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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2011 42 Comments
A blog post by one of the students in Jeff Cohen’s Independent Media class at Ithaca College, to which I linked this morning, has led The Lonely Conservative to argue that my comment moderation policy contributes to the content of the blog: Since Professor Jacobson’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2011 8 Comments
I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest speaker at the Independent Media class taught by Jeff Cohen at Ithaca College.  One of the students posted about it: “My independent media professor invited William A. Jacobson, creator of conservative blog “Legal Insurrection,” to our class...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 9 Comments
Obama announced via Twitter that his grassroots campaign will start today, on the eve of his nationwide tour of big money donors so that he can become the first billion-dollar candidate in the history of this country (sorry, that last part wasn’t in the announcement). The Obama...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 01, 2011 0 Comments
Kathleen The Cornell Review began the week after Spring Break with esteemed Cornell alum, Keith Olbermann, stomping on a copy of February’s publication and calling most conservatives stupid. So while the week started rough, today the Review team distributed a parody of our resident lefty-newspaper,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 7 Comments
That’s the headline you will not see.  Instead, you will see this headline:  “Obama Approval Ratings On The Rise Among Millennials, Especially on College Campuses, Harvard Poll Finds.” And this headline: Obama Job Approval Rises Among Young Voters: Millennials More Likely To Vote Obama Than...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 14, 2011 10 Comments
I was in New York over the weekend. Just as I had forgotten how polemic and distasteful Manhattan mini-storage ads were, I saw this gem on the West Side Highway. (I was in the passengers seat, no lefty or righty was hurt in the taking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 9 Comments
This is the first in a series GUEST POSTS by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion, and quantitative and experimental approaches to political science. ____________________ Analyzing polls with only what polling companies release is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2011 8 Comments
Democrat David Cicilline was Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, for 8 years, replacing the colorful and convicted Mayor Buddy Cianci.  Cicilline was elected in November to Congress in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District (my home district), for the open seat vacated by Patrick Kennedy. Cicilline is an openly gay...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2011 19 Comments
As I have documented here many times, one does not need to question Barack Obama’s birthplace or citizenship to be called a “birther.” “Birther” simply is the new “racist,” an epithet thrown around at anyone who questions — or in the case of Mike Huckabee failed to accurately state —...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
… “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah” It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 5 Comments
K. McCaffrey — I am super jealous of everyone who will be at CPAC today. I have to wait until tomorrow to attend (a cost-benefit analysis of the cost of college per credit hour leaves me no choice), but those who are there today will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 17 Comments
The New York Times reports on the inconsistency of how various government agencies count the races: The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins — a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent — as “Hispanic.” But the National...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 3 Comments
Via And So It Goes In Shreveport comes news of the death of “snaggletoothie” and a link to a loving memory by his father, My son Christopher David Monson aka snaggletoothie: “Chris was born on April 1, 1948. He passed away on January 28, 2011....

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments
This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 25, 2011 15 Comments
Peter Thiel has been making a splash lately by calling higher education “the next bubble.” In a fairly recent Wall Street Journal article, he went as far as to say “Liberals […] blame our education system, but liberals are the last ones to fix it,...
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