Author: Mike LaChance

Mike LaChance

Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.

Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Daily Caller, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet.

Mike is a Generation X, New England lifer who describes his political views as conservative and libertarian.

You can find him on Twitter @MikeLaChance33

Kevin McCarthy Still Short Votes for Speaker, Vote Takes Place at Noon ET

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 03, 2023 34 Comments

"I think it is a remarkably shortsighted and, candidly, selfish position, and I don't understand where they're coming from. McCarthy has agreed to every policy they've asked for."...

“Gender ideology is an attack on language, truth, and logic”

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 03, 2023 3 Comments

"If the identity politics totalitarians prevail, the disastrous paradigm of 'might is right' will become the new unspoken foundation for western values."...

Video Recommendation: The John Stossel Interview of Megyn Kelly is Fascinating

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 02, 2023 23 Comments

Kelly doesn't hold back and reveals all kinds of inside baseball on the intersection of politics and media....

Suspect in University of Idaho Murders Allegedly Stalked Victims

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 02, 2023 12 Comments

"stalked his alleged victims before the November murders and wore gloves in a supermarket weeks afterwards"...

California College Students Can Get Up to $10,000 for Climate Change Activism

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 02, 2023 5 Comments

"students will be earning $22 an hour, $6.60 more per hour than California’s minimum wage"...

Imperial College London Urges Students to Have ‘Hard Conversations’ With Friends and Family Who Deny White Privilege

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2023 10 Comments

"If you have friends or family who take a different stance on these issues, now is the time to have a hard conversation with them and ask them to rethink their views."...

Nancy Pelosi Raises Maximum Pay for House Staffers on Her Way Out the Door

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2023 23 Comments

"issued a new directive raising the maximum rate that lawmakers can pay House staff to $212,100 annually — $38,000 more than what members of Congress make"...

West Point To Remove Robert E. Lee Portrait and Other Confederate Artifacts

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2023 12 Comments

"Lee served as West Point superintendent for several years prior to the Civil War."...

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Democrat Hypocrisy on Display Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2023 4 Comments

All the news you may have missed....

Yale ‘Happiness Prof’ Warns That Capitalism is Destroying Students With Anxiety

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2022 12 Comments

"There’s an enormous culture around us of capitalism that’s telling us to buy things and a hustle-achievement culture that destroys my students in terms of anxiety" ...

Mike LaChance’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2022 8 Comments

What a wild year....

Democrats May Regret Releasing Trump’s Taxes

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2022 111 Comments

"While a majority of voters are OK with House Ways and Means Committee Democrats releasing former President Donald Trump’s federal income taxes, they also feel that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander."...