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Why have universities become the least free places when they should be the most free?

Scenes of Communist Flags, Riots, and Violent Clashes With DHS During 'No Kings' Protests

Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap

German homeschooling family closer to deportation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 31 Comments

In February and March we focused on the Romeike homeschooling deportation case, DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling: The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German...

Tom Cotton asked

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 0 Comments

Tom Cotton, running for Senate to unseat Mark Pryor in Arkansas, held a blogger telephone conference today. I sat in on it, breaking my usual policy of sitting in a hermetically sealed room with the drapes drawn and the lights out avoiding all human contact. All someone...

The Savage of Sbarro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 19 Comments

On this date in 2001, Hamas bombed the Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. 15 people were killed, including 7 children. The bombing was celebrated as a great victory for Palestinians, including by Palestinian university students. Ahlam Tamimi, the women who led the suicide bomber to the location, was...

The best customer service experience of my life

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 15 Comments

Dear Roger Ailes -- Here's what you need to do...

Belligerent Design

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2013 39 Comments

From Foxfier: at a family gathering in central Oregon I noticed this car parked at our hotel and couldn’t believe the walking cliche; while I snapped a couple of pictures, a man walked up and said “hey, at least let me wash it before you take...

Howard U. Appoints Ibram Kendi to $3 Million Endowed Chair Position

Connecticut Might Issue Grad Student Loans to Offset Trump Limits

Study Finds Most Popular U.S. Graduate Degrees Not Worth the Money

UPenn Celebrates 'Gender Equity Week' With Safe Sex Trivia Night

Leftist Hero Cesar Chavez Erased From Colleges Across the Country

Faculty Book Club Selection at Portland State U. Highlights ‘Awful Scourge of White People’

MAD About Him

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 14 Comments

Some good stuff in the Tip Line (which is more of a reader open forum than just for "tips"). H/t to JCClarke for the link I used in this tweet today: https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/365561974257508352 And this tip from Bruno Lesky shows how the fight against progressive propaganda is taking...

Email service reportedly used by Edward Snowden abruptly shuts down

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 08, 2013 27 Comments

Well, this was a bit of mysterious news today. Apparently, the owner of Lavabit - the same email service reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden to contact human rights groups last month - has decided to shut down its operations in order to avoid...

Hillary will run for President, but only if the People demand it!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 44 Comments

That seems to be how this thing is going to develop. Private citizen Hillary is just going about her private business, helping establish the pantsuit as cultural icon and just chilling. The rebranding thing is really hard work. All the while, hapless fall-guy John Kerry travels the...

Obligatory: Shake Up At Fox News (Reader Poll on new line up)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 35 Comments

Obligatory. Sweeping the internets, based on Drudge exclusive, not yet confirmed by Fox News: If true, it would mark a shift away from opinion coverage as we approach 2014-2016. If, that is, Hannity is out. https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/365538102619549696 This doesn't exhaust all the possibilities, but includes the ones that came to...

Judge refuses to let Hasan lawyers drop out of case

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 08, 2013 12 Comments

The Fort Hood shooting trial resumed Thursday after the judge refused to grant a request from Nidal Hasan's standby defense attorneys to drop out of the case. The attorneys argued Wednesday that Hasan’s strategy in court thus far has demonstrated that the defendant – who...

Pallywood on the Nile

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 9 Comments

The pro-Morsi protest that almost was: With an iron will, the People of Egypt will stand up to the military junta. Here, you troops, here is your Zionist-loving tear gas canister back at you! Our women! Look what they did to our women! Oh Lord, we will not...

Media Matters to declare victory over Limbaugh regardless of reality

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 13 Comments

"Even if Limbaugh wins in the end, he loses."...

Branco Cartoon – Priorities USA

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 08, 2013 13 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...

Brave Bravado: Bradley Manning supporters volunteer to serve his prison time

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 08, 2013 11 Comments

knowing full well they never will....

Almost heaven

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2013 8 Comments

From KK: Taken in Princeton...

Lawrence O’Donnell still claiming Zimmerman suspicious of Trayvon Martin’s skin color

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2013 47 Comments

"skin color is what aroused George Zimmerman’s suspicions"...

Defense lawyers: Hasan wants to get death penalty, so let us off case

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 07, 2013 21 Comments

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,...