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Social Justice Warriors Have Finally Come for the Comedy Classic ‘Animal House’

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 01, 2018 54 Comments

The 1978 classic film 'Animal House' turned 40 years old last weekend, if you can believe it. Since its release, it has stood the test of time as the college comedy which defined the genre. Even when it was originally released, it was considered provocative, but back then America had a sense of humor.

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

Trump Demands Sessions Shut Down Russia Probe ‘Right Now’

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 01, 2018 43 Comments

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately.

Sen. Mark Warner’s Memo Calls for the Government to Regulate Internet

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 01, 2018 16 Comments

Axios obtained a memo written by the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, that plans for the government to takeover the internet and regulate digital platforms. From Reason:

To save American trust in "our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets," it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including "comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation" of the sort enacted in the E.U.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0jTJq_VfS8

Man Suspected of Murdering Brian Terry Extradited From Mexico to U.S.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 01, 2018 20 Comments

GREAT NEWS! The man accused of murdering Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010 was extradited from Mexico to the U.S. Suspect Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes allegedly used a gun from Operation Fast & Furious, a gun-running scheme established under former Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice. He will face charges of first degree murder and have an arraignment in Tucson, Arizona.

Photographer of starving polar bear admits losing control of “climate change narrative”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 01, 2018 24 Comments

It used to be that in traditional science you would start out with a hypothesis, gather data through testing, then form a theory. When it comes to social-justice-based science, however, you formulate a narrative and proceed to distort the data to fit that narrative.

Gender Studies Institute at Stanford Hosting Far-Left Journalist to Discuss Conservative ‘Bigotry’

Study Claims SAT Reading Section is ‘Less Demanding’ Than in Past Decades

Connecticut Teacher Escorted Out of School for Refusing to Remove Crucifix From Classroom

TPUSA Members: UT Tyler Attack Reflects Growing Campus Hostility Toward Conservatives

UT Austin Funds Graduate Student Research on ‘Reproductive Justice’

Texas Tech Regents Eliminate Several Race, Gender Studies Courses

4 Years Ago – One of the Greatest Cartoons Ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2018 14 Comments

On July 31, 2014, Legal Insurrection cartoonist A.F. Branco posted what was, by far, the most viral cartoon he's done for us, Crash of Civilization. It took place as the 2014 Gaza conflict was in full swing. Here were some of our posts in the days before the cartoon, including:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuEXdbl-wkw

Let it be so! UN Secretary General says the UN is running out of money

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 31, 2018 37 Comments

[WAJ NOTE: This is the 29,000th post at Legal Insurrection!] Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General for the UN is concerned that the international governing body is alarmingly short on cash.

Is it time to re-open the birthright citizenship debate?

Posted by New Neo on July 31, 2018 100 Comments

Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution, as Fuzzy Slippers has previously discussed on this blog. Anton is quoted as having said this on Tucker Carlson's show:

Mike Rowe on the Disconnect Between Elites and Everyday Americans

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 31, 2018 25 Comments

Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro has launched a series of long form interviews called the "Sunday Special." Prior guests included Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Adam Carolla. One of his recent episodes featuring Dennis Prager talking about God and the Bible was particularly fascinating and I recommend watching them all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtHUL_FX0I

Royal Navy Rescued Manchester Bomber in 2014 From Libyan Civil War

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 31, 2018 13 Comments

Reports have emerged that the Royal Navy rescued Salmen Abedi, the man who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last year, a few years ago from the Libyan civil war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG6ek9Zuits

German Police: 126,000 Immigrants Set for Deportation Have ‘Disappeared’

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 31, 2018 10 Comments

An estimated 126,000 illegal immigrants set for deportation from Germany have slipped through the fingers of immigration authorities, German Federal Police office (BKA) disclosed. German police hope that some of these illegal immigrants may have voluntarily left the country, German newspaper Die Welt reported. The scenario of illegal immigrants “self-deporting” themselves out of Germany is most unlikely. It is more probable that many of these fugitives have acquired new identities and are drawing welfare from the state. As past Legal Insurrection reports indicate, it is very easy for asylum seekers to get multiple identities in Germany thanks to the bureaucratic chaos resulting from Chancellor Angela Merkel's open door migrant policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc#action=share

Authorities on MH370: ‘We cannot exclude the possibility of a third person or third party or unlawful interference’

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 31, 2018 17 Comments

Malaysian authorities concluded in their final report that they cannot determine the cause disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which happened four years ago. This has led to the resignation of Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the head of Malaysia's civil aviation authority.

California wildfires claim six lives and 19 are still missing

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 31, 2018 5 Comments

The wildfires are still raging in California, and six people are reported dead and at least 19 are missing. Tragically, the dead include a great-grandmother who was trying the save the lives of her two great-grandchildren. They were killed in the blaze that is burning near Redding, which has been named the Carr Fire.

The bodies of Melody Bledsoe, 70, and her great-grandchildren, James Robert, 5, and Emily Roberts, 4, were recovered from Bledsoe's home in Redding, relatives said.

https://twitter.com/Jtruzmah/status/1024040611731582976

Gaza: Two PFLP terrorists killed when rocket they were firing exploded prematurely

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2018 38 Comments

This could become a series. Call it the Palestinian Terrorist 'Work Accident' Series:

Analysis: Bernie’s “Medicare for All” would cost $32.6 Trillion

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 30, 2018 26 Comments

A study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University predicted that Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan will cost $32.6 trillion over ten years. One more thing -- this is a "conservative" estimate, which means the cost could be a lot higher.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/raising-theybies-letting-kids-choose-their-gender-1281053251894?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Sorry, #NoMoreBoysAndGirls, Biology is Not on Your Side

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 30, 2018 51 Comments

I'm still having a difficult time wrapping my head around this one. There exist parents that are attempting to raise their children as gender neutral, thus allowing them to choose their own genders later in life. "Theybies" is what this new parenting technique is called.

Attorney Andrew Branca to Critique “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story”

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 30, 2018 37 Comments

It's hard to believe, but my first post here at Legal Insurrection was on June 5, 2013. Naturally, it was a post covering the murder trial of George Zimmerman, after Professor Jacobson noticed some of my comments on his own posts and kindly invited me to contribute to the site. I ended up watching every moment of the trial and reviewing every piece of evidence, and wrote about the trial and surrounding events rather extensively.