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Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Lawyer Among Three Arrested in Violent Restaurant Attack on Hebrew-Speaking Diners

Replacing History With Wildlife: The Suicidal Insanity of Anti-Western Ideology

What we do and don’t know so far in the Navy Yard shooting

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 16, 2013 48 Comments

The FBI identified the deceased gunman in today’s Washington Navy Yard shooting as Aaron Alexis. The agency released photos of him and is asking for the public's assistance in providing any information concerning Alexis. The reporting on today’s incident is still very fluid – in fact,...

Palin firefighter copyright lawsuit Complaint — no proof of “fundraising” off photo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2013 67 Comments

Another media meme is created. Plus -- some legal lessons....

Former NSA and CIA Director says Gmail preferred by terrorists

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 16, 2013 12 Comments

Terrorists prefer Gmail as their email provider of choice, according to the former director of the NSA and CIA. From the Washington Post: Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden stood on the pulpit of a church across from the White House on Sunday and declared Gmail...

U.N. Chemical Weapons Report on Syria Released — Surface-to-surface rockets fired from multiple-rocket launchers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2013 25 Comments

Chemicals delivered using surface-to-surface rockets over wide area in several locations....

Kerry-Lavrov deal also a big win for Iran’s Syrian War

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2013 4 Comments

A lot of attention is focused on Jihadist elements fighting in Syria, and the more "secular" Assad regime. The most underreported aspect of the civil war is that it's not just a civil war, it's a grand power-play by Iran to keep control of Syria as...

U. North Texas Cutting up to 70 Programs in Effort to Trim Deficit

Carnegie Mellon U. Hosts Anti-ICE Panel With Far Left Activists

Conservative Student Magazine at UW-Madison Repeatedly Thrown in the Trash

Missing U. Alabama Student Found Dead in Spain

Education Secretary McMahon Threatens SJSU Federal Funding for Title IX Violations

Vanderbilt Law Prof Explains the Challenge of Getting More Conservatives Into Higher Ed

Obama’s Use of Force Bluff

Posted by David Gerstman on September 16, 2013 34 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 09/16/2013: Never really intended, Putin gave him a way out....

NJ high school sports association to ban “f-word” and “bias-language” trash talk

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 16, 2013 31 Comments

New rules will apply in NJ to football games and other high school sports that utilize referees, aimed at eliminating unsportsmanlike trash talk. Players and attendees will now be required to abide by expanded restrictions on certain conduct and speech, and in some cases, use of specific...

Branco Cartoon – Twerkovsky’s 2013 Overture

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 16, 2013 9 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 is Cartoonist A.F.Branco...

Is Buzzfeed the new home for viral conservative listicles?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 18 Comments

Buzzfeed seems to engender pretty strong feelings all around. Mostly the criticism was from the right during the election, but I'm seeing grumbling from the left lately as well. I cautioned last February not to underestimate BuzzFeed Politics, which is an emerging force in news and uses cats to maximum effect. Despite my tongue-in-cheek post, 5 Signs BuzzFeed May Have Peaked, I'm not really seeing the engine slowing down. They have a lot of dollars, very talented staff, and they have me pegged. One thing that has caught my eye recently was that Buzzfeed lured in conservative readers through its Community section. Yes, conservative readers. It must be some kind of Sun Tzu military theory: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"]

(Buzzfeed: Some of our best friends are Conservative)[/caption] I first noticed that when two of the best listicles I've seen from the conservative side showed up at Buzzfeed. The first, 16 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Life Before Birth by National Right to Life on August 27, was highlighted here National Right to Life hits home run where it counts, Buzzfeed:

Doctors, doctors everywhere, but not a one to see you (under Obamacare exchange coverage)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 30 Comments

Death Panels by a thousand cuts....

If Assad were slaughtering cats, would we be more concerned?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 25 Comments

Jeffrey Goldberg makes several points similar to the points I made in my post last night, The Deal: In order to remove the threat of Bashar Assad, we have to save Bashar Assad. Goldberg writes, New Syria Agreement Is a Big Victory. For Assad: A couple of...

Blaming Zionism for lack of two-state solution all that’s fit to print at NY Times

Posted by David Gerstman on September 15, 2013 11 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 09/15/2013...

Abenaki tribe wants no part of Middlebury 9/11 flag-grabbing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 21 Comments

On Friday we asked: Which was worse: Middlebury 9/11 flag-grabbing or Oberlin racism hoax? It arose from the actions of Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury student, who felt compelled to destroy a 9/11 memorial on campus by trashing thousands of small American flags, each one representing a...

The Russians know how to live

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 17 Comments

James Rosen of Fox News sketched the image below while waiting for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to appear before reporters. Rosen tried to parlay it into an exclusive interview, but no luck, via AP: Then Fox News television correspondent James Rosen reached over and handed Lavrov a...

An abortion or a gun?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2013 19 Comments

Which are you more likely to survive? Another from Bill in the St. Petersburg area: Guns and abortion Guns may kill people but abortion definitely does...

The Deal: In order to remove the threat of Bashar Assad, we have to save Bashar Assad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2013 20 Comments

Mandy covered this morning the outline of the "principles" agreed upon by the U.S. and Russia for Syria to end its possession of chemical weapons. The deal, announced as we were waking this morning, is being spun a variety of ways. It holds the promise of removing...

Continued support and well wishes for Jim Hoft

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 14, 2013 6 Comments

As many Legal Insurrection readers know by now, Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) has been in the hospital for some time. He's undergone several procedures to date and still has a long road to recovery ahead of him. Jim is a friend to many of us in...