Mike LaChance is also known as “Aleister.” He is a Generation X libertarian originally known for his blog American Glob. He has also written for the Center for Security Policy, the Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and others.
He covers higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection and is also the editor of American Lookout.
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Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security is Alejandro Mayorkas, who held a lower position at DHS under Obama. While the media is swooning over this choice, they’re leaving out an important part of Mayorkas’s record.
In 2013, Mayorkas was embroiled in a scandal that involved the alleged sale...
How many other schools have had a similar experience and don’t even know it? People are making life-altering decisions based on this.
The New York Post reports:
University COVID ‘outbreak’ due to more than 50 false positive test results
Concordia University in California said more than 50 rapid COVID-19 tests offered to asymptomatic students...
George Washington University should ask the NBA how this is working out for them. The ratings aren’t great.
Campus Reform reports:
GWU paints BLM symbol with closed fist on basketball court
George Washington University painted a “Black Lives Matter” symbol on its basketball court, which the university’s basketball and volleyball teams use for practice,...
This is from a story about conservatives on campus at Harvard. They are obviously a small minority.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
A Look into the Lives of Conserv...
As we watch Democrats and their many friends in media melt down over Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election over alleged voter fraud, it’s important to remember where we were four years ago after Trump’s surprise 2016 victory.
Not only were Democrats claiming that Russia stole the election for Trump, they harassed...
How much longer do people think everything can go on as virtual only? Sooner or later people will start asking why you need an actual campus and buildings.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Wentworth Faculty Rebuke Spring Instruction Plans
Worried for their safety and stretched thin between work and parenting responsibilities, faculty members and librarians...
So we have finally come to the point where progressives are advocating the burning of books. Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long.
Campus Reform reports:
Berkeley English prof tells people to ‘burn’ ‘transphobic’ book
A Univers...
Do you ever get the sense that some college courses are designed by a generator that takes random left-wing talking points and arranges them in different combinations?
The College Fix reports:
Penn Native American literature course will explore capitalism’s role in climate change
The University of Pennsylvania will offer a course in the spring...
Notice that the goal here is not greater academic achievement. The priority is the left’s agenda.
Campus Reform reports:
Trinity College will make six new diversity hires each year, implement mandatory ‘unconscious bias,’ ‘microaggression’ tra...
If Joe Biden is sworn in as president in January, he is going to have a serious problem on his hands. No one on the right has forgotten the relentless attacks of the last four years. Calls for unity are going to fall on deaf ears.
Millions of Americans don’t even view...
Why is the left so intent on politicizing Thanksgiving? We go through this every single year.
The College Fix reports:
Professor instructs students on ‘decolonizing your Thanksgiving’
An assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania recently talked to students about how to “decolonize” their Thanksgiving, arguing that the traditional pilgrims and Indians...
We have gotten to the point where people on the left are comfortable using threats and intimidation. Where do they think this will end?
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Cornell Activists Threaten Peers Who Voted Against Disarming the Police
Cornell University activists are threatening student government representatives who voted against disarming the campus police.
On...
It’s that time of year again and right on cue, progressives are urging people to ruin the holidays with political fights.
Campus Reform reports:
UVA student newspaper opinion writer: ‘Stand up’ to ‘racist family’ at Thanksgiving
An opinion columnist at the University of Virginia’s student newspaper encouraged her readers to “stand up” to “...
In his opening monologue last night, Tucker Carlson talked about how big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
He suggested that they acted on behalf of just one party, the Democrats.
If Joe Biden is sworn in as president in January, expect higher education to pursue critical race theory with even greater zeal in the coming years.
The College Fix reports:
Stanford apologizes for telling departments to follow Trump executive order on race and sex stereotyping
Some college diversity training programs are likely to make...
This will probably not come as much of a surprise to Legal Insurrection readers. When you have so many people in education who seem to be supporters of socialism and even communism, it tends to have an effect.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
State Department Says Anti-American Educators Undermine U.S. Efforts to...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education scores another victory for free speech.
From the FIRE Blog:
VICTORY: Student stopped by campus police for holding up a sign settles First Amendment lawsuit with Mississippi college
Mississippi’s Jones College on Wednesday finalized a settlement with former student Michael Brown, who sued the college after administrators...
