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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2013 14 Comments
Hello?! I run this place.  Quote me, me, me! Patrick Maines, President of The Media Institute, writing in USA Today, quotes Legal Insurrection commenter Moonstone716 regarding the Brown shout down of Ray Kelly, Political divide hurts college free speech: As one commenter poignantly observed in...

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 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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2013 28 Comments
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, as our readers know, is a vile combination of leftists and Islamists joined together by hatred of Israel who hide behind false and exaggerated claims regarding the “occupation,” when the real goal is the destruction of Israel. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 22 Comments
In addition to the real shutdowns at the WWII Memorial and elsewhere, we can expect to see all sorts of non-shutdowns blamed on the federal government partial shutdown. I noticed this along a path in the Collegetown section of Ithaca, a path along the Gorge...

Posted by New Neo on October 01, 2013 17 Comments
A few days ago I used the term “barbarism” in reference to the Nairobi mall attack. An excellent article by Brendan O’Neill appeared today in the Telegraph making a similar point, and entitled “I’m sorry, but we have to talk about the barbarism of modern...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 27, 2013 45 Comments
Police said Thursday that six people have been arrested following the wild party last month at the vacant upstate New York home of ex-NFL player Brian Holloway – a party held without his consent.  The six are facing charges that range from criminal trespass and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2013 61 Comments
The deification of Trayvon Martin, with comparisons to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Emmitt Till, is just part of the false narrative of the prosecution of George Zimmerman. We are seeing a mythology grow and become embedded on campuses which misrepresents the factual and legal...

Posted by Laurel Conrad on September 22, 2013 6 Comments
As Professor Jacobson details in his companion post, the Matthew Shepard narrative of anti-gay hatred culminating in murder may not be what it seems. Research detailed in The Book of Matt by Stephen Jimenez casts doubt on the anti-gay part of the narrative. But by...
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