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Equal Protection Project Joins Asian-American Community Standing Against Reverse-Discrimination Of NY 'Equal Rights Amendment'

Sinwar's Death - Closure and Prayers for the Hostages

Inside the world of polling with Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Reports -- Episode 12: Legal Insurrection Podcast

Coulter on Stossel shows foolishness of Fordham’s cancellation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 29 Comments

Ann Coulter appeared on the John Stossel show, and the video is getting a lot of attention. There was a vigorous back and forth on a variety of issues. The students in the audience were libertarian, sharing many of the social values of modern liberals without...

Banking Analyst: “Elizabeth Warren’s Preposterous Grandstanding”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 32 Comments

Thomas K. Brown, a banking industry analyst and investor, writing at BankStocks.com, makes a point similar to what I made in my post, Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery, that Warren's Banking Committee YouTube performance was pure political grandstanding without substance or legitimate regulatory purpose. As with her...

Update: Hating Breitbart returns in May 17 dvd release, screening in NYC confirmed

Posted by Anne Segal on February 22, 2013 3 Comments

There is good news for those of you who were unable to see Andrew Marcus's excellent Hating Breitbart documentary, released late last year. It has just been announced that the movie will be released in theaters and on DVD and video-on-demand on May 17. After I...

Mideast Media Sampler 02/22/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on February 22, 2013 7 Comments

WAJ Note -- As mentioned yesterday, David produces an almost daily Mideast Media Sampler newsletter, which we will be running at LI. It is a great way to keep up with media reports about the Middle East. --------- 1) One last Hagel post In the Hagel Pinata, Marc Ambinder...

It’s impossible to guess where The New York Times now finds racism

Posted by Joel Engel on February 22, 2013 43 Comments

Wow. Just...

Florida Public Universities Reworking General Education Courses Amid Concern Over ‘Woke Ideologies’

New Hampshire Girls Soccer Team Forfeits Game Against Opponents With Trans Player

Footage From Anti-Israel Protests at Cornell Refutes Claims They Were Peaceful

Pace University Holding 'Social Justice Week' With Emphasis on 'Equity'

Jewish Harvard Divinity Student Writes of 'the Betrayal of Campus Progressivism'

UConn May Cut Dozens of Majors

How I stopped worrying and learned to love the sequester

Posted by David Gerstman on February 22, 2013 11 Comments

A recent Washington Post editorial, The blame game over sequestration concludes: Meanwhile, Mr. Obama seems content to warn of dire cutbacks in everything from naval operations to firefighters and to accuse the GOP of risking them to protect the wealthy. The Republicans denounce the sequester as Mr. Obama’s brainchild (though...

Quoting Rick Perry

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 5 Comments

From Ben: On the left coast this little cultural tit for tat has been developing for a couple years. First there was So Cal. Meaning Southern California. As in, that's So Cal. Then Nor Cal for Northern. And now we have No Cal with the the state of...

Republican Paul McKinley: “The Chicago Machine is panicking”

Posted by Anne Segal on February 21, 2013 13 Comments

Robin Kelly, one of the leading Democrats running in the congressional special election primary to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., is under fire this week after it was revealed that an internal investigation by the State Treasurer's Inspector General recommended she be disciplined. In response to this...

Like I said

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 27 Comments

this morning, Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013. Rush says it this way, For the First Time in My Life, I Am Ashamed of My Country: ...

Oh, Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 24 Comments

It's stuff like this, Rick Scott’s Big Reversal: Governor Rick Scott expressed his support this afternoon for expansion of Florida’s Medicaid program, describing the decision as a choice between “having Floridians pay to fund this program in other states while denying health care to our citizens...

ElizabethWarrenWiki.org nominated for #BlogBash award

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 10 Comments

It's hard to believe it's only been about three weeks since we launched ElizabethWarrenWiki.org. The goal was, and remains, to bring together in one place the wealth of research conducted during the Senate campaign by numerous blogs and newspapers on Elizabeth Warren's background, and then to update and expand...

British MP George Galloway storms out of debate when finds out opponent is Israeli

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 26 Comments

Galloway's ugly anti-Israel face revealed once again...

Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 23 Comments

On the very short drive to work this morning, I heard an interview on local AM 870 radio with the Tompkins County town administrator. The radio host kept trying to scare everyone about the Sequester cuts, repeatedly asking how it would affect people in Tompkins County. The...

Branco Cartoon – Frankenquester

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 21, 2013 11 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 ...

David Gerstman aka @Soccerdhg joins Legal Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2013 8 Comments

If you were up at 5:44 a.m. Eastern this morning (I wasn't) you would have been there at the very moment when David Gerstman's first post at Legal Insurrection went live, I said, “Hi.” She said, “Yeah, I guess I am.” You may have known David...

I said, “Hi.” She said, “Yeah, I guess I am.”

Posted by David Gerstman on February 21, 2013 22 Comments

The "Hi" in the title should clue you in, this is my welcome post. I'm David, the newest blogger at Legal Insurrection. For those who don't know me, I used to blog as Soccer Dad. After I retired from blogging at the end of 2010, Prof Jacobson...

Across party lines

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2013 22 Comments

This infographic was forwarded to me by a reader. I thought it was pretty good. It picks up on a theme I have written about before, Finding common ground in limited government — I am the NRA and EFF. Source: Government Bullies: 5 Ways Americans are Bullied by...