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Reader crowdsourcing project to fight American Studies Assoc anti-Israel boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2013 77 Comments

Reader-created contact list and call to action.

How can these U.S. universities justify membership in American Studies Association after Israel boycott?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2013 16 Comments

The anti-Israel academic boycott passed by ASA makes each of these universities complicit.

ASA issues member talking points to counter university pushback over Israel boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2013 23 Comments

American Studies Association coaches members how to defend ASA academic boycott against criticism by Deans, Administrators and Faculty.

Cartoon politics really is what happens in Obama’s America

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2013 8 Comments

Everything is political. And the race card is an integral part of those politics.

NY-23 Dem candidate goes silent on website hacking probe

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2013 12 Comments

Martha Robertson promised to hire a computer forensic firm to justify her fundraising claim that GOP operatives hacked her website.

American Studies Association leadership recommends academic boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2013 17 Comments

Will they now boycott universities in Islamic countries that discriminate against Jews and Christians, women, and gays?

Harvard Survey: Obama and Obamacare push Millennials support off cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2013 16 Comments

47% of Millennials would vote to recall Obama versus 46% who would not.

Happy Thanksgiving from the LI Intern

Posted by Laurel Conrad on November 28, 2013 10 Comments

After a long bus ride from Cornell back to Virginia yesterday, I get the rare chance today to escape the campus lefties and spend some quality time with my family. And while it’s easy to fixate on scary things like the job market I’m about...

Israel Haters and Hezbollah at the University of Washington

Posted by 0387erp on November 13, 2013 9 Comments

While life goes on as usual in the caffeinated city, a concentrated and vicious strain of Israel hatred has taken root at the center of Washington State’s flagship University.

Not just Brown: The long history of liberal and anti-Israel campus shout downs

Posted by Laurel Conrad on November 10, 2013 9 Comments

In October, Brown University protesters prevented New York City Police Chief Ray Kelly from speaking. During Kelly’s talk, titled “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City,” protesters loudly chanted slogans and read prepared text, drowning out Kelly. A university administrator tried to reason with the protesters,...

The radical anti-Zionist Left

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2013 8 Comments

NGO Monitor keeps watch on anti-Israeli non-governmental organizations, and provides valuable research contesting many of the outlandish claims made by these mostly left-wing groups financed by European governments. The NGOs, some of which are staffed by Israeli leftists, subject Israel to a microscope no society...

Repeal of “Stand-Your-Ground” voted down in Florida House Committee

Posted by Andrew Branca on November 08, 2013 15 Comments

Last evening the Florida House conducted a public hearing, judiciary committee debate, and committee vote on HB-4003, which would have done away with Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law by repealing Florida statute 776.013. Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm. The...

5 years of blogging down the drain

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...

Visualizing the 15 million people who will lose their current individual health plans

Posted by Laurel Conrad on November 05, 2013 27 Comments

Last week, White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted that Obamacare would force around 15 million people – 5% of the US population – to drop their current insurance. This number doesn’t seem like a big deal to him, however: “That’s the universe we’re talking about,...

Congrats America, you are subsidizing health insurance for Ivy League Ph.D’s who choose to paint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2013 64 Comments

Hey, remember when Nancy Pelosi triumphantly predicted that Obamacare would allow artists to have health insurance without worrying about their day jobs? Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day...

Brown U. faculty supporter of anti-Ray Kelly protest also anti-Israel zealot

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...

Brown Prof recalls when a real fascist came to campus, calls Ray Kelly shout down “a shameful day”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2013 52 Comments

Brown U. Prof. to Kelly protesters: "Yours was an act of cowardice and fear, unworthy of any of the causes you claim to hold dear"

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