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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

IRS anti-Tea Party scandal gets real — senior IRS officials aware of targeting (Update – Chief Counsel knew and targets expanded to groups “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 59 Comments

This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some "low level" employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties' tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON (AP)...

Anti-Israel Prof. Noam Chomsky helped BDS get to Stephen Hawking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 27 Comments

If you think Stephen Hawking's decision not to attend a conference in Israel was a principled stand for academic or other freedoms, you can drop that notion. Hawking, as many have pointed out in the past few days, has attended conferences in the past several years...

How IRS targeting of Tea Party groups was exposed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 13 Comments

Mark Levin details the history of the fight to expose the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Via DailyRushbo via Right Scoop: ...

“Think As You Are Told” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 3 Comments

Lords of the Flies: Johns Hopkins pro-choice group tries to silence pro-life students using “harassment” policy Northwestern Latino student group says eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is racist Berkeley student govt calls for divestment from “United States Prison Industrial Complex” including, um, McDonalds Envelope with white powder...

Like a whole other, other country

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 13 Comments

Not Texas. Dear Prof. Jacobson, Well, the skies are blue, at least . . . After "One step away from #Gosnell," I figure we need our spirits lifted a bit, so I present the following, taken in Burns, Oregon, the other day. Some background: Harney County, Oregon, is 10,226...

Chicago Public Schools to Allow Bible College Students Into Teaching Program, Following Lawsuit

University of Evansville to Host Second Abortion-Themed Theatrical Event of School Year

Women's Basketball Team at Howard U. to Remain in Locker Room Rather Than Stand for National Anthem

Chicago Teachers Union Wants to Close Schools on May 1st to Protest Trump

Yale Student Columnist Argues Campus Keeps Peers in ‘Ideological Bubble’

College Religious Exemptions Bill in Utah Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns on the Left

The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 62 Comments

"I hoped I would never see this day, but I feared I would."...

Jay Carney attempts to throw CIA under the bus on Benghazi talking points

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 30 Comments

I'll post the video when available. (Wow, GOP Rapid Response got this video out really quickly) Here are some tweets as it took place:

Throwing CIA under bus never works, ask every prior President--> payback leaks
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 10, 2013

Carney: Should we have overruled the intelligence community?We relied on what they thought.Fighting words.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 10, 2013

"These were intelligence community talking points" -Jay Carney
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013

Really risky strategy of the WH to keep pointing fingers at the CIA
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 10, 2013

WH is playing w/ fire passing buck to the CIA on stuff like this, b/c intel community can only be kicked around for so long. #leaks
— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) May 10, 2013

Jay Carney has been trying to suggest that the CIA made all the edits. Now he admits they made the edits on suggestions from State & WH.
— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 10, 2013

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/10/2013 – Newseum honors Terror TV

Posted by David Gerstman on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

1) When is news not really news? The Newseum - a museum devoted to the news business - recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November. Newseum...

Branco Cartoon – Grab A Mop

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 10, 2013 7 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 ...

As IRS admits it targeted Tea Party groups, remember IRS is Obamacare enforcer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 25 Comments

A lesson also for blind faith in government to fairly enforce the Gang of 8 immigration provisions...

Benghazi leaks finally breaking the damn media dam

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 13 Comments

ABC News blows the lid off the lies of the Obama administration regarding Susan Rice's talking points. That lid already had been blown off by Stephen Hayes, but now it's in the mainstream media. Exclusive:The Benghazi talking points underwent 12 revisions, extensive edits from State. They are...

More on the bad economics of Elizabeth Warren’s student loan proposal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 15 Comments

Pitting Federal Reserve risk-free short-term lending to banks versus long-term risky lending to students was pure political demagoguery....

#OpUSA Fails Miserably But Succeeds in Uniting Israeli and US Cyber-Defenders

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

As expected, the #OpUSA campaign planned by hackers against US websites on May 7th turned out to be nothing more than mostly hot air. All the promises to “wipe the US off the cyber map” resulted in a small number of annoyance defacements, many of...

Senate Hacks Free Market with Bipartisan Support

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2013 29 Comments

As a citizen activist, I remember how thrilled we were with the results of the 2010 election, in which the Republicans made enormous gains that were suppose to protect the free market. Fast forward to 2013. The Senate has just approved the "Marketplace Fairness Act", legislation...

Why is Daily Kos so afraid of some speech competition from the Koch Brothers?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 25 Comments

The Daily Kos is reacting very hysterically to the mere possibility that the Koch Brothers might buy 8 Tribune Co. newspapers, including the L.A. Times. Kos has teamed up with SEIU and others to try to pressure the Tribune not to sell the papers to the...

Tunisian indicted in U.S. in connection with Canadian railway terror plot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 4 Comments

On April 22, 2013, we noted that a terror plot to derail trains headed for the United States was foiled, Canadian terrorist plot foiled — arrests made (Update – supported by al-Qaeda in Iran). The FBI made the following announcement of the indictment of a Tunisian, Ahmen...

Dear @Jerusalem_Post – this is why @TimesofIsrael is cleaning your clock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 8 Comments

Both The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel have great content. But I always go to The Times of Israel whenever possible. The Jerusalem Post must hate its online readers, or at least take them for granted, because getting to the content is a real fight. When...