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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

Anti-coal activist granted bail over hoax that sparked Whitehaven Coal share plunge

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 23, 2013 7 Comments

An anti-coal activist was granted unconditional bail Monday after appearing before an Australian magistrate over his role in a hoax that caused a major coal company's share price to briefly plummet. Jonathan Moylan, an activist with the environmental group Frontline Action on Coal, was charged by...

How Europe came to view Hezbollah as a Terrorist Organization

Posted by David Gerstman on July 23, 2013 8 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 7-22-2013...

Sowell on justice, traditional and cosmic

Posted by New Neo on July 23, 2013 33 Comments

In the aftermath of the Zimmerman trial we see outrage and protest among those who think Zimmerman is guilty of something or other, even if the criminal justice system couldn't quite put its finger on it. "He racially profiled Trayvon"---although there's no evidence whatsoever of racial...

Stand Your Ground: The “New” Self-Defense Doctrine That’s 136 Years Young

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 23, 2013 76 Comments

Much has been made lately of the self-defense legal doctrine of Stand-Your-Ground, mostly for political purposes unrelated to any actual legal application of the doctrine (for more on this, see here: Stand-Your-Ground: Gun Control Zombies Exploit Grieving Black Community). [caption id="attachment_59829" align="alignnone" width="500"] Reverend Al Sharpton protests...

Problems Pile Up for San Diego Mayor Filner in Sex Scandal

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2013 16 Comments

There was a major development in San Diego today, as notorious civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred just finished a press conference with her client, a woman charging Mayor Bob Filner with sexual harassment: Irene McCormack Jackson, Mayor Bob Filner's former communications director, has filed a sexual...

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

This Night In Jerusalem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2013 30 Comments

Today, I had the great pleasure to meet three of the Israeli bloggers we link to and write about, on my road to Jerusalem. We took the ride from Tel Aviv to Petah Tikva, one of the earliest Jewish towns, where we met Anne from ... (take a guess). Anne lives on a nice, quiet street. [caption id="attachment_59868" align="alignnone" width="491"]

(Petah Tikva, Israel)[/caption] We lunched at a nice restaurant near the Intel center in Petah Tikva: [caption id="attachment_59824" align="alignnone" width="493"]

William A Jacobson and Anne In Petah Tikva

(Me and Anne in Petah Tikva)[/caption] We then headed on the road to Jerusalem, stopping in to see Adam Levick of CiF Watch, a blog devoted to taking The Guardian newspaper to task for its frequently distorted coverage of Israel.

Iran Demands Justice for Trayvon Martin

Posted by David Gerstman on July 22, 2013 16 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 7-22-2013...

Zimmerman briefly emerges from hiding to help rescue family

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on July 22, 2013 101 Comments

ABC News reports that the first public sighting of Zimmerman since his acquittal occurred late last week while he was pulling a man from an overturned pickup truck on the side of the road. Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of...

Turkish Court Ruling Allows Gezi Park Demolition to Proceed

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 22, 2013 4 Comments

Demolition can move forward in Taksim Square's Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, according to an administrative court's ruling. From Hurriyet Daily News: An Istanbul administrative court has unanimously overturned a lower court’s stay of order ruling on planned construction on Istanbul’s Gezi Park, allowing the demolition of...

Branco Cartoon – 5 Copies For His Mother

Posted by A.F. Branco on July 22, 2013 17 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 ...

Don’t let “Motor City Madness” make you forget about California’s bankrupt cities!

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2013 21 Comments

Bryan Jacoutot ably explored the core reason for the Motor City's recently fiscal crash: unfunded liablities. As a former citizen of the Detroit area, I simply shake my head, as the city's race-based politics and poor business environment caused me to flee to the Golden State...

Detroit: all the way down the Telegraph Road

Posted by New Neo on July 22, 2013 17 Comments

Detroit's declaration of bankruptcy has been discussed in countless articles, both the how and the why of it. One thing nearly everyone agrees on is that it's been a long time coming. Just how long? Well, if you'd like a musical interlude, just listen to this...

Thanks to EBT cards, American welfare transforms into international family stimulus plan

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2013 18 Comments

Many of us were appalled, if not surprised, that the Tsarnaev family (including the suspected Boston bombing brothers and their parents) benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance upon their arrival to this country. Now, it looks like welfare beneficiaries don't even have to leave...

Gamer’s creative ‘resume’ should spark inspiration for job hunters

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 21, 2013 20 Comments

I was looking for a little lighter fare to close out a Sunday night, and this was one was sitting unread in my newsfeeds. It made me smile. I hope more like this 19 year old have as much passion as they try to navigate...

Abbas Refers to Deadly Terrorist’s “Pure Soul”

Posted by David Gerstman on July 21, 2013 13 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 7-21-2013...

Congressional Catch-22: Measuring the Success of Congress

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 21, 2013 24 Comments

When did we start measuring the "success" of Congress based on the number of laws it passes? Seriously. I'm asking: when? I don't really remember the moment or the year or even the decade, but at some point, Americans got into our heads that the...

End of accounting tricks offers harsh realities for Detroit, others

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on July 21, 2013 35 Comments

Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing, the largest of any municipality in U.S. history, has drawn a lot of attention to the sustainability problem that has long been facing many state and local governments. While the bankruptcy has been attributed to a number of factors, the majority of...