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American Studies Assoc pulls Institutional Membership list from Quarterly Publication

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2014 0 Comments

Also, ASA's new individual membership numbers may not be what they seem.

Before Brendan Eich, they came for the Mormons

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2014 25 Comments

The template was drawn in November 2008, and unleashed when Obama evolved.

Obamacare Dials Another Wrong Number

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 03, 2014 1 Comment

While President Obama was doing a “victory lap” over the truly questionable healthcare exchange enrollment numbers, the deaf citizens of California were being directed to a sex hotline by the Covered California website: Auburn resident Jeff Brown was one who went on the Covered California...

After months of scandal, Maryland to scrap $125.5 million state health exchange

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 29, 2014 12 Comments

After being repeatedly warned for months, Maryland officials will finally terminate the dysfunctional site

2014 – Year of the Microaggression

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

Saturday Night Card Game - Everybody must get microaggressed

Will Scotland’s independence referendum end the United Kingdom?

Posted by Laurel Conrad on March 17, 2014 26 Comments

Things fall apart.

Sen. Feinstein changes course on California’s water problems

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 16, 2014 14 Comments

It looks like the special election earthquake that shook FL-13, sending Republican David Jolly to Washington D.C., may be being felt in other ways in the land of real earthquakes — California. I recently covered the severe drought that is impacting the Golden State, which...

#BeBossy: We’re in this mess because Hillary wasn’t in 2008

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 15, 2014 34 Comments

When I first heard about the #BanBossy movement, a movement that is backed by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and The Girl Scouts, I was incredulous. First progressives emasculate America’s men; now, they are emasculating its women! Professor Jacobson was right to be concerned about the tendency...

Reactions to the Earthquake in #FL13

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2014 18 Comments

Is it January 2010 all over again, when Scott Brown's anti-Obamacare victory portended huge Republican gains in November?

Debate: “Affirmative action on campus does more harm than good”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2014 18 Comments

What if affirmative action actually hurts minorities?

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Dunn Juror Speaks: State’s Failure to Disprove Self-Defense Hung Murder Conviction

Posted by Andrew Branca on February 19, 2014 113 Comments

A juror from the “loud music” murder trial of Michael Dunn for the shooting death of Jordan Davis became the first to speak with the press, on this evening’s episode of Nightline. (Video of this interview is embedded at the bottom of this post.) The...