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Antisemitism and the Radical Anti-Israel Movement on U.S. Campuses, 2019
Anti-Israel rhetoric on campus can become antisemitic when it demonizes Zionism, thereby implicitly demonizing many American Jews.
Boys let black widow bite them in hopes of turning into Spider-Man
Three young Bolivian brothers were hospitalized after getting a black widow spider to bite them — thinking it would turn them into Spider-Man, according to officials. The Marvel-loving siblin…
David Bernstein
The article doesn't tell us if it worked.
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Purported Northern Michigan boat launch request fuels controversy for Whitmer
The owner of a Northern Michigan dock company said the governor's husband wanted his boat placed in the water before Memorial Day weekend
The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading
"We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country," says a top former economic adviser to Obama.
The Legal Academy with Orin Kerr, Episode 2: Jamal Greene
This is the second episode of The Legal Academy, a new show about law professors hosted by Professor Orin Kerr of UC Berkeley Law School. The guest is Jamal ...
Robert E. Lee Becomes Roberto Eduardo Leon: An Affirmative Action Controversy from 1979
From People Magazine, April 17, 1979: Anyone saddled with a name as fraught with history as Robert E. Lee might
David Bernstein
Robert E. Lee Becomes Roberto Eduardo Leon: An Affirmative Action Controversy from 1979 reason.com/2020/05/25/rob… via @reason
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How Many Years of Life Does the Average Covid-19 Victim Lose?
An exchange with the lead author of a study.
David Bernstein
How Many Years of Life Does the Average Covid-19 Victim Lose? reason.com/2020/05/25/how… via @reason
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Follow the Money: Employers Are Behind the Rush to Reopen
The federal government squandered the time the states spent in lockdown. We still face a national shortage of COVID-19 test kits and PPE and there is no nationwide testing or contact tracing program. The United States has 4 percent of the world’s...
David Bernstein
Actually, "the wealthy" haven't been especially hurt by the shutdown, b/c most of their money is in stocks and bonds, and the Federal Reserve has intentionally caused massive inflation in the prices of both.
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In Quds Day speech, Nasrallah says Jews must leave Israel
'Palestine from the river to the sea is the property of the Palestinian people and they shall return to it,' says Hezbollah leader, adding that America is the 'real enemy'
David Bernstein
A guy who is afraid to come out of his underground bunker isn't in much of a position to demand anything from Israel.
timesofisrael.com/in-quds-day-sp… via @timesofisrael
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Law professor falsely accused of rape, wins defamation case
A University of Minnesota Law School professor, Francesco Parisi, has won a nearly $1.2 million defamation case against a woman who had falsely accused him of rape.
Jerry Falwell Jr., COVID-19 and the Insufferables | Bacon's Rebellion
David Bernstein
It turns out that Liberty University did not become a Covid-19 hotspot, or even close. Funny how no one who excoriated the university for opening has followed up (much less apologized).
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GDPNow
Provides a "nowcast" of the official GDP growth estimate prior to its first release.
David Bernstein
Fed Atlanta: "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2020 is -42.8 percent on May 15."
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The Nursing Home Crisis Was Inevitable
After decades of mistreatment, older Americans are bearing the worst of the pandemic.
David Bernstein
It's extremely expensive to provide 24/7 care. Suggestion: Instead of expensive and largely pointless trips to build playgrounds or whatnot in Guatemala, teens and college students looking for "service" be encouraged to volunteer in nursing homes.
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California Defines Testing Down
Ignoring faculty, the UC president wants to drop the SAT and ACT.
Barack Obama Pummels Unnamed Donald Trump Over “Why Things Are So Screwed Up” In ‘Graduate Together’ Commencement Speech
President Barack Obama never mentioned Donald Trump in his virtual Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 commencement speech tonight, but it was clear to everyone in coron…
David Bernstein
Noting the “usual pressures of growing up,” Obama told the grads watching “not to be afraid” and that they “could make things better” if they were “part of the solution, instead of part of the problem.” Obama remains the master of platitude.
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
David Bernstein
This is one of a series of recent articles extolling the New Deal. What they all have in common is ignoring the 2 most important New Deal initiatives, the AAA and the NIRA, both considered failures at the time, and both invalidated as unconstitutional.
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The Irony of ‘The Plot Against America’
From the blog of David E. Bernstein at The Times of Israel
David Bernstein
The Irony of ‘The Plot Against America’: The book imagines Pres. Charles Linbergh dispersing Jews to the hinterlands, but FDR was the one who actually favored that.
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Super Trump song סופר טראמפ
the band Pirchei Yerushalayim (the Jerusalem flowers) in "this morning in the world" TV show, with the hosts Avri and Hila record date 21.06.2019 להקת פרחי י...
Is Supporting Academic Boycotts of Israel Consistent with Administering an Academic Program?
No, such individuals are pledged to violate university policy, civil rights laws, and academic freedom.
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David Bernstein
Is Supporting Academic Boycotts of Israel Consistent with Administering an Academic Program? reason.com/2020/05/12/is-… via @reason
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"The Modern American Law of Race"
My article explores how the standard racial category boxes that we are asked to check came to be, and what proof the government requires of belonging to a minority group.