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October 2012

Posted by Anne Segal on October 31, 2012 25 Comments

Once again, we hear via Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr's wife Sandi that the AWOL representative from Illinois under investigation by the House Ethics Committee will remain in treatment even as the election approaches. According to his wife, Jackson will continue to stay at the Mayo Clinic,...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 31, 2012 6 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 6 days to go. Today’s first Empty Chair photo comes to us from Joy in Michigan who writes, "I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 39 Comments

The polling this year is insane.  Same state, same time period, wildly different results from poll to poll. Rasmussen has Romney up 2 in Wisconsin; Marquette has Obama up 8. The Boston Globe (UNH Polling) has Scott Brown up 2; Suffolk has Elizabeth Warren up...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 31, 2012 36 Comments

The United States is 13 percent black. The NBA is 75 percent black. But this year, the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves are “only” 30 percent black. Obviously, this is a civil-rights issue. Tyrone Terrell, chairman of St. Paul's African American leadership council, told the Star-Tribune that he thinks...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 7 Comments

More signage of the times. From Chris in Wisconsin: From Linda in Tennessee: Our neighbor a mile down the road posted this yard sign. I would caption it: "It's your Choice!". When I stopped, introduced myself and asked for permission to photo it, the owner told me he needed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 34 Comments

What is Chris Christie up to? It's one thing to acknowledge federal help, or that Obama was attentive (it is the week before the election, after all), but Christie is acting like a love-struck teenager, in other words, like America circa 2008. As tempting as it is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 6 Comments

David Cicilline, my current Congressman and former Mayor of Providence, has been a frequent topic here for the past two years, ever since he stole the 2010 congressional race by covering up and being "untruthful" (the Providence Journal's word) about the dismal state of Providence's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 22 Comments

Only a few more days of stonewalling and hurt feelings, and Obama may get away with it. If he's re-elected, it's too late to matter.  If he's not re-elected, it's too late to matter. Maybe this is a sign Benghazi is permeating the popular consciousness in time,...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 31, 2012 15 Comments

Our president did not make a turn to the right or even toward the center when he decided he wanted to remain in the White House another four years.  He ran as the leftist that he’s always been. So what do we make of his comments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2012 19 Comments

So that this person doesn't win. Rick took this photo in San Diego: ...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 30, 2012 8 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 7 days to go. With only a week to go, I thought I would ask LI readers about their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 19 Comments

The video below (h/t Hot Air) is getting a lot of exposure. It presents, in 16 seconds, religious freedom analogies. But it will make no impact with the Sandra Flukes of the world, who view free birth control as a human right. Someone has to be forced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 11 Comments

Mia Love is in a tight race in Utah-04 against Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson. While recent polling had Love slightly ahead, the race is expected to be close. As a Democrat in a majority Republican district, Matheson tries to keep quiet about his support of Obama.  Matheson...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 24 Comments

In the past two days two wildly differing polls have been released, one showing Scott Brown up 2, the other showing Elizabeth Warren up by 7. Polling from last week showed Warren ahead by 5. AP via Boston Globe reports: A new poll is giving an edge...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 22 Comments

Obama wants to create a Department of Business in his second term. So what might an Obama Business District look like? From a reader: After a day of fun and frolic in St. Louis we drove back to Illinois to discover East St. Louis has renamed its BUSINESS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 10 Comments

Obama won Oregon in 2008 by 16 points. This year his lead is down to just 6 points, per The Oregonian: President Barack Obama holds a relatively narrow lead of six points over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Oregon, according to a new poll conducted for The Oregonian. Obama's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2012 8 Comments

More on the inconvenient history of refugees in the Middle East. From the Times of Israel, Egyptian authorities reportedly seize 1.7 million documents proving Jewish ownership of assets in Cairo: Egyptian authorities confiscated some 1.7 million documents reportedly proving Jewish ownership of land and assets in Cairo....

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