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September 2012

Posted by Joel Engel on September 13, 2012 52 Comments

Four “senior Obama Administration officials” held a press briefing yesterday regarding the attacks in Libya and Egypt.  For reasons we can only divine, they remain unnamed in the official transcript. Near the end, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston asked “whether there was any specific recent intelligence indicating that...

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 13, 2012 15 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 29 Comments

And who knows, maybe it was: "A former very senior Republican insider, who requested anonymity so that he could speak freely, told us that he has serious doubts as to Mitt Romney's precipitous decision to criticize the President, and that Romney's actions were his 'Lehman moment'...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 17 Comments

I'm very pleased to welcome long-time reader and commenter (CassandraLite) Joel Engel as a contributor at Legal Insurrection. I've met Joel twice, and one thing led to another, and here we are. You may have noticed Joel's first post earlier today, 2016 May Bring Good Things.  I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 10 Comments

I just want to know how to plan out the next few weeks. Via Boston Globe: Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — amid growing unrest from party activists and leaders — is facing pressure to make a major shift in her television advertising with a new series...

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 12, 2012 37 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 2 Comments

Each day this week we will focus on one of the Upstate New York races included in Operation Counterweight. As mentioned before, Upstate NY is critical to holding the House, as several seats were gained by Republicans in an otherwise blue state in 2010....

Posted by Joel Engel on September 12, 2012 33 Comments

This is the first post from new Legal Insurrection contributor Joel Engel -------------------------------- Early today, Professor Jacobson posted again about the movie 2016: Obama’s America, vis-à-vis producer Dinesh D’Souza’s response to reader criticisms, and concluded: There’s something to that film which has touched a nerve, and not in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 13 Comments

Stanley Fish in The New York Times prints Dinesh D'Souza's responses to reader criticisms of the film 2016: Obama's America.  (My review here.) It is an excellent read, as D'Souza eviscerates the criticisms in a very methodical and polite way. But what I loved the most was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 84 Comments

Multiple news agencies are reporting that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three others were killed in a rocket attack on their vehicle (although reports as to where he was at the time conflict).  The State Department has not confirmed as of this writing.  (Update...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 4 Comments

So you better defeat him, or he'll keep that promise from 2008 to bankrupt you. From Patrick: Saw this one at a Home Depot in Marion, (Southern) Illinois. No, we are nothing like Chicago. Enjoy! ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2012 12 Comments

A poll by Kimball Political Consulting, apparently a Republican leaning entity, found that the Senate race has tightened. Whereas two weeks ago Brown was up by 6 (consistent with PPP finding Brown up by 5 with likely voters), now Brown is up by less than 1%. ...

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