Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

In the wake of the pathetic and distorted American coverage of the attack on our Libyan embassy and the subsequent death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, I wrote: American Journalism Has Been Officially Outsourced. The stories from international sources proved to be far more...

I am often asked why I remain a registered Democrat, despite my decidedly fiscal-sanity oriented independent streak. In part, it is how I can effectively fight the "left-right" political paradigm that is being used by the elite media and politicos to divide us, in order to...

Of the 22 candidates in the race for Jesse Jackson Jr's vacated congressional seat (IL-2), 17 Democrats and 5 Republicans, only one candidate is speaking out against the Chicago machine. At a January 12 candidate forum, Republican candidate Paul McKinley set the crowd alight as...

I'm crushed for time, as are the other authors. Sometimes that happens. Maybe I'll have something more later this afternoon, maybe I won't. Until then, keep each other informed. Update 6:15 p.m. -- 25 comments with lots of good content, maybe you don't need me after all....

This is a follow up to my post yesterday about Aaron Swartz. Patterico has the full details and documents. It's somewhat complicated.  I'll try to summarize Patterico's research briefly. On Friday, the day Swartz committed suicide, papers were filed in his federal criminal case which reflected a possibly significant evidentiary...