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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 40 Comments

Another fabricated hate crime, this time by a gay man who claimed to have been beaten outside a bar. Via NY Daily News: A 22-year-old Montana man who told cops he was beaten up by gay-bashing thugs  while club-hopping on his birthday — igniting calls online for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2012 55 Comments

Ted Cruz won a stunning victory tonight. Twitter was abuzz. But one Tweet with a photo seemed to capture the night. Cruz has Chick-Fil-A at victory party #txrunoff #txsen instagr.am/p/NxCunHAvz9/ — Jane Cummins (@janecummins) August 1, 2012 Tea-partier Cruz has Chick-Fil-A at victory party in the #txrunoff instagr.am/p/NxCunHAvz9/ (In case...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2012 64 Comments

We've seen the Mayors of Boston and Chicago abuse their power to drive a lawful business out of their jurisdictions by threatening to withhold business permits because the founder and President support the definition of marriage as one man - one woman. When those threats generated an outcry even...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2012 47 Comments

Fortunately, I missed most of the Olympics opening ceremony. Reader Matt sent this link to the BBC with the request "Please tell me this will get a post!!: AP also is running this photo and explanation: Actors lying on beds meant to represent Britain's National Health Service (NHS)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2012 67 Comments

After Sarah and Todd Palin attended a rally for Ted Cruz in Texas yesterday, they stopped by a Chick-fil-A. Palin posted photos on her Facebook page and also sent out tweets about the visit (h/t Charles). Stopped by Chick-fil-A in The Woodlands to support a great business....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2012 61 Comments

First it was the Mayor of Boston who announced his intention to block business permits for Chick-fil-A not because there is any evidence that it discriminates in employment or services, but because its founder and his son (now the President) support keeping the definition of marriage as one man -...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2012 111 Comments

A lot, according to Hans Bader, who sees a coming quota system in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math enrollment: Quotas limiting the number of male students in science may be imposed by the Education Department in 2013. The White House has promised that “new guidelines will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 6 Comments

From friend of the blog Bill Dyszel who has brought us such classics as Mercurial Redemption, An Eco-Maniacal Opera and The Blagojevich Polka. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 42 Comments

No one could have seen this coming.  This could be the moment when Obama's campaign stopped receding. Sandra Fluke endorses Obama in an op-ed at CNN.com (because MSNBC.com was not available): Obama is committed to rebuilding our economy upon the values of fairness and opportunity and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2012 69 Comments

Not a JDate ad, a new "minority classification" at the City University of New York, and some who prefer to stick with preexisting minority classifications are not happy: Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have  broken out Jews into a separate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2012 25 Comments

Don't say I haven't been warning you. While the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh has been only marginally effective, Color of Change has had more success getting major companies to drop their participation in the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) by falsely tying ALEC's support of "stand your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 43 Comments

I have warned you about the total war, in which petitions and boycotts and other pressure tactics are used to silence conservative voices. There is no better example than a case reported in the NY Post via National Review (h/t Jonah Goldberg) about a blogger at The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 12 Comments

Kay Hymowitz:  Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit): One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every dollar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 47 Comments

We live in a world where groups like Media Matters and Think Progress monitor and record every word uttered by any conservative of prominence in the media, hoping to find something "insensitive" with which to mount a campaign to silence the speaker through intimidation of advertisers. So...