Kemberlee Kaye is the Senior Contributing Editor of Legal Insurrection, where she has worked since 2014 and is the Director of Operations and Editorial Development for the Legal Insurrection Foundation. She also serves as the Managing Editor for CriticalRace.org, a research project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation.
She has a background working in immigration law, and as a grassroots organizer, digital media strategist, campaign lackey, and muckraker. Over the years Kemberlee has worked with FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, and US Senate re-election campaigns, among others.
Kemberlee, her daughter, and her son live a lovely taco-filled life in their native Texas.
You can reach her anytime via email at kk @ legalinsurrection.com.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has dropped out of elections for House Speaker.
Republicans were to meet Thursday at noon to elect a new Speaker.
McCarthy had struggled to win over conservatives, and while he was the favorite to win the closed-door vote, he did not have the votes on the floor to win election.
McCarthy got up in front of the room, said he's not right person to lead the conference & quit. Boehner then said the election is postponed
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on October 07, 2015101 Comments
During an interview with Special Report's Brett Baier Tuesday night, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said eminent domain is a "wonderful thing."
"I think eminent domain is wonderful if you're building a highway and you need to build, as an example, a highway, and you're going to be blocked by a hold-out or, in some cases, it's a hold-out. Just so you understand, nobody knows this better than I do, because I built a lot of buildings in Manhattan and you'll have 12 sites and you'll get 11 and you'll have the one hold-out and you end up building around them and everything else, OK. So I know it better than anybody."
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on October 07, 201532 Comments
Tuesday, Senator Cruz chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts titled “Opportunity Denied: How Overregulation Harms Minorities” that investigated the harmful effects of government overregulation on people and businesses who lack the resources and political connections to deal effectively with mountains of red tape.
According to his office, Cruz invited Harry Alford, president and CEO, National Black Chamber of Commerce; Michael Barrera, national economic prosperity manager, The LIBRE Institute; Sabina Loving, owner and operator, Loving Tax Services, Inc.; and Timothy Sandefur, principal attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation. Their testimony focused on the harmful effects of government overregulation on the African-American and Hispanic communities and on the experience of small businesses within these communities.
Democrat witnesses included Aaron Mair, president of the Sierra Club; Amit Narang, regulation policy advocate at Public Citizen; and William Scott, CEO of Tristatz, LLC.
“Fifty-five years ago, there were 13 regulatory federal government agencies. Today, there are over 70," said Senator Cruz.
This is where Cruz shines his brightest.
Questioning Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, Senator Cruz challenged Mair to name one instance harmful government regulation:
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on October 07, 201523 Comments
Over at College Insurrection, we posted a story about Harvard's recent debate loss to a team of inmates from New York.
Fox News reported Tuesday that the inmates who beat Harvard's team are gaining quite the reputation having also beat teams from West Point and the University of Vermont. Unlike most debate squads, the inmates had no Internet access to assist in their debate prep.
A group of New York inmates has toppled Harvard's prestigious debate team.
It took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Napanoch. The Ivy League undergrads were invited last month to debate the inmates who take in-prison courses taught by Bard College faculty.
Harvard's team won the national title this year and the world championship in 2014.
But the inmates are building a reputation, too. The club has notched victories against teams from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the University of Vermont.
Against Harvard, the inmates were tasked with defending the position that public schools should be allowed to turn away students whose parents came to the U.S. illegally. Harvard's team responded, but a panel of neutral judges declared the inmates victorious.
Tuesday, hosts of ABC's Good Morning America covered the story, only to mock the inmate debate squad:
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on October 06, 201556 Comments
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has long maintained America's cultural trajectory is paramount to her economic valuation.
In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at an Oregon community college, Jindal released a statement railing against culture rot.
Another week, another mass shooting, another press conference by the President lecturing us on the need for gun control, and now Hillary and Obama are in a race to see which of them can be the most extreme in trying to destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Rinse and repeat.
But there is something missing from this discussion, and it’s a glaring omission that everyone knows deep down, but politicians are afraid to talk about.
I’m going to go ahead and talk about it, and I don’t care at all if some people don’t like it, the truth is important.
What is the root cause of all these evil acts? These people who go into classrooms and churches and murder innocent people? How did we get to this place?
These shootings are a symptom of deep and serious cultural decay in our society.
Let that sink in for a minute.
These acts of evil are a direct result of cultural rot, and it is cultural rot that we have brought upon ourselves, and then we act like we are confounded and perplexed by what is happening here.
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on October 06, 201564 Comments
Well, we can cross "Use Bible to Justify Government Subsidized Entitlement Expansion" off the 2016 presidential bingo card.
In a video published Tuesday, Ohio Governor and Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich offered to buy Bibles for those opposed to Medicaid expansion.
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on October 06, 201517 Comments
Hillary Clinton's campaign released its first ad of the 2016 presidential cycle Tuesday, and boy is it cringeworthy.
Called, "Admit," the thirty-second spot seeks to capitalize off House Majority Leader McCarthy's recent ill-conceived comments about the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Check it out:
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on October 05, 20158 Comments
Manhattan's first Chick-fil-A opened this weekend and despite liberal misgivings of the closed-on-Sundays fast food chain, the demand for chicken sandwiches wrapped around the block.
Chick-fil-A is opening its first location in NYC tomorrow, and already people are waiting in line in the cold rain. pic.twitter.com/kRVb0RpynV
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on October 05, 201541 Comments
This is gross. And also sad. Progressivism continues its inevitable descent into complete parody.
According to Right Wing News, a few n'er do wellers on 4chan had a brilliant idea: see if they could convince people to, "publicly piss/sh*t their pants in the name of ‘Equality?'"
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on October 04, 201571 Comments
A poll released by Investor's Business Daily Friday shows Dr. Ben Carson sailing past Donald Trump. While Trump's numbers are steadily declining, he remains one of three contenders pulling in doubly digits in IBD's poll, the third being Senator Rubio.
IBD writes:
The nationwide survey found that 24% of Republicans back Carson, compared with 17% who say they support Trump.
Marco Rubio came in third with 11% and Carly Fiorina fourth at 9%. Jeb Bush, once considered a prohibitive favorite, ranked fifth with just 8% support, which was a point lower than those who say they are still undecided.
The IBD/TIPP Poll has a proven track record for accuracy, based on its performance in the past three presidential elections. In a comparison of the final results of various pollsters for the 2004 and 2008 elections, IBD/TIPP was the most accurate. And the New York Times concluded that IBD/TIPP was the most accurate among 23 polls over the three weeks leading up to the 2012 election.
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on October 02, 201536 Comments
Tragic deaths seem to dredge up the worst kind of discourse from liberal punditry.
The national conversation, particularly in regards to calls for increased gun control tends to go something like this:
"Someone broke a law."
"WE MUST MAKE MORE LAWS. WE MUST DO SOMETHING."
"Yes, but these individuals didn't follow the law to begin with."
"WE MUST MAKE MORE LAWS. WE MUST DO SOMETHING."
"Because criminals will follow a new law when they're already ignoring all the others?"
"WE MUST MAKE MORE LAWS. MOAR LAWS. ALL THE LAWS. SOMETHING. GUNS. SOMETHING. YARRRRGHH."
"We must do SOMETHING," is tired mantra and one beginning to show signs of wear and tear.
Friday morning, National Review's Charles Cooke joined Morning Joe to discuss the horrific Oregon community college shooting. Cooke writes extensively about second amendment liberties.
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on October 02, 201522 Comments
Jeb Bush is being raked over the media coals for supposedly expressing a callous disregard for the Oregon mass shooting victims by saying "stuff happens."
But those words in a long dialogue were taken completely out of context and promoted by New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza. It was then picked up by others in the media based on Lizza's tweet about it, which was shared over 1000 times on Twitter.
Here's how it went down.
Former Governor Jeb Bush was questioned about Thursday's UCC tragic shooting during a press conference held Friday afternoon. Ryan Lizza, a reporter for the New Yorker and CNN contributor pulled two little words from Bush's answer, pretended they were indicative of Bush's statement as a whole, and then kept digging.
Lizza tweeted:
In Greenville, South Carolina, Jeb Bush, arguing against calls for gun control after major tragedy, says, "stuff happens."
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on October 02, 201514 Comments
What?! You mean to tell me Iran may have lied about stuff?! It's a good thing we didn't strike a nuclear deal with them or anything, oh wait...
Monday, Saudi Arabian news outlet Al Arabiya reported eight members of the Iranian Women's Soccer Team were not actually women.
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on October 01, 201532 Comments
Facing pressure from activists, Grocer Whole Foods recently announced that by April of 2016 they'll no longer been selling products made from prison labor.
Not only is the Texan grocer's move disappointing, it's also misguided.
According to NPR, the groups targeting Whole Foods decried prison labor as "slave labor" and "exploitation."
The move comes on the heels of a demonstration in Houston where the company was chastised for employing inmates through prison-work programs.
Michael Allen, founder of End Mass Incarceration Houston, organized the protest. He says Whole Foods was engaging in exploitation since inmates are typically paid very low wages.
"People are incarcerated and then forced to work for pennies on the dollar — compare that to what the products are sold for," Allen tells The Salt.
Currently, Whole Foods sells a goat cheese produced by Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy in Longmont, Colo., and a tilapia from Quixotic Farming, which bills itself as a family-owned sustainable seafood company.
These companies partner with Colorado Correctional Industries, a division of the Colorado Department of Corrections, to employ prisoners to milk goats and raise the fish."
Exploiting inmates?
What about providing them with trade skills, social skills, or teaching work ethic and purpose? That's exactly what Colorado Correctional Industries does. "Every participant is not only encouraged, but expected to contribute ideas, effort and commitment," says CCI.
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on October 01, 20153 Comments
FrackNation director Phelim McAleer released a short film Wednesday ahead of Josh Fox's new film, GASWORK. Known for his film, Gasland, GASWORK is a short, fictional film that supposedly, “investigates the dangerous working conditions in the oil and gas fields.”
McAleer's short is here:
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on September 30, 201517 Comments
Republican Presidential candidates wanting a podium on the debate main stage will have to first qualify. CNBC set a 3% polling floor for the upcoming October 28th presidential debate.
There will be an undercard debate, but that too has a polling floor. To qualify for the kiddie table, candidates must have received at least 1% in any one national poll -- no averages here.
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on September 30, 201520 Comments
Wednesday afternoon, the State Department released a fifth installment of the embattled former Secretary's emails.
This month's document drop (the DOS is releasing chunks of Clinton's emails monthly) contains more classified information than previous releases.
According to the Washington Times, more than 5% of Clinton's emails in Wednesday's batch contained classified information, twice as much classified material of previous batches.
...there are at least 400 messages that contain information the government now deems classified, out of nearly 12,000 emails released so far.
But 214 of those messages came in the latest batch of 3,869 messages, for a classification rate of 5.5 percent.
None of the messages were marked classified at the time they were sent — usually in 2010 or 2011, for the latest batch — but the government has gone back and determined they contain information that shouldn’t be out in public.
