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Kamala Picking Walz: "This is doubling down on leftism and doubling down on anti-Israelism"

Van Jones: Harris Appeases 'Anti-Jewish' Democrats by Picking Walz

Race- and Ethnicity-Based Scholarships At Fordham University Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 20 Comments

Related to this, via Mediaite: In a soon-to-be-released interview with The New Republic, President Obama reportedly laments the negative influence Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can have on the congressional debate over various pieces of legislation. The president told TNR editor Frank Foer and owner Chris Hughes...

Star Wars economics in three easy lessons

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 21 Comments

Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the "Star Wars Tax Rule": The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that underscore...

Immigration crime about to see its payday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 35 Comments

Question of Day -- Are 2nd Amendment rights not equal to squatters’ rights?...

(In)Dependence Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 2 Comments

From Jeff in Massachusetts: I saw this bumper sticker and thought you might get a chuckle. It’s a little hard to read, but it says “Republicans believe that every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe that every day is April 15th.” ...

California Court: Prop 30 tax increase illegally put at top of ballot, but too late to do anything about it

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 27, 2013 21 Comments

I wanted to share with Legal Insurrection readers an example of ballot measure manipulation that was partly responsible for the November approval of one of the biggest take hikes approved by California in years. Cal Watchdog writer Katy Grimes has this report about a recent court...

Kamala Harris Running Mate Tim Walz Supports Free College for Illegal Aliens

Harvard Student Who Glitter-Bombed School President Faces Felony Charges

Penn State Student Facing Federal Charges Over Alleged Ties to ISIS

Conservative Students Score Legal Victory at Clovis Community College

Anti-Israel Student Protesters Preparing to Start Again in the Fall

Penn State Trustee Suing School to Gain Access to $5 Billion Endowment Records

Tonight is the first day of Hillary’s 2016 campaign, if she wants it

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 33 Comments

What better place to go than to the friendly 60 Minutes with the guy who owes your husband big time? Obama probably would have won anyway if Bill Clinton had stayed on the sidelines, but it would have been a lot tougher. Bill Clinton doesn't do anything...

Republican spelunkers for comprehensive immigration reform

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 31 Comments

Illegal is the new legal, but way cooler and more hip...

You’re just a tree falling in the forest, lady

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 26 Comments

And no one is going to hear you. I was going to link to a quite interesting post, with an excerpt, regarding the "Violence Against Women Act." The author, someone I had never heard of, writing at a website I never had heard of, made some excellent...

None?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2013 5 Comments

Not even for Kony? Or Mahmoud? or Kim? Saw this bumper sticker on my fortnightly visit to the library with the kids. Somehow I don't think the driver intends to make a theological statement as much as a political one. I think people who naively spout tripe like...

Saturday Night different strokes for the happy folks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 78 Comments

There's no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I was going to write about some "Neo-Confederate" idiocy by a pretend lawyer who happens to be quite obsessed with me over at the liberal blog Glenn Greenwald calls " a cesspool of unprincipled partisan hackdom." When you are a liberal blog and Glenn...

“Xena, Warrior Princess” makes great TV, but not sensible reality

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 26, 2013 55 Comments

The timing of the recent announcement from the Obama Administration that it would lift the ban on women serving in combat positions was fascinating. After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's responsibility dodging and Biden-esque responses to questioning by Senators yesterday, the White House needed a distraction...

2014 getting more interesting by the minute — Harkin out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 30 Comments

This makes things even more interesting -- via AP: Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says he will not seek re-election in 2014. The 73-year-old Harkin tells The Associated Press in an interview, “It’s just time to step aside,” because by the time he would finish a sixth term,...

Gender Studies Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2013 6 Comments

Did you know you could get an education at College Insurrection? Of course, it would be as useless as the education you get on most campuses, but at least it's free. Gender Studies is more than about sex: Men Not Allowed in Women’s Lounge at Michigan State U. Tennessee Considers...

Chicago anti-gun panelist compares crowd reciting Pledge of Allegiance to Nazis’ beer hall conduct

Posted by Anne Segal on January 26, 2013 34 Comments

Also inaccurately accuses veteran of seeking to take over the government by force and crowd of hurling racial insults...

Georgia on my mind

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 32 Comments

Here we go. Saxby Chambliss will not be running for reelection in 2014: Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss said Friday he will not seek a third term next year, expressing deep frustration with Washington gridlock that he doesn't see changing in a divided government. Chambliss, 69, rejected suggestions he...

Friday Night Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 30 Comments

What better way to end the work week than Newt beating up on an journalist, I mean Piers Morgan. Brings back such good memories. Via Hot Air, Newt suggesting that gun control hearings be held in Chicago: ...

Killing candidacies in the cradle

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2013 36 Comments

The Democrats are really good at it. They target Republicans early on for the strategy of crazy which was successful against the Tea party movement, a consistent blogosphere and media attempt to create a deadly public perception of a rising Republican star. We've seen this already in The “crazy-ing” of...