The newly drafted Islamist-backed constitution in Egypt appears to be on the path to approval, but that is doing little to quell the sustained feeling of instability in the country.
Passage is a victory for Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, but a costly one. The bruising battle over the past month stripped away...
Via Fox News:
A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office – in the months leading up to the deadly Sept. 11 attack.
Deputy Secretary of State...
Fiscal cliff?
Well that last one might have the post office stumped. A failure to reach a compromise this year just might have big implications for the struggling United States Postal Service.
It’s possible that the nearly $20 billion in savings could be part of a fiscal cliff deal. Sen. Joseph Lieberman has...
In the days after I reported here on the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, the gun control debate has raged.
The first gun control argument was leveled, quite literally, before the deceased children and adults were even removed from the school. Indeed, in laying the groundwork for his public policy push to...
Can you blame him?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year’s gubernatorial race and will instead explore a run for U.S. Senate in 2014.
Booker, in a video posted to his YouTube page Thursday, said he would finish his...
As of this past Saturday, I’ve been contributing to Legal Insurrection for one year. The experience has been a truly gratifying one, and I’m very appreciative to have been given the opportunity to do so.
I’ve had the pleasure of writing nearly 100 posts for LI over the past year and in...
As the fighting in Syria continues to rage, the United States and NATO have reportedly ordered the deployment of two Patriot missile batteries and 400 American troops to Turkey. The small force could be there as soon as mid-January.
The missiles and troops will be under...
UPDATE (6:13): Shooter identified as the
son of a teacher from the school. Motive for the rampage
is still unknown. Via Fox News:
The shooter, who sources identified as Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother in the face at their home in Newtown, Conn., then went to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School where...
The most recent spate of news coverage centering around unions came earlier this week in Michigan, where thousands of union members gathered outside the capitol in Lansing to protest passage of Michigan right to work laws.
Most have doubtless seen coverage from that day showing union members repeatedly tearing down an Americans...
President Obama may have secured reelection from the American people, but that doesn’t mean that they support his view that the federal government should have its hand in ensuring that all of its citizens have health insurance.
The Gallup poll indicates 54% of Americans believe...
Mohammed Morsi, Egypts recently elected President who was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood following the overthrow Hosni Mubarak, has fallen out of favor with some in his country after some questionable governmental actions.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has issued an order preventing any court from overturning his decisions, essentially allowing him to...
While on a trip to Iowa for the Governor’s 66th birthday, Marco Rubio touched on something very subtle, yet very profound.
“The way to turn our economy around is not by...
In the last remaining Operation Counterweight race to be decided, Republican challenger David Rouzer trails incumbent Mike McIntyre by the narrowest of margins.
Of the more than 300,000 votes cast in North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, McIntyre leads Rouzer by just 655 votes.
The Rouzer campaign released the following statement.
Considering this is the...
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UPDATE 5:40 p.m. — Various news reports confirm that the partial recount (which was only of early votes in St. Lucie Co., a small percentage of the total vote) did give Murphy a slightly larger lead. But West’s campaign is not giving up, Allen West Camp to Contest...
Although the Florida courts have denied Allen West’s petition for a recount in his district’s Congressional race, he may be getting one anyway thanks to a decision by the St. Lucie County Canvassing Board to retabulate all early voting ballots in FL-18.
The decision came late last night after the canvassing board met...
