January 2013

All purpose, pre-written, generic MSM announcement of David Gregory (non) prosecution

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 4 Comments

I have been known to prepare all-purpose, pre-written, generic MSM-style announcements on the cusp of an important decision. So here's what I have pre-drafted for the David Gregory decision which will be released later this afternoon: In a decision sure to have profound implications for the national...

Decision whether to charge David Gregory will be announced later today

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 5 Comments

I just got off the phone with Ted Gest, the press spokesman for the District of Columbia Attorney General. Gest confirmed that the decision whether to charge David Gregory with violating D.C.'s gun law will be announced by the Attorney General later this afternoon via email. We...

Come on West Virginia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 13 Comments

Jay Rockefeller is retiring, don't make another Manchin mistake in 2014, via The Hill: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for reelection in 2014, giving Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in a state that's grown increasingly red in recent years. “As I...

The best and the brightest

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 7 Comments

but not necessarily the most forthright. The second term Obama nominees are a good indicator that it will be four years of aggressive agitating by Obama. We should fight every objectionable nominee. ...

Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page ethnically cleansed, again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 36 Comments

Meanwhile, Warren listed elsewhere on Wikipedia as "Multiracial" "White Native American"...

Miles apart: Walker to cut income tax, Rahm to ban guns

Posted by Anne Segal on January 11, 2013 18 Comments

Just a little more than an hour apart, but world's away in leadership are Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker. Thursday, Walker announced today that the budget he will sign this summer will include "significant" cuts to the income tax rates....

Anonymous-style threat to expose more journalists’ personal information

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 61 Comments

Retaliation for gun permit disclosures continues...

The company I keep

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2013 20 Comments

Search my name on Google and here are the people the algorithm in the sky says people also search for. I can't argue with the algorithm, since it's just math. ...

Anatomy of a twice-murdered economy

Posted by Joel Engel on January 10, 2013 19 Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown just announced that California has a budget surplus! No, that’s not a joke. I mean, it is a joke, but it's not funny. After years of deficits as high as $25 billion, he says we’re now in the black—and to keep it...

Branco Cartoon – Gore-y Details

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 10, 2013 4 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

“Independence Day” offers warning and inspiration to conservatives

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 10, 2013 21 Comments

I am still shocked by the Speaker of the House John Boehner's shock that President Obama said, "We don't have a spending problem." That Obama is using the debt as a weapon of mass destruction cannot be a surprise to anyone who has followed news of...

Washington DC the star of 2013 Oscars nominations

Posted by Anne Segal on January 10, 2013 18 Comments

The 2013 Academy Award nominations (snooze...

Chuck Hagel Chuck Hagel Chuck Hagel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2013 31 Comments

I have not been on team anti-Chuck Hagel mostly because I didn't know a lot about Chuck Hagel. But what I'm finding out is deeply troubling -- including David Brooks' excellent post highlighted in my post Hagel the perfect foil to manage military’s decline over Republican...

The significance of the Culture Frontier in 2013

Posted by Anne Segal on January 10, 2013 9 Comments

As we all seek out ways to restore our country to the right path, I believe there is one area that has been neglected: culture. In 2013, my organization The Frontier Lab is excited to continue its study of the facets of the American character--how Americans understand...

This is what happens when you don’t own your own url

Posted by Anne Segal on January 10, 2013 7 Comments

This is what happens when you are a politician and you don't own the URL for your name: The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), as their announcement on Facebook details, has launched a website at the www.ChuckHagel.com URL entitled, "Chuck Hagel is not a responsible option," with posts on...

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