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My Take: "We Came Within An Inch Of The Country Coming Apart"

"GARM" Is New Version Of Old Tactic To Starve Conservative Media of Revenue To Silence Dissent

Strategery: Top Dems Reportedly Backing Off Removing Biden - Giving Up or Regrouping?

Jesse Jackson Jr. Criminal Plea Deal (copy)(Update — charges against wife too)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 11 Comments

A criminal Information was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. this afternoon in which Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged with one count of criminal conspiracy, and forfeiture of assets was sought. The Information alleged that approximately $750,000 of campaign funds was misappropriated for personal expenses,...

Victims who have names

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 50 Comments

One of the saddest stories you will read is the story of Jennifer Morbelli, who died recently along with her unborn daughter during a very late term abortion in Maryland. The story originally was reported by Jill Stanek. In a series of posts, Robert Stacy McCain reported on...

Senior Iranian General killed in Syria/Lebanon by ???

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 22 Comments

Another one of those things that makes you go hmmm...

Jesse Jr to implicate wife in plea deal arrangement?

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her. Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several...

Your cancer research funding at work (attacking the Tea Party)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 33 Comments

What "medical research" will look like in the age of Obamacare...

American U. Has a $33K Graduate Certificate to Learn How to be an 'Antiracist' School Leader

Petition Calls on Duke U. to Drop 'Unscientific' Racial Agenda in Health Care System

St. Cloud State Grad Sues to Stop Mandatory Student Fee That Supports Liberal Activist Group

Progressives in Higher Education React to Trump Assassination Attempt Just as You'd Expect

Apologies for Angry Comments...

Republican National Convention Expected to Address Antisemitism on College Campuses

MSM meme — Elizabeth Warren is nicely bold while Ted Cruz is offensively aggressive

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 17 Comments

Look at how dreamy Morning Joe treats Elizabeth Warren's "grilling" of bank regulators (it hardly was a grilling, just a single inane gotcha question she repeated over and over for dramatic effect): Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Now contrast that...

Kaliforniya

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

No water, no money, no reason to stay. From Mike: I sleep a little better knowing that not everyone in California is a loony leftie. I took the attached photos on Rt. 152 between Fresno and Los Banos in December. This is part of the Central Valley...

Race to the bottom for Dems running in #IL02

Posted by Anne Segal on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

Last night I attended another candidates forum for the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having attended quite a few by this point, my main takeaway is that the people of the Second District have a sorry, sorry...

Hagel fails to beat filibuster on day of more troubling revelations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 13 Comments

The Washington Free Beacon reported today about a speech Hagel gave in 2007 -- as reported at the time by one of his supporters -- that the State Department had become an "adjunct" to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Hagel supporters are fuming, but he was a...

For $57,232 per year you get what at Brown University?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 14, 2013 21 Comments

The bubble stretches ever thinner...

Prisoner X updates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 11 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about Prisoner X. I'm not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it's clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts were...

The gathering storm

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 18 Comments

Tax Prof is out with the year-end 2012 Law Prof Traffic Rankings. We continue to climb, but beware the gathering post-election blog traffic storm. Think Sandy meets Snowzilla. But for now, it's blue skies. (Keep in mind that these numbers are based on public Sitemeter readings, and since...

Branco Cartoon – Econocide

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 14, 2013 9 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

NY Times digital trolling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday's magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how Obama...

Rand Paul Targets Brennan’s CIA Nomination over Drones

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 14, 2013 28 Comments

Tuesday night, Rand Paul (the freshman senator from Kentucky) gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union address, calling for cutting corporate taxes in half and slashing trillions in federal spending. Paul has been very busy. Today, the Washington Times reports that Paul...

Gimme a fracking break

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 27 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's Criminalize Fracking post. Gimme Coffee is an Ithaca coffee roaster and something of an institution. For a mere $4 or thereabouts, you can have quite a good latte. The coffee happens to be excellent, but it comes with a...

American hero Chris Kyle laid to rest

Posted by Anne Segal on February 13, 2013 27 Comments

Former Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who was killed at a Texas gun range on February 8, was laid to rest Tuesday at the Texas State Cemetery. On Monday, 7,000 people attended a memorial service in his honor at the Cowboys Stadium. Many people are saying Kyle...