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NY Equal Rights Amendment Ballot Initiative "sets up ... racial retribution and favoritism under the guise of 'dismantling discrimination'”

Video Shows Hezbollah Terrorists Injured by Pagers, Walkie-Talkies in Iran

Pandemonium at CBS News After Journalist Pushes Back on Anti-Israel Author Ta-Nehisi Coates

Another immigration worker union comes out against Gang of 8 bill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2013 3 Comments

The Obama administration has turned the immigration laws into a bigger joke than they already were, through administrative decisions not to enforce the laws. Obama unilaterally created rules allowing so-called "Dreamers" to stay under certain conditions, and no surprise, 99.2% of those applying are getting approved. That policy...

Resist we must

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2013 4 Comments

I meant, "we much." From Max, whose wife took this photo not in Montana, but while visiting her mom in Maine. ...

Uzbek national indicted in US for terrorism

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 19, 2013 11 Comments

Highlights Growing Threat of Online Recruitment...

State of Denial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 18 Comments

This is pretty funny. WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years. “Right now, many of you are angry at the government,...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/19/2013 – The Kurdish Gambit

Posted by David Gerstman on May 19, 2013 2 Comments

Erdogan ♥s Ocalan? Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times: The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see as serving...

University of Southern California Hosting 'Demonic' Drag Show Called 'Drag Me to Hell'

University of Alberta Hires New Provost Fellow in ‘Decolonizing Policies’

Pomona College Suspends Students Who Occupied Building While Demanding Divestment From Israel

Chinese Students at U. Michigan Charged After Allegedly Spying on Military Base

Faculty at Mount Holyoke College Told to Report ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Incorrect’ Pronoun Use

The Trend Towards Political Neutrality at Colleges is Real

Obama was just joking about IRS audits, not sending signals

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 13 Comments

Oh come on, all you. Really. How could anyone think differently? Anyone? Buhler? John Kass, IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way (h/t @bryanjacoutot): I didn't understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old bosses. Now there are...

Al-Jazeera runs then deletes anti-Semitic screed by Columbia Univ. Prof. Joseph Massad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 28 Comments

Massad is just the tip of the anti-Israel academic iceberg...

On #Benghazi, question may be “What did Obama do, and when did he do it?”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 25 Comments

There is a desperate attempt to dismiss Benghazi as a big nothing. Based on what we know already, there is a lot of "there there" showing that there we multiple levels of defalcation before, during and after the killing of our Ambassador. But there are numerous open...

Are conservatives getting scroogled at Google News?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 19, 2013 24 Comments

As most Legal Insurrection readers are avid news consumers, I bet many wonder why there are so many "low information voters". Perhaps Google is to blame. Take a look at their top news stories when I checked yesterday: Now, compare this to Bing News and its top...

black·board (/ˈblakˌbôrd/) insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 9 Comments

Take the fight to them every place you can. From SGLawrence, taken in Woodstock, NY (not actually the place where the Woodstock concert was held, that was in Bethel): Hi Professor Jacobson. While in Woodstock, N.Y. this past week, I came across a large Chalkboard that invites...

Saturday Night Card Game (Chris Matthews evolves from race card to WTF card on Obama-gates)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 25 Comments

It started with the usual defense, it's all about racism (h/t Hot Air) But wait, maybe ...

Obama’s 2nd term is unhappy in its own way, so who cares if the scandals are “Watergate”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 9 Comments

I'm with Tolstoy....

Was Celia Roady, who asked the planted question, a victim of the IRS?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 10 Comments

At congressional hearings yesterday, it was revealed that the IRS planted a question at an ABA meeting in order to give Lois Lerner of the IRS the opportunity to get ahead of the pending Inspector General Report and make it seem as if the IRS had voluntarily...

Tea Party IRS Protests May 21

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 17 Comments

Forwarded to me by a reader. Sounds like a good idea to me. (details and locations at the link) On behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, we are calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS’ complete abuse of...

Elizabeth Warren’s low-information student loan spear

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

You remember Upworthy, the epitome of low-information in support of Obama and progressives, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals. They have maps which demonstrate The high cost of low information voters. I need to stop checking in...

Ed Markey’s passive aggressive campaign

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 18, 2013 7 Comments

Democratic Congressman Ed Markey apparently is hoping that being super-liberal in Massachusetts is enough to defeat Republican Gabriel Gomez in the Special Election ...

“Two chickens, three goats and a rabbit” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 2 Comments

This week college campuses looked relatively sane compared to Washington, D.C. I emphasize "relatively." Occupy brings “two chickens, three goats and a rabbit” as part of takeover of U. California farm Swarthmore’s descent into madness Louisiana State Hosts “Lavender Graduation” For Homosexual Grads Six Degrees of Separation: Stanford University – Where...