Author: Leslie Eastman

UPDATED! On my own blog, Temple of Mut, I post news about discoveries related to ancient Egypt. I also keep up with the news about modern Egypt, and today the country is being overrun with boobs.  The first example is Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, who...

Agenda-driven journalism is poised to pit two Democratic constituencies against each other in my home state of California. Americans are becoming aware that there is an "oil boom" in this country, courtesy of the technology behind the fracking of oil shale.  California's Monterey Shale Formation, which...

I am delighted to let Legal Insurrection readers know that my College Insurrection compatriot, Aleister of American Glob, will be on BlogTalkRadio.com's Canto Talk program tonight (Thursday, Jan. 31st) at 7 pm Pacific/9 pm Central/10 pm Eastern Standard Time (click here for link). It is my...

More unintended consequences of laws which are too broadly worded. The Atlantic writer Derek Khanna recently named the Most Ridiculous New Law - 2013 a provision which previously had been waived but has come back making it illegal to "unlock" your cellphone.  And while there is plenty...

Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the "Star Wars Tax Rule":  The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that underscore...

The timing of the recent announcement from the Obama Administration that it would lift the ban on women serving in combat positions was fascinating. After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's responsibility dodging and Biden-esque responses to questioning by Senators yesterday, the White House needed a distraction...

President Barack Obama's inaugural address was an ode to big government. And, of big government entities, perhaps the most toxic to the American economy is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  However, this federal agency cannot hold a candle to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in terms...

Professor Jacobson made an exceedingly important point yesterday: Our focus must be on "changing what we can change, protecting what we can protect, undermining what we can undermine, acting locally." Based on my experience in San Diego, I cannot stress enough the vital role that local...

I would like to introduce the "Shrine of Flaming Capitalism's Product of the Month": The Destino. And flaming is a worthy designation indeed. The Destino is essentially a Fisker body over a Corvette Engine. Legal Insurrection readers may recall Fisker is a company that produces plug-in hybrid...

In the wake of the pathetic and distorted American coverage of the attack on our Libyan embassy and the subsequent death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, I wrote: American Journalism Has Been Officially Outsourced. The stories from international sources proved to be far more...

I am often asked why I remain a registered Democrat, despite my decidedly fiscal-sanity oriented independent streak. In part, it is how I can effectively fight the "left-right" political paradigm that is being used by the elite media and politicos to divide us, in order to...