November 2020

The Campus Purge Begins Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 21, 2020 0 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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Kyle Rittenhouse freed on $2 million bail

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2020 41 Comments

Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager who is charged with murder in a shooting during Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots, has been freed on $2 million bail.

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Flashback 2017: Despite Most Expensive House Race in History, Jon Ossoff Lost Bid For #GA06

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 20, 2020 27 Comments

As attention turns to the January 5, 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia, I thought it would be interesting to look back at our 2017 coverage of Democrat Jon Ossoff and his bid for the House in Georgia's 6th congressional district.

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Killer Cuomo To Get International Emmy For Playing A Governor On TV

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 20, 2020 31 Comments

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will receive an Emmy Founders Award for his "leadership during the Covid19 pandemic & his masterful use of TV to inform and calm people around the world." Cuomo will receive the award November 23.

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Chicago: 2020 On Track to Surpass 700 Homicides and Become the City’s Deadliest Year

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 20, 2020 24 Comments

Chicago 1998: 704 homicides. Chicago 2016: 781 homicides. Data from the medical examiner's office shows that 2020 might become Chicago's deadliest year.

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Joyce Carol Oates Equates Trump Supporters With Germans Living Under Nazis

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 20, 2020 57 Comments

Joyce Carol Oates, author and English professor at Berkeley, is no stranger to controversy on Twitter. Her latest is comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the Holocaust and Trump supporters to Germans who lived under the Nazis.

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Broward College Provides Resources for Profs to Incorporate Black Lives Matter Into the Classroom

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2020 5 Comments

“White students may resist confronting issues of race and racism"...

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Megyn Kelly Pulls Her Kids Out of NYC Schools Over Left-Wing Political Indoctrination

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2020 26 Comments

Former FOX News host Megyn Kelly recently revealed on her podcast that she has pulled two of her children out of their private New York City school over what she sees as political propaganda. She even says she is leaving the city. The document she describes, and claims was circulated to parents and school staff, is the same sort of social justice rhetoric we regularly document in higher education.

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Forestry Department at U. Minnesota Deemed Too White by Campus Activists

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2020 7 Comments

"letter calls out the department’s leadership for not mentioning George Floyd’s death while in police custody in its newsletter in June 2020"...

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Rising Democratic Star Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Loses to Military Veteran

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 20, 2020 11 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2018, the California city of Stockton's then 27-year old mayor, Michael Tubbs, planned to launch his version of “universal basic income”, where its citizens are paid simply for being citizens. Two years later, this "rising Democratic star" lost to military veteran Kevin Lincoln.

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UW-Madison Planning to Remove Large Rock From Campus Because it Once Had a Racist Name

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2020 9 Comments

“This is a huge accomplishment for us”...

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Stacey Abrams’ Georgia Voter Effort Was Overrated and Overhyped

Posted by Stacey Matthews on November 20, 2020 30 Comments

Even as votes were still being counted in the state of Georgia the first time around, Stacey Abrams was being hailed in media/Democrat circles as the tireless hero who may have flipped her state blue in the presidential election.

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Democrats and media blew up all norms to get Trump, and shouldn’t lecture about election contests

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2020 79 Comments

The Trump campaign and various allied Republicans are contesting the results of the presidential election in several key swing states, particularly Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona. Some court cases have been filed, but the promise of more substantial legal efforts are in the offing.

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South Australia Police: ‘You Cannot Leave the House to Walk the Dog or to Exercise’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 19, 2020 20 Comments

The news of South Australia floated under the radar until the South Australia Police tweeted that residents cannot even walk their dog or exercise during the six-day lockdown to combat COVID-19.

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While You Were Focused on The Kraken, the Senate Continued Confirming Trump Federal Judges

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2020 50 Comments

Mitch McConnell long ago promised to leave no federal court vacancy unfilled by the end of Trump's first term. Depending on what happens in the next three weeks, this may be Trump's only term and McConnell has continued moving judicial nominations through to confirmation.

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Petition at Harvard to Bar Trump Admin Members From Teaching or Speaking at the School

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 19, 2020 32 Comments

A petition making the rounds at Harvard seeks to prevent members of the Trump administration from doing pretty much anything at the school. For an institution that's supposedly dedicated to diversity and inclusion, they have a funny way of showing it.

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Pompeo Declares BDS Movement Antisemitic, Seeks to Defund Anti-Israel Boycott Campaigners

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 19, 2020 5 Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recognized the anti-Israel boycott campaign, or the BDS Movement, as antisemitic.

The State Department "will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic," Secretary Pompeo said during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

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Danish Study Shows That Face Masks Provide Only Limited Protection Against COVID-19

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 19, 2020 26 Comments

Last month, I reviewed the many reasons why mask mandates won't work. In a nutshell, it is because those mandates' success relies on humans to use and maintain those masks at all times...which, of course, dooms it to failure.

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