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Saturday Night Card Game (“Bigot!” is the new “let me convince you of the wisdom of my argument”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 16 Comments

The number of topics in which an attempt to have a discussion of opposing viewpoints is shut down by a fusillade of taunts of "bigot" seems to be multiplying. On the gay marriage issue, the Most important legacy of Obama’s gay marriage switch was freeing Dems...

MSNBC — All your children are belong to us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 91 Comments

"We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents"...

So tell me about Dr. Greg Brannon (for U.S. Senate in North Carolina 2014)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 10 Comments

Before you scream that it's too early for this, let me remind you that it's never too early to start thinking through a plan to oust a vulnerable Democrat like Kay Hagan (D-NC) who shouldn't be in the Senate to begin with but for a...

October 15, 2008: “Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of Fairness?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 36 Comments

Were you reading Legal Insurrection on the 3rd day of its existence? If so, you would have known that Democrats were targeting your 401(k) and other retirement accounts, Will 401(k)’s Disappear in the Interest of “Fairness”?: Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3...

EU Foreign Policy Chief says nuke talks with Iran have failed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 9 Comments

No One Could Have Seen This Coming...

“Fake But Real” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 0 Comments

Fake: McDonald’s “College Grad Job Ad” listing “fake but accurate” Unfortunately, everything else is real. Really sad: U. Chicago Demolishes Reagan’s Childhood Home Really a glimpse of things to come: Gay Students Seek Campus Chaplain’s Removal from George Washington U. Video: Woman Destroys Pro-Life Display at Ohio State Stanley Kurtz – What’s the...

Pro Tip – Blogging ain’t art, or rocket science

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Leslie forwarded me (via Captain Capitalism) this course description at the University of Maryland: ENGL488B - Topics in Advanced Writing: Writing for the Blogosphere: Prehistory, Theory, Practice This course will offer students an immersion in blogging as a writing practice and as a social/literary genre with deep,...

Love of, um

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2013 4 Comments

From Ben: I hope we survive to read the book...

Obligatory — Krystal Ball uses daughter as prop

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 34 Comments

Alternative headline -- Krystal Ball daughter forgets lines forcing mother to cross-examine her on TV ...

The Thresher and The Scorpion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 15 Comments

April 10 is the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of The Thresher submarine. At 9:18 a.m. on April 10, 1963, sonar operators aboard the U.S. Navy submarine rescue ship Skylark, which was accompanying the nuclear attack submarine Thresher, heard a chilling sound “like air rushing into...

Obamacare failing from impossibility not just incompetence

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 19 Comments

Joe Klein recently wrote, ObamaCare incompetence (via memeorandum) Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had...

What don’t you understand about these budget plans?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 6 Comments

The choice is so clear. Which means they won't make the right choice. Via WaPo: ...

The language police win again: AP bans term “Islamist” (Update: List of Muslim leaders who already have violated AP style guide)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 17 Comments

The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists. We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is...

By all means continue with the charade

Posted by Anne Segal on April 05, 2013 14 Comments

The Obama Administration has come up with another transparent stunt to attempt to paint the lackluster sequester doom as something other than the PR attempt that it was. Obama announced he would give 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury, a move that has now...

Mideast Media Sampler 04/05/2013 – Names will never hurt me

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 5 Comments

1) Casting the first stone - and all the subsequent ones too What's the difference between assault with a deadly weapon - a shooting - and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds? Why should teenagers think of rock-throwing as something fun to...

Obama jobs “recovery” nears completion as people leave workforce in droves

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2013 9 Comments

The "unemployment rate" is a number which increasingly is just political, as we have the Obama-phenomenon of large numbers of people leaving the workforce thereby dropping the "unemployment rate" since people who leave the workforce don't count as unemployed. Long ago a reader predicted the terms...

Dem candidate in #IL02 blames Aurora victims: “Nobody pulled out their gun to kill the gentleman”

Posted by Anne Segal on April 05, 2013 15 Comments

Robin Kelly apparently doesn't know theater was gun-free zone...

Branco Cartoon – Ready, Aim, Thud

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 05, 2013 6 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

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