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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2013 49 Comments

Legal Insurrection Version 1.0 was the old Blogger template. Version 2.0 was the custom designed Wordpress template initiated in June 2011. This Version 2.1 is a redesign of the home page to accomplish the following: 1. Featured Posts. Adding the ability to keep featured posts on the home...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 13 Comments

Been away all week at a conference in Orlando. Thanks to Mandy and other contributors for covering. Remember, there may be a partial shutdown of LI on Monday morning, for "maintenance." What did I miss? Update: The Washington Warrens! ...

Posted by David Gerstman on October 20, 2013 14 Comments
Last year the big technology news was how President Obama's re-election campaign used technology to beat Mitt Romney. This year's big technology news is the failure of the introduction of Obamacare's healthcare exchanges. https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/390835631493898240 Last year, even before the election, President Obama's IT operation got noticed. A June 2012 article in Politico asserted:
The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign’s 2012 digital operation — from data mining to online organizing — reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could impact the outcome of a close presidential election.

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 1 Comment

Several websites with the Qatar (.qa) domain extension have been restored to normal after being disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army this weekend. The hackers targeted the Qatar Domains Registry and altered DNS records for several high profile domains, according to Softpedia, then defacing pages...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 29 Comments

A town council in England has taken down promotional circus posters after a complaint from one woman - in a town of 28,000 - who happens to have a fear of clowns, according to the Daily Mail. A council has removed posters advertising a circus following...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 12 Comments

Remember all those "Baby on Board" yellow signs back in the day? From J: the bumper sticker we've been waiting for, re this ridiculous trend. Spotted in Charlottesville.  ...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 3 Comments

The mayor of a small town in central Pennsylvania who is running unopposed for a second term is now telling voters not to vote for him. After missing the deadline to remove his name from the ballot, Mayor Bob Wiser decided that he wants to call...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments

Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book "Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice ."  The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments

Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on Men? Is George Galloway a disgusting...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 19, 2013 7 Comments

With both houses of Congress passing the budget deal, and the Tea Party being smeared by both parties, I wanted to give my Legal Insurrection friends some reasons to have hope and a reason to focus locally. Many of these reasons can be found in Ballotpedia, an...

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