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KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

There is a "Popularized Conception of Birthright Citizenship, Which May Not be Accurate"

Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused

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...

Florida Removes Sociology Requirement From General Education Due to Concerns About Bias

Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Overwhelmingly Democrats

Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants

Boxer and Influencer Jake Paul Says Charlie Kirk Would Have Been a President

Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt U. Invites Planned Parenthood Lawyers to Discuss Racial Justice

Pro-Trans Student Group at Brown Holds Rally to Criticize 'Anti-Trans' Laws

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

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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,...

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"...

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...