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Texas Senate Race Heats Up as Cruz Hammers O’Rourke on ‘Extreme’ Second Amendment Position

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 02, 2018 16 Comments

Senator Ted Cruz's re-election campaign is finally in full swing. Cruz's Democrat opponent is a young Congressman from El Paso, Rep. Beto O'Rourke. A seasoned campaigner, Cruz and his campaign crew are already playing hardball.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/parkland-survivor-david-hogg-calls-advertiser-boycott-laura-060711852.html?.tsrc=fauxdal

Fox News supports Laura Ingraham against “agenda-driven intimidation efforts”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2018 38 Comments

It appears that Fox News will not give in to the David Hogg, Media Matters and #TheResistance driven faux outrage over Laura Ingraham's mild rebuke of Hogg as someone who "whines." That faux outrage has been used to intimidate advertisers into fleeing Ingraham's highly-rated program. Fox News co-President Jack Abernathy just released this statement (via L.A. Times):

Mainstream Media Suddenly Concerned About Media Bias, Sinclair Broadcasting Edition

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 02, 2018 13 Comments

We are truly through the looking glass with this one. Mainstream media outlets and left-leaning sites are freaking out over a media montage compiled by Deadspin. In the montage, anchors from local news outlets nationwide use the same script (furnished by the Sinclair Broadcast Group) to bash media-driven fake news stories.

Supreme Court reverses 9th Circuit, rules for officer in police excessive use of force case

Posted by Andrew Branca on April 02, 2018 51 Comments

The Supreme Court just handed down a police use-of-force decision, Kisela v. Hughes (pdf.)(full embed at bottom of post), the most notable characteristic of which is the gutting of a typically nutty Ninth Circuit court of appeals ruling and a typically silly dissent by Sotomayor (joined, unsurprisingly, by Ginsburg). The legal issue in play is whether a woman who was shot by a police officer should be permitted to sue that officer personally.

CNN’s Jim Acosta Badgers Trump About DACA During White House Easter Egg Roll

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 02, 2018 17 Comments

The 140th annual White House Easter Egg Roll took place Monday morning. The egg roll is a tradition dating back to 1878. During the Easter Egg Roll, The White House lawn is filled with children participating in various activities from coloring to bunny hopping.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbuXPFVD0xY

Trump: “DACA is dead because the Democrats didn’t care or act”

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 02, 2018 29 Comments

Monday morning, Trump unleashed a round of tweets blaming Mexico and the Democrat party for contributing to America's Dreamer crisis, picking up a thread he began Sunday on the same subject. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the controversial policy created extralegally by President Obama, was rightly kicked to the legislature to legally codify protections for individuals who were brought to the U.S. as children without any legal immigration status.

Chinese space station breaks up over South Pacific

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 02, 2018 9 Comments

We recently reported that an out-of-control Chinese space station with ‘highly toxic’ chemicals onboard was hurtling toward Earth. There was speculation that it might crash into lower Michigan during the first week in April.

Branco Cartoon – Stormy News Network

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 02, 2018 5 Comments

Resistance-rated...

https://www.facebook.com/IngrahamAngle/photos/a.946774555470114.1073741827.946279088852994/952020121612224/?type=1&theater

If Fox News cancels Laura Ingraham, it might as well close the network

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2018 75 Comments

There is an all out assault in progress trying to drive Laura Ingraham off television and radio, led by Parkland student and newly-minted media star David Hogg. Ingraham is a target, superficially, because she mocked Hogg as a whiner in a tweet after he publicly griped that several colleges had rejected him. On the scale of internet insults, saying that someone is "whining" doesn't even register it's so mild.

23 Cornell Law Profs support suspended male student in Title IX court appeal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2018 31 Comments

The lack of a fair and due process for men going through campus sexual assault disciplinary processes has been a frequent topic here. We long ago warned of these Kangaroo courts for men on campus, resulting from a directive from the Obama Department of Education. That directive has been jettisoned by the Trump Education Department, but many schools still cling to it because ideologically the campus culture presumes that there is a "rape culture" and that men are aggressors.

Democrats fear a citizenship Census question

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 01, 2018 26 Comments

The usual suspects on the left are melting down because the U.S. Department of Commerce has reinstated the citizenship question to the 2020 census. You know the drill, this move is racist, xenophobic, tyrannical, and even, according to California's attorney general, illegal. The left is frantic because they are worried that illegal aliens will not fill out the 2020 census and as a result Democrat-held urban areas—where large numbers of illegals are concentrated—will lose out to more rural areas. Rural areas tend to be more conservative and to vote Republican.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRGhOcnmChI&t=7s

The Annual Easter Showing of The Ten Commandments

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 01, 2018 11 Comments

Happy Easter to our Legal Insurrection family. You may recall that we reviewed the ratings bonanza that was the Roseanne revival, which owed part of its success to airing something other than social justice pablum. However, the success should not have been a shock to ABC, as its programmers have always relied on the appeal of the biblical epic of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 version of The Ten Commandments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cL1RVqVqoI

With Middle Eastern Gangs Rioting in German Streets, Berlin “Concerned by Situation in Gaza”

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 01, 2018 15 Comments

While the German police struggle to take back control of their streets, the Merkel government has been "concerned by the situation in Gaza." The German Foreign Ministry called for "resumption of negotiations to find a solution that would be suitable to all people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea." This week, two large-scale riots took place in Hamborn district of Duisburg, a small town some 50-minute ride from the north-western German city of Cologne.

https://twitter.com/aflores/status/979695729445715968

“Caravan” of Central American Migrants Heading Through Mexico for US Southern Border

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 01, 2018 65 Comments

In an attempt to overwhelm U. S. Customs and Border Protection, over a thousand Central Americans are marching through Mexico toward the U. S. border. The goal is to cross our border by seeking asylum, crossing illegally, or by exploiting the ongoing "catch and release" policy.