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September 2013

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 14, 2013 14 Comments

Business owners on the boardwalk in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights are dealing with the aftermath of the fire that took out more than 30 businesses on Thursday. When you grow up and live in Jersey, for most of us, “the boardwalk” at any one of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2013 3 Comments

What we have here is a failure to understand. They don't understand what they're doing wrong: Only 16% of the 420K students in the CA State University system graduate within 4 years Catholic college hosts sex workshop featuring “c**t” coloring book DOE and DOJ threaten free speech by stalling...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2013 5 Comments

From Bill: Obviously confused Full of "poop" and voting for Obama does make sense tho. From St Pete, FL. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 8 Comments

Other than some prescheduled posts, see you tomorrow night or Sunday. Mandy and others will cover tomorrow. https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/378621062483030018 https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/378655646620868609...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 51 Comments

Andrew Branca and I gave a lecture on September 12, 2013, at Cornell Law School in an event sponsored by the Cornell 2nd Amendment Club. The topic was the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin and subsequent trial. My segment starts at 2:45 and Andrew Branca's at...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 13, 2013 18 Comments
Friday the 13th is an appropriate day to report that the North Koreans may have taken a lesson from Syria, which seemingly built up its chemical weapons supply "in plain sight." Satellite imagery shows that North Korea appears to have restarted a reactor capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.

North Korea Nuclear Plant Satellite

White steam can be seen rising from a building near the hall housing steam turbines and electric generators at Yongbyon nuclear complex in an image taken on 31 August, said the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. ...The US-Korea Institute said the gas-graphite reactor was capable of producing 6kg of weapons-grade plutonium a year. It believes that the North already has 34-36kg, sufficient for around a dozen weapons.
How will the Obama Administration respond? With a strongly worded message, of course!
The United States scolded North Korea on Thursday over reports indicating the reclusive nation has restarted a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor, emphasizing that such a move would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. ...."Suffice to say, if it was true, it would be a violation of the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions and, of course, contrary to North Korea's commitments under its September 19, 2005, joint statement," said State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.
Its this kind of strong stance that has inspired neighboring Japan to build up its national defense, despite an economy still suffering from the impact of a deadly earthquake/tsunami combination in 2011. However, at least one South Korean thinks this Friday the 13th is very lucky:
More than 40 years after he was abducted from a fishing boat and taken to North Korea, a South Korean fisherman has returned to his home in Seoul, state-run Yonhap news agency reported Friday, citing a government official.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 134 Comments

Andrew Branca and I gave our presentation yesterday at Cornell Law School on the Zimmerman case, and the reasons why the jury reached the correct verdict. I'm hopeful the video will be available to post soon. One of the things I talked about was the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 23 Comments

Now Bashar Assad is showing the price for him to declare his chemical weapons and talk about -- just words -- maybe, possibly, removing them to somewhere, somehow, some time in the future. https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/378509356183986176 That price is guaranteeing his regime stays in power and the rebels are...

Posted by Laurel Conrad on September 13, 2013 25 Comments

Spoiler candidate alert: Libertarian Robert Sarvis is a third-party candidate in the 2013 Virginia governor’s race. Although polling reveals that it is unlikely for him to win, will he split votes away from Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli in the process? Election day is less than 60...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2013 14 Comments

From Brooks: Saw this truck in a parking lot outside my doctor's office in Bedford, TX. It took a moment to realize that the "Prius Repellent" sign on the truck was situated over the truck's muffler. Have a good one. ...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 2 Comments

In a move that is apt to stun the California-critics among Legal Insurrection readers, our state legislature passed a pro-fracking measure: Oil and gas drillers that use a technique known as fracking would face new rules in California under legislation that was sent to governor Wednesday. The...

Posted by New Neo on September 12, 2013 37 Comments

Peter Wehner certainly thinks so: In the first year of his second term, the president has failed on virtually every front. He put his prestige on the line to pass federal gun-control legislation–and lost. He made climate change a central part of his inaugural address–and nothing...

Posted by David Gerstman on September 12, 2013 23 Comments

When aliens said "We come in peace," they almost invariably had their sights set on world domination. So beware Vladimir Putin when he comes bearing peace....

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 13 Comments

More politicians are joining San Diego's former mayor, Bob Filner, for early retirements. Colorado citizens held historic recall elections Tuesday and removed two state senators: Two Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the president of the state Senate, were recalled Tuesday in elections brought about by their support...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 12, 2013 12 Comments

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to meet with top Republican lawmakers next week to discuss a number of policy issues. From Bloomberg News: Facebook Inc. (FB) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been pushing for a revision of U.S. immigration law, plans to...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 17 Comments
For event organizers, the definition of failure is when counter-protesters and police outnumber your intended audience. A good example to total event failure was the "Million Muslim March," which was just a bit shy of its goal...by 999,975 people. And it seems that the event wasn't so much about Islam, but about the theories of 9-11 "Truthers".
Attendance evidently ran into the dozens, although it was hard to pick the demonstrators out from counter-demonstrators and reporters covering the event, who may have outnumbered them. It didn’t help that the event was linked to anti-Semites and 9/11 conspiracy theorist lunatics.
While the Biker's event was less than "2 Million", the turnout for these patriots was much more substantial. Via Twitter and Twitchy, it looks like there were over 75,000 hogs on the roads of the nation's capital today.
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