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Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 28 Comments

California, you may have heard, is broke.  Really broke.  So broke that yesterday the Regents of the University of California began brainstorming what to do should additional revenues fail to materialize in the event Governor Jerry Brown’s pet initiative to raise taxes fails at the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 70 Comments

Well, that didn't work out so well. We cast aside Hosni Mubarak on a moment's notice without taking steps to give non-Islamist parties a timetable to organize an effective transition; we overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, teaching tyrants the lesson that giving up nuclear ambitions is a deadly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 19 Comments

of America by the time we take over. Taken in Deerfield Beach, Florida, during the week of the Democratic Convention: When you're not in Charlotte, serve as a troop reinforcement by turning yourself into a walking bumper sticker decrying the "Republican War On America." Notice the shopper's use of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 82 Comments

An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 13, 2012 14 Comments

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has announced their strike will continue into Friday--despite an offer from Jesse Jackson to mediate--after CTU President Karen Lewis said she's "optimistic, but we're still hammering things out." At the heart of the standstill is accountability: merit pay, the evaluation process,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 1 Comment

Each day this week we will focus on one of the Upstate New York races included in Operation Counterweight.  As mentioned before, Upstate NY is critical to holding the House, as several seats were gained by Republicans in an otherwise blue state in 2010.  There...

Posted by Joel Engel on September 13, 2012 52 Comments

Four “senior Obama Administration officials” held a press briefing yesterday regarding the attacks in Libya and Egypt.  For reasons we can only divine, they remain unnamed in the official transcript. Near the end, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston asked “whether there was any specific recent intelligence indicating that...

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 13, 2012 15 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 29 Comments

And who knows, maybe it was: "A former very senior Republican insider, who requested anonymity so that he could speak freely, told us that he has serious doubts as to Mitt Romney's precipitous decision to criticize the President, and that Romney's actions were his 'Lehman moment'...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 17 Comments

I'm very pleased to welcome long-time reader and commenter (CassandraLite) Joel Engel as a contributor at Legal Insurrection. I've met Joel twice, and one thing led to another, and here we are. You may have noticed Joel's first post earlier today, 2016 May Bring Good Things.  I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 12, 2012 10 Comments

I just want to know how to plan out the next few weeks. Via Boston Globe: Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — amid growing unrest from party activists and leaders — is facing pressure to make a major shift in her television advertising with a new series...

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 12, 2012 37 Comments

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