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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 26, 2019 32 Comments
Reports are circulating that former staffers of and a fundraiser for Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are urging her to drop out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary race.  Stating that she comes across as an "opportunist" and that her debate presence is "performative and obnoxious," the former staffers contend that she should drop out "graciously."

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Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 26, 2019 43 Comments
By now, Legal Insurrection readers have learned about the 'climate crisis'-infused stories related to the three weeks of wildfires within South America's Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon is known to produce moisture and humidity, making it relatively resistant to wildfires, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Instead, it seems that a combination of droughts, and ranchers and farmers taking advantage of the dry season to burn and clear land for cattle, are to blame.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2019 11 Comments
We always have had a "Reply" function in the comment section on the desktop version of Legal Insurrection. Now we have it on the mobile version.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 26, 2019 50 Comments
Dr. Allen Francis, the former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University, claimed that President Donald Trump "may be more responsible for many more million deaths" that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. He said these comments to Brian Stetler on CNN's Reliable Sources. Stetler did not push back. Instead, Stetler insisted he did not hear Francis's accusations.

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Posted by Andrew Pessin on August 25, 2019 6 Comments
Sometimes someone writes something that you wish you yourself had written. A few weeks ago I had just put the finishing touches on my new novel, Nevergreen, a “high-spirited, richly imagined” campus satire that is both “smart and hilarious” (IMHO), when I learned that debut novelist Scott Johnston was a week away from publishing a campus satire called Campusland that Kirkus Reviews described in the words I just quoted.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 25, 2019 60 Comments
In an ongoing war of words, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told European Council President Donald Tusk that he will go down in history as 'Mr No-Deal' if the European Union continues with its refusal to change the withdrawal agreement. The remark came after the European Council President, who head the EU's executive body, said that Prime Minister Johnson should accept the withdrawal agreement handed by Brussels to his predecessor Theresa May as he "will not like to go down in history as 'Mr No Deal'."

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 25, 2019 37 Comments
It is being reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is investigating an allegation that an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse, which looks to be the first allegation of criminal activity from space.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2019 15 Comments
Israel has attacked Iranian bases in Syria to preempt the launch of a squadron of bomb-loaded attack drones that were in the final preparations for launch. The planned drone attack was personally supervised by Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, according to the Israel Defense forces, which in an unusual move took to Twitter to announce the preemptive attack:

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 24, 2019 35 Comments
There's been a lot of noise surrounding Dr. Robert Epstein's research that suggested that Google manipulated a "rock bottom" minimum of 2.6 million votes toward twice failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. President Trump tweeted about it, the leftstream media went into "fact check" meltdown mode, and Democrats, including Clinton herself, parroted Google's claim that Epstein's report was "debunked."
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