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Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Lawyer Among Three Arrested in Violent Restaurant Attack on Hebrew-Speaking Diners

Replacing History With Wildlife: The Suicidal Insanity of Anti-Western Ideology

I said the same thing as Jon Stewart, but for different reasons

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 14 Comments

When Jon Stewart is good, he's really good. And he's really good in this clip about IRS targeting of the Tea Party and the AP phone records. I found myself shouting the same bleeped out words, but for very different reasons. ...

Was Jake Tapper played by White House through selective leak of just one email?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 28 Comments

ABC News source stands by reference to State Dept in leaked Benghazi talking points emails -- White House defenders get the controversy they want (Update - Stephen Hayes stands by his reporting as well)...

Gosnell gets life sentence, no death penalty

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 33 Comments

Gives up appeals in plea deal...

Sweet Irony: Obama admin obsession with Tea Party comes back to bite it

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 14, 2013 22 Comments

Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better: A rebel group of engaged activists, derided and harassed by authorities, becomes the obsession of a powerful political machine, leading to the demise of ...

Eric Holder recused himself from AP phone subpoena issuance, and from investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 16 Comments

Eric Holder just ended a press conference. As previously reported by Fox News: Attorney General Eric Holder is recusing himself from the investigation into leaks made to The Associated Press, Fox News has learned. Also, as CNN reported, Holder previously had recused himself from consideration of issuance of...

U. North Texas Cutting up to 70 Programs in Effort to Trim Deficit

Carnegie Mellon U. Hosts Anti-ICE Panel With Far Left Activists

Conservative Student Magazine at UW-Madison Repeatedly Thrown in the Trash

Missing U. Alabama Student Found Dead in Spain

Education Secretary McMahon Threatens SJSU Federal Funding for Title IX Violations

Vanderbilt Law Prof Explains the Challenge of Getting More Conservatives Into Higher Ed

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/14/2013 – The Syria Puzzle

Posted by David Gerstman on May 14, 2013 0 Comments

1) Syria considerations Last week former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller wrote Syria is not Iraq. The gist of his argument is that he trusts President Obama but shouldn't have trusted President Bush. It's a silly argument. However, as Dexter Filkins reports,...

Would all the reporters who savaged Bob Woodward now like to apologize?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 8 Comments

Woodward was prescient about the Obama administration's treatment of the press...

The ignored DOJ scandal — anti-free speech codes on campuses

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 9 Comments

Amidst all the scandals exposed these past two weeks, one is being ignored by the mainstream media and most of the conservative media as well -- the actions of the Department of Justice and Department of Education to force colleges and universities to impose anti-free speech codes. We...

Dems find their IRS-Tea Party Scandal savior — look, Citizens United!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 15 Comments

Repeat after them, "Citizens United made the IRS do it"...

Nowhat?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 22 Comments

Can't figure this one out. Spotted in Ithaca. ...

IRS officials in D.C. in on Tea Party targeting, Cincinnati office leaked tax docs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 24 Comments

The whole fish is rotten, but the head doesn't know?...

How do you ask a journalist to be the last journalist to lose credibility defending Obama?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 42 Comments

Obama DOJ secretly grabs AP phone records -- We are all Tea Partiers now....

Verdict — Gosnell found guilty on three counts of murder

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 26 Comments

Also involuntary manslaughter in death of patient Karnamaya Mongar...

Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch file suit to obtain David Gregory gun law violation documents

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 16 Comments

Judicial Watch, a leading government open records organization, announced today that it has filed suit on behalf of Legal Insurrection to obtain documents regarding David Gregory's violation of the District of Columbia gun laws and the investigation which led to the decision of the District of...

Branco Cartoon – IRS Targeted Grilling

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 13, 2013 4 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 ...

Now we can dare call the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups a conspiracy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 27 Comments

The notion that a few "low level" local IRS employees went rogue is false. The timeline appendices to the Inspector General's report, released by ABC News, detail a far reaching conspiracy to target Tea Party groups with the knowledge of numerous supervisory and compliance persons within...

IRS Tea Party targeting scandal too big to ignore

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

Consider this a follow up to my post IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media. Mediaite, which really is an invaluable resource for videos of what happens on television news, has several videos of commentary from non-right wing pundits concerning the...