s rights and equality for gays, are in political bed with people who would cut...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments
You can run, but it’s too late to hide anymore: President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 8 Comments
The bullying by Congressional committees of various unpopular industries has taken on warp speed. But in a very disturbing new tactic, Congressional Democrats specifically are targeting a sponsor of conservative media shows, particularly the Glenn Beck Show, on a flimsy pretext: Forget Goldman. New York...
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