Author: Mike LaChance

Mike LaChance

Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.

Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Daily Caller, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet.

Mike is a Generation X, New England lifer who describes his political views as conservative and libertarian.

You can find him on Twitter @MikeLaChance33

Rolling Stone Settles With UVA Frat For $1.65 Million Over False Rape Story

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 14, 2017 3 Comments

“A Rape on Campus”...

Indigenous Advocates Want UN to Outlaw Cultural Appropriation

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 14, 2017 31 Comments

The progressive concept of cultural appropriation has gone international. A group of advocates for indigenous peoples wants the United Nations to make the practice a crime. What could go wrong? The CBC reports via Yahoo News:

Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to ban the appropriation of Indigenous cultures — and to do it quickly. Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.

Old Dominion U. ‘Safe Space Committee’ Concerned About ‘Heterosexism’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 13, 2017 8 Comments

"the idea that heterosexuality is the more desirable form of sexual orientation"...

UW Madison Now Offering Course on the Evils of Capitalism

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 13, 2017 3 Comments

“full range of harms and forms of injustice associated with capitalism"...

U. Chicago Students Demand Reparations for Slavery

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 13, 2017 16 Comments

"slave labor was critical to its establishment"...

It’s Time for Taxpayers to Start Issuing Campus Demands

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 13, 2017 28 Comments

If taxpayers are funding public colleges and the loans which make it possible for many students to attend them, then taxpayers are completely entitled to issue demands. That's the subject of a new column I've written for Townhall:

Vassar College Student Government Heavily in Debt

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2017 3 Comments

Math is hard....

https://petapixel.com/2017/01/21/president-trumps-official-portrait/

U. Washington Prof Claims Stress Over Trump’s Election Will Impact Evolution

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2017 5 Comments

"when you have these horrendous episodes in life"...

Kansas Profs Resigning Over State’s New Campus Carry Law

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2017 7 Comments

"I’m not working in this environment. …This is not OK.’”...

College Student to Plead Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 11, 2017 3 Comments

"working for a Democratic-affiliated organization"...

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Appeals Court: Chimpanzees Not People, Don’t Have Constitutional Rights

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 11, 2017 17 Comments

A New York appeals court has ruled that two chimpanzees in the state will not get a writ of habeas corpus for release from captivity because ... well, they're not human. This obvious legal point comes after litigation by animal rights activists. The Associated Press reports: