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Squeezing California - Equal Protection Project Fighting Higher Ed DEI Discrimination Statewide

State Dept. Links 'Code Pink' and Other Far-Left Groups to the Chinese Communist Party

Harvard Prof Who Chaired 'Institutional Neutrality Group' Advocates 'Resistance' to Trump

‘American Muslims for Palestine’ 2020 Annual Conf Exploited Racial Tensions to Use Against Israel

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on December 01, 2020 17 Comments

We have covered the radical Islamist group American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) extensively, especially as the group has increasingly framed its anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism as expressions of 'intersectional' social justice activism. In 2020, AMP has yet again used its largest annual event—the "Palestine Conference"—to hijack and foment existing racial tensions as a political warfare weapon against Israel.

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6038074235001/#sp=show-clips

Barr Appoints Special Counsel to investigate Russian probe

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 01, 2020 51 Comments

Tuesday, Attorney General Barr announced the appointment of Special Counsel John Durham a US Attorney, to probe the Russia investigation that targeted the Trump camp.

Pennsylvania: Emergency Injunction Sought From SCOTUS To Halt Any Further Certification Actions

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2020 59 Comments

On Saturday night, November 28, we noted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses challenge to mail-in ballot procedures, vacates halt to certification. The basis for the PA Supreme Court ruling was that the petitioners had waited too long, and should have challenged mail-in ballot procedures prior to the election:

AG Barr: No Criminal Fraud on a Scale That Would Change Outcome of Election, Trump’s Legal Team Responds

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 01, 2020 73 Comments

In an interview with the Associated Press, Attorney General William Barr indicated that their investigations found no evidence of widespread criminal fraud such that the outcome of the election would change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1cmEJ1HKJ4&t=112s

Iran Changes Story, Claims Nuclear Weapons Chief Killed by Israeli-Made ‘Remote-Controlled Device’

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 01, 2020 11 Comments

The Iranian regime has revised how the country's nuclear weapons chief was assassinated outside Tehran.

Mistrial Declared in Case of Stanford Students Charged After Anti-Israel Protests in 2024

Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus

CUNY Law Hosting Lecture Framing Hamas Tunnels as Anti-Colonial Resistance

Report Alleges Georgetown U. Received $971 Million From Qatar

Saint Mary’s College in Indiana Finally Approves TPUSA After Four Years

In the End, it is Trump Who Has Done More Than Anyone to Bring Down Epstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSxmyjKGEY

SoCal Restaurant Owner Mocks Gov. Newsom in Hot Take Over ‘French Laundry’ Dining

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 01, 2020 11 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was forced to apologize after a news report surfaced that he attended a fancy dinner party honoring a top political adviser, which occurred as the governor discouraged households gathering together for their own parties during the upcoming holiday season.

Seattle To Send First-Time Non-Violent Criminals To ‘Community Panel’ and Have Taxpayers Pay Their Restitution

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2020 93 Comments

Seattle is about to try a new form of community policing which would have criminals face a non-profit community panel and in some cases, put taxpayers on the hook for restitution. The left said they wanted to 'reimagine' law enforcement. Consider this a preview.

Today is Giving Tuesday

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 01, 2020 3 Comments

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day set aside to raise money for non-profit organizations world-wide.

https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1333554455766241283?s=20

Georgia Senate Candidate Warnock Laughs at Concealed Carrying Churchgoers

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 30, 2020 33 Comments

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is probably not a good look for Warnock, who's in a highly contested Senate runoff race in GEORGIA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1JySALvmSI

#NY22: Republican Challenger Claudia Tenney Moves Back Into Lead By 13 Votes After Final Count

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 30, 2020 13 Comments

The lead for #NY22 changes every single day. Now Republican challenger Claudia Tenney leads Democrat incumbent Anthony Brindisi in the final vote. But the winner will likely come from the 2,200 affidavit ballots both parties rejected and 270 absentee ballots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSAoitd1BTQ

Candace Owens Takes On Facebook “Fact Checker” PolitiFact And Wins

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 30, 2020 21 Comments

I've long been an admirer of conservative firebrand Candace Owens. She's a smart as a whip and absolutely fearless champion of conservative principles—of limited government, of the Bill of Rights, and of American values that want to lift up every American of every race, religion, creed, etc. rather than dragging everyone, excepting the leftist political elite and their favored entities, down to an "equitable" level of abject poverty and blind reliance on government for their daily bread.

NYC Mayor de Blasio Allows In-Person Elementary School Starting on December 7

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 30, 2020 11 Comments

Science has shown us for a while that schools are pretty safe from COVID-19 spreads. That didn't stop New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from shutting down the schools due to a spike in cases in the city. Parents got ticked and *now* de Blasio acknowledges the science the Democrats supposedly embrace so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw58yvvZMzo

Biden OMB Nominee Neera Tanden Deletes Tweets Blasting Republicans

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 30, 2020 16 Comments

Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center American Progress (CAP), has a tough road to confirmation as Joe Biden's budget director. Tanden deleted tweets between November 16 and today due to harsh criticism of Republican senators, which she will need for confirmation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRTzwkLQIA

Trump Sends Biden Get Well Wishes After Hairline Fracture in Foot After Playing With Dog

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 30, 2020 50 Comments

Joe Biden has a small hairline fracture in his foot after he fell while playing with his dog Major. Even President Donald Trump wished him well.

Branco Cartoon – The New Abnormal

Posted by A.F. Branco on November 30, 2020 8 Comments

Master Class...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9WNmFVuv4I

Cancel Mob Attacks U Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot For Questioning Diversity Hiring Dogma

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2020 56 Comments

"Cancel culture" is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called "antiracist") indoctrination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5MecINoT0

#GASen: Jon Ossoff Embraces His Inner Bernie Bro, Praises Bernie’s Advocacy For Socialized Medicine As “Necessary”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 29, 2020 22 Comments

Back in 2017, Ossoff ran—and lost—the most expensive House campaign in history for Georgia's 6th district. At the time, anti-Trump MSNBC host Joe Scarborough decried Ossoff as a “Bernie Sanders socialist.” He was not wrong.