Posted by William A. Jacobson
on September 06, 20117 Comments
There’s an interesting race shaping up in heavily Democratic NY9 to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner (whose Twitter account was proven by the left-blogosphere to have been hacked by Andrew Breitbart, until it turned out it wasn’t). Republican Bob Turner is facing off against...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on July 01, 20116 Comments
… to my readers for making June the best month ever at Legal Insurrection in terms of blog traffic (just over 600k visits and 800k page views). Considering that it was the transition month, I was concerned that I’d leave a lot of people behind. ...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 30, 201119 Comments
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has accused Justice David Prosser of using a “chokehold” on her. The Dane County Sheriff’s office is investigating. Remember the term “chokehold” as the investigation as to what really happened progresses and the facts eventually come out. “Chokehold” is a very specific...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 27, 201138 Comments
The Wisconsin Supreme Court scuffle is moving in a direction where Justice Ann Walsh Bradley is going to have to back up her allegations that Justice David Prosser put her in a “choke hold.” As indicated at the link, there are conflicting reports as to...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 24, 20112 Comments
There’s a very interesting article in The Providence Phoenix (h/t Hummel Report) regarding plans by the Republican Party in Rhode Island to regain relevance: The Rhode Island Republican Party’s reputation for ineptitude is, by any reasonable measure, richly deserved. Sure, the party held the governor’s office for...
(by Michael Alan) By now you’ve probably heard veteran campaign strategist Ed Rollins’ comments about Sarah Palin: Sarah has not been serious over the last couple of years. She got the vice presidential thing handed to her. She didn’t go to work in the sense...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 10, 201122 Comments
I get so infuriated when Republicans pile on Sarah Palin not over policy but through personal insult because these people don’t seem to understand that they are joining in a mob which eventually will come around to beat down their own favorite candidate. And as of today,...
(by Matthew Knee) You might think so, from the “at least we aren’t hypocrites” defense that comes up every time a Democrat is caught with his pants down where they shouldn’t be. When liberals and the MSM (…but I repeat myself) amplify Republican sex scandals...
(By Michael Alan) When retired NFL quarterback legend Brett Favre was first suspected in 2010 of having a habit of “sexting” the female hosts provided to him at venues his team visited, specifically the Jets’ Jenn Sterger in 2008, he was immediately put under investigation...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 06, 201166 Comments
Earlier today I noted that numerous people owed Andrew Breitbart an apology. Among those people was Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs who accused Andrew Bretibart of “smearing” Weiner with “phony” accuastions. Now that Bretibart has been vindicated, is Charles willing to man up and apologize? ...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 06, 201141 Comments
This weekend, lacking any new Weiner revelations (but see today), the left-blogosphere (but not exclusively the left) was preoccupied with proving that Sarah Palin was wrong when she said that Paul Revere had warned the British that the colonial militias were massing. Relying on the Longfellow poem...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 31, 201120 Comments
…http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=politics/2011/05/31/sot.dc.weiner.twitter.hacked.cnn Looks like the blogosphere may be onto something. I’m beginning to feel like a moth drawn to light. Hopefully not to fire. ——————————————Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 31, 201128 Comments
Write a two sentence post asking readers to “brief” me on whether Anthony Weiner has been “exposed,” with a video making a play on “weiner” and “boehner,” and I generate enthusiasm and comments. Write a multi-paragraph post about important issues of academic freedom and race politics in law...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 30, 201114 Comments
A denial no politician wants to have to make. From CBS News: I did not send Twitter crotch pic Someplace Bill Clinton was heard to mutter, “Well, Weiner’ll just have to win, then.” ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 29, 201132 Comments
I was in the car almost all day. Have the facts about Weiner’s tweet been exposed yet? ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!