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October 2013

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 1 Comment

Several websites with the Qatar (.qa) domain extension have been restored to normal after being disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army this weekend. The hackers targeted the Qatar Domains Registry and altered DNS records for several high profile domains, according to Softpedia, then defacing pages...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 29 Comments

A town council in England has taken down promotional circus posters after a complaint from one woman - in a town of 28,000 - who happens to have a fear of clowns, according to the Daily Mail. A council has removed posters advertising a circus following...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 12 Comments

Remember all those "Baby on Board" yellow signs back in the day? From J: the bumper sticker we've been waiting for, re this ridiculous trend. Spotted in Charlottesville.  ...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 3 Comments

The mayor of a small town in central Pennsylvania who is running unopposed for a second term is now telling voters not to vote for him. After missing the deadline to remove his name from the ballot, Mayor Bob Wiser decided that he wants to call...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments

Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book "Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice ."  The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments

Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on Men? Is George Galloway a disgusting...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 19, 2013 7 Comments

With both houses of Congress passing the budget deal, and the Tea Party being smeared by both parties, I wanted to give my Legal Insurrection friends some reasons to have hope and a reason to focus locally. Many of these reasons can be found in Ballotpedia, an...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 17 Comments

The mother of a 14 year old girl charged with stalking in connection to the bullying case of Rebecca Sedwick, who later committed suicide, was arrested Friday on unrelated charges of child abuse and child neglect. From WTSP-10News: The mother of one of the girls facing charges...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 14 Comments

No, not the gubmint. Legal Insurrection, for scheduled "maintenance." Starting about 4 a.m. Eastern on Monday. If all goes according to plan, the outage will be short and in any event, over no later than 8 a.m. If all doesn't go according to plan, can you say "healthcare.gov"? This...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 27 Comments

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on October 24th to address the issues surrounding the health care law’s rollout.  The committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that she appear before the committee to respond...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 62 Comments

You may have heard. There's a petition at MoveOn.org, promoted by Daily Kos, to have conservative members of the House arrested for sedition. And the petition has tens of thousands of signatures, with real people feeling bold enough to put their real names on it.  Not just...

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