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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 49 Comments

Embedded below is the text of the gun law just enacted in NY State. The underlined portions are new wording or sections. It's complicated stuff. I'll be reviewing it to try to figure out the answers to some popular questions -- such as what happens to current pistols...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 40 Comments

I did get a chance, on my voyage yesterday, to listen to this part of Rush's show (emphasis mine): RUSH:  I'm gonna take a stab at answering my question.  Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country.  To what end?  Aside...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 4 Comments

My friends, I thought they'd never end, you'd click and click, on Alan Grayson ads. From the email archives, Jim sent this along back in early December 2011. What a month.  What a month. Heh, for those of you who know what I mean. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 45 Comments

Late last Friday afternoon, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan released a letter determining not to prosecute David Gregory “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law.” After the letter was released, Legal Insurrection discovered that Attorney General Nathan had participated in a mock trial event at the Shakespeare Theatre...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 73 Comments

One of the things I missed today during my long drive was the White House calling the ad embedded below "repugnant and cowardly." I'll tell you what else is regugnant and cowardly, a Presidential statement made by exploiting children on stage as a sympathy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 61 Comments

Seven hours in the car because the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations decided this morning to forget how to drive, so there were spinouts on Route 146 which had me sitting in a virtual parking lot as I headed towards...

Posted by Anne Segal on January 16, 2013 10 Comments

Today, 8,000 bus workers and aides went on strike in New York City at 6a.m. this morning to protest the city's attempts to cut costs by putting their contracts up for bid to private bus companies. The last time school bus drivers went on strike...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 16, 2013 6 Comments

I would like to introduce the "Shrine of Flaming Capitalism's Product of the Month": The Destino. And flaming is a worthy designation indeed. The Destino is essentially a Fisker body over a Corvette Engine. Legal Insurrection readers may recall Fisker is a company that produces plug-in hybrid...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 16, 2013 48 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 5 Comments

Discovered in the email archives from November 2011, from frequent photographer Ulises: Dear Prof., I was in Philadelphia yesterday and ran into the OccupyPhilly crowd around city hall. This sign caught my attention, because it seems to have been left there from a Tea Party rally...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2013 58 Comments

What is wrong with this sentence? From The Daily News editorial cheering the draconian gun control law passed in NY State with no public discussion, no public debate, no normal waiting period, no time for Senators to read it, no likelihood of actually reducing crime, but great...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2013 11 Comments

The financial pressures of the internet. We have touched on that from time to time, including with regard to Andrew Sullivan's modified-paywall, Blogonomics and independence. There is an urge to do what the "absolute worst" designed website on the internet does, and load up with pop-overs and...

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 15, 2013 10 Comments

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Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 15, 2013 44 Comments

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...

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