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Left Wing Group: Use 'Jury Nullification' to Resist Trump DOJ

Complaint: Suspect With IED at Gracie Mansion Swore Allegiance to ISIS

VIDEO - Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders One-Year Later

Circus posters removed after complaint from woman with fear of clowns

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 29 Comments

A town council in England has taken down promotional circus posters after a complaint from one woman - in a town of 28,000 - who happens to have a fear of clowns, according to the Daily Mail. A council has removed posters advertising a circus following...

Baby on Board, too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 12 Comments

Remember all those "Baby on Board" yellow signs back in the day? From J: the bumper sticker we've been waiting for, re this ridiculous trend. Spotted in Charlottesville. ...

Anatomy of how a racism lie spread half way around the world

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 48 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game...

Boy Scout leaders who toppled ancient Utah rock reportedly receiving death threats

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 46 Comments

Two men associated with the now viral video of them toppling a rock formation in Utah's Goblin Valley State Park say they are receiving death threats, according to the Associated Press/ABC News. Two Utah Boy Scout leaders who purposely knocked over an ancient desert rock formation...

“America’s path to the gallows”: inevitable?

Posted by New Neo on October 19, 2013 40 Comments

Despite frustration, good things can still be accomplished....

University of Providence in Great Falls, Montana, Declares Financial Exigency

Local Officials Crack Down on Annual 'St. Fratty’s Day' Party at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

U. Oregon to Start Handing Out Abortion Drugs Next Fall

Northwestern U. Gets 'C' Grade on Campus Antisemitism Report Card

Duke University Employees Donated $1.6 Million to Democrats

Opposition to Epic Fury on Twitter/X Being Led by Non-American Accounts

Mayor of Pennsylvania town tells voters to vote for someone else

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 3 Comments

The mayor of a small town in central Pennsylvania who is running unopposed for a second term is now telling voters not to vote for him. After missing the deadline to remove his name from the ballot, Mayor Bob Wiser decided that he wants to call...

How much influence do partisan news shows have on political views?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments

Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book "Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice ." The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

BDS movement distilled – when Israeli soldiers not raping Arab women is racist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 21 Comments

BDS rhetoric is so extreme that even some left-wing Jewish critics of Israel are worried....

“Yes, Yes, Yes!” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments

Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on Men? Is George Galloway a disgusting...

Ballotpedia shows why this November’s elections are important

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 19, 2013 7 Comments

With both houses of Congress passing the budget deal, and the Tea Party being smeared by both parties, I wanted to give my Legal Insurrection friends some reasons to have hope and a reason to focus locally. Many of these reasons can be found in Ballotpedia, an...

I guess I still don’t understand Texas

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 18 Comments

From Bill: Seen in Newport Beach, CA Hopefully, this represents the spearhead of an invasion....

Mother of teen accused in bullying case arrested on unrelated charges

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 17 Comments

The mother of a 14 year old girl charged with stalking in connection to the bullying case of Rebecca Sedwick, who later committed suicide, was arrested Friday on unrelated charges of child abuse and child neglect. From WTSP-10News: The mother of one of the girls facing charges...

Partial shutdown Monday morning

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 14 Comments

No, not the gubmint. Legal Insurrection, for scheduled "maintenance." Starting about 4 a.m. Eastern on Monday. If all goes according to plan, the outage will be short and in any event, over no later than 8 a.m. If all doesn't go according to plan, can you say "healthcare.gov"? This...

HHS declines to testify before House committee on Obamacare rollout

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 27 Comments

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on October 24th to address the issues surrounding the health care law’s rollout. The committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that she appear before the committee to respond...

Tyrants if left to their own devices

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 62 Comments

You may have heard. There's a petition at MoveOn.org, promoted by Daily Kos, to have conservative members of the House arrested for sedition. And the petition has tens of thousands of signatures, with real people feeling bold enough to put their real names on it. Not just...

Remembering who the Real Boss is in Iran

Posted by David Gerstman on October 18, 2013 5 Comments

The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei still calls the shots....

Middlebury College suspends student in 9/11 flag grabbing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 34 Comments

We previously wrote about Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury College student who, with non-student activists, removed a flag memorial on 9/11 this year remembering the victims of the World Trade Center attack, claiming solidarity with the Native American Abenaki tribe: My intention was not to cause pain...