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Day two in the trial of the accused Fort Hood shooter came to an unexpected halt Wednesday morning, after standby defense attorneys for Nidal Hasan requested to either be reinstated as official counsel or be removed from the case entirely.  The attorneys filed a motion,...

He's running for Senate in Arkansas in a bid to unseat Democrat Mark Pryor. I know almost nothing about Cotton or the Republican field.  Who else is expected to run in the Republican primary? This ad just released by Pryor attacking Cotton with the usual Democratic hyperbole and misdirection, tells me at least Pryor is worried: Expect Cotton or whoever the Republican nominee to hang Obamacare around Pryor's neck: Pryor plays pretty fast and loose with the facts:

It is perhaps inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between the  recently completed murder/self-defense trial of George Zimmerman in Florida and the just beginning travails of self-defense shooter Merritt Landry in New Orleans. Indeed, I've already begun to do so myself (see "Zimmerman Redux: The Breaking...

From Amy: It's been a while since I've found a car worth photographing, but I finally spied this one in the parking lot of Costco in Parker, CO. The back window was also filled with patriotic stickers. It renews my faith in humanity to see the occasional conservative...

Of course, the two cases bear no resemblance at so many levels. But Oprah can't help herself, and debases the memory of Emmett Till by comparing Till's whistling at a white woman and subsequent beating death to the violence perpetrated by Trayvon Martin upon George Zimmerman who acted...

Hey folks, I just wanted to take a moment to drop a note sharing the news that Professor Jacobson has kindly invited me to continue blogging here at Legal Insurrection, and I have gratefully accepted. Of course, my frequency of posting won't be at the two-to-three-mega-posts-per-day rate...

As the sentencing phase in the court martial of Bradley Manning continues, a military judge has ruled that his maximum possible prison sentence will be reduced to 90 years. From Reuters: A U.S. military judge reduced potential prison time for Private First Class Bradley Manning to 90...

A former military chief in Turkey was sentenced to life in prison and more than a dozen others received lengthy prison sentences after a court handed down verdicts Monday in a long-standing case that has divided the country. From the New York Times: A Turkish court sentenced...

I wish I had put this list together myself. But the credit goes to John Nolte of Breitbart.com on Twitter. [View the story "Top Ten Things Media Found More Important Than al Qaeda" on Storify]...

It was a refreshing sight to see Monday evening when this video on Erin Burnett's Out Front program on CNN caught my attention.  What better way to depict the series of seemingly never ending deflections on important questions from White House press secretary Jay Carney than...