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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

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,...

Jewish Voice for Peace seeks to divide and conquer support for Israel

Posted by David Gerstman on August 07, 2013 4 Comments

Devastating Report from NGO Monitor on the tactics of the "Jewish wing of the [Palestinian solidarity] movement"...

So tell me about Tom Cotton

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2013 17 Comments

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:

When Elizabeth Warren runs for President

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2013 41 Comments

We never have underestimated her...

The Cold War is now calling to ask for the 2012 election back

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2013 9 Comments

"the Cold War's been over for 20 years"...

Syracuse University Cutting Almost 100 Low-Enrollment Degree Programs

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

Merritt Landry Allies Developing Narrative of Innocence

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 07, 2013 64 Comments

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...

Mayor Bob Filner: San Diego’s gift from “low information voters”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 07, 2013 18 Comments

Rumors were flying the past few days about a dramatic new disclosure coming from another victim of sexual harassment by San Diego Bob Filner (Democrat). The tales were wrong...

Uncle Buck

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2013 5 Comments

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...

Oprah: Trayvon Martin = Emmett Till

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 73 Comments

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...

Andrew Branca to Continue Blogging at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 06, 2013 52 Comments

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...

Judge Reduces Maximum Potential Sentence for Bradley Manning

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 06, 2013 13 Comments

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...

Turkish Court Sentences Ex-Military Chief to Life in Prison

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 06, 2013 4 Comments

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...

Top Ten Things Media Found More Important Than al Qaeda

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 17 Comments

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]...

Jay Carney, Master of Deflection (video)

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 06, 2013 10 Comments

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...

Now Jeff Bezos gets to experience the joy of dealing with unions

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 34 Comments

"None of [Amazon.com's] 90,000 workers are unionized"...

Trial of Major Nidal Hasan starts today – gov’t still toes “workplace violence” line

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 06, 2013 21 Comments

Excerpts of a report from a December 2010 sanity board hearing of Major Nidal Hasan were released yesterday by the Fort Hood shooter to FOX News. The information, along with other documents recently released to the cable news network at Hasan's request, may offer a glimpse into...

“G-d bless Texas and Israel”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 8 Comments

From reader beloved2, while I was traveling in Israel late last month: Hey Professor in Israel; Texas supports Israel, the other lone star state. Our governor is the best kind of Zionist Christian. Spread the word . Snapped this photo at a cemetery. Very nice retired military couple concerned...