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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2012 10 Comments
Signs are popping up all over. From reader Angie: This is not a bumper sticker, but traveling along the coast in southern OREGON, we came upon this rather large sign. The small town seemed to be struggling. Maybe there’s hope. Follow up email from Angie:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2012 12 Comments
Any excuse for the link. I’m getting an increasing number of bumper stickers from suprised Californians. From reader Georgette, who writes: Even in California!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2012 64 Comments
A reader alerted me to Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter, a blog run by Twila Barnes, devoted to documenting Cherokee genealogy and countering fraudulent claims of Cherokee heritage: I am the wife of a career soldier and the mother of four. I am registered with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and, like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2012 27 Comments
There is an active effort by Elizabeth Warren’s campaign to distract from the real issue regarding Warren’s claim of Native American status during the mid-80s to mid-90s, when she was moving from one law school to another up the food chain until she reached Harvard...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 27 Comments
The Elizabeth Warren story is not about whether she is 1/32nd Cherokee. Questions persist as to why Warren listed herself as Native American, a fact as to which she had no proof until yesterday, only in a publication almost exclusively used by other law professors and Deans during a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2012 18 Comments
There is a war on women, but they will not talk about it in the media, academia, or in politics (h/t HotAir): So: Yes, women all over the world have problems; yes, the United States has yet to elect a female president; and yes, women...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 29 Comments
I’d rather sit in the dark. That’s my sense of today: Secret Service agent scandal gets worse with allegations of cocaine use, and here is a headline which tells us this drama will play out for a while: Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent. Image...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 20 Comments
That’s the Good News. The Bad News – It’s a list of The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech In 2012 from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Widener joins such elite institutions of higher learning as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brandeis and Tufts. Here’s the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2012 75 Comments
Kohler, based in Wisconsin, has joined the Rush Limbaugh boycott, according to tweets it sent out yesterday from its Twitter account, @Kohler: It is not clear that Kohler actually ever advertised on the Limbaugh show, almost certainly not nationally.  This may be another of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2012 44 Comments
Newt Gringrich appeared at Tulane University yesterday the day before the primary.  The overflow crowd necessitated that speakers be set up outside the lecture hall so those who could not get in could hear the speech. When a professor complained, the volume was lowered, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 16 Comments
When Dennis Kucinich lost his primary in a new district which required him to compete against an incumbent, I was disappointed. We need a Dennis Kucinich, someone by whom others can be measured — vertically, psychologically, dentally, and bumperstically. Run in Washington State, Dennis, Run: Rep....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 22 Comments
Via Jazz Shaw, NY redistricting is finalized and Ithaca — part of retiring Maurice Hinchey’s district which disappeared — now is part of the district of Republican Congressman Tom Reed (campaign website).  I don’t know a lot about Tom, but I’ll be finding out for sure,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2012 42 Comments
Tolerance.  The concept could be a bumper sticker. But if so, it would not be welcome on the campus of Northeastern University, which just banned Chick-fil-A from campus. From The Boston Glove via TaxProf (h/t Instapundit): Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2012 133 Comments
Endgame assessment: Very good night for Romney, he has all but beaten back the Santorum surge.  It’s hard to know if outspending Santorum did the trick; Romney spent only about 1/3 going after Santorum in Michigan as he spent going after Newt in Florida, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2012 18 Comments
It’s days like this when I particularly appreciate reader tips: The Dersh: The odious ‘Israel first’ libel. (h/t jimzinsocal in Tip Line) Rape, They Cried. Hundreds  of threats for assault victim in case dismissed by Quran-minded judge. Here Comes Obama’s 3 AM Phone Call.  And,...
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