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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Saturday Night Card Game (Colin Powell’s deep vein of ignorance about what’s happening in the Republican Party)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 53 Comments

It's sad to see Colin Powell, appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State by Republican Presidents, continuing to attack Republicans as racist: While continuing to identify as a Republican, former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday criticized the GOP for a series of...

Gun Appreciation Day — Hour wait at Jacksonville Gun Show

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 27 Comments

Today is Gun Appreciation Day. We aren't following it the way we did with Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day or Empty Chair Day. But a reader did to go the Jacksonville Gun Show today, and sent in the following comment, photos and video. One hour wait to get in the gun show! Also,...

9017 plus 518

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 7 Comments

That's how many Twitter followers we have as of this writing for Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection, respectively. If you are not on Twitter, you need to be. It's easy, you can use the same fake name you use here. Then you can follow @LegInsurrection and @CollegeInsurrec. While...

Energy independence within reach if we’re allowed to reach it

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 19, 2013 12 Comments

In College Insurrection, I recently covered a story showing that North Dakota universities were about the only higher education institutions in the country expecting increased funding. These revenues are courtesy of the state's recent oil boom. This is one example of how oil shale may prove...

Why won’t Elizabeth Warren just do a Lance Armstrong on the Cherokee controversy?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 22 Comments

Why won't she just come clean? Go on Oprah, admit that the claim to be Cherokee was a mistake and that she knew it at the time or at least had serious doubts, but make like it's not important to who she is as a person. Her...

Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

“The Usual Sex, Diversity, and Nutty Profs” Week at College Insurrection (Plus Guns!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 1 Comment

I'm definitely seeing a trend here. Sex Massive student ‘orgy’ centerpiece of campus “Sex-Ed Week” U. Missouri offers “Sibling Incest in Theory and Literature” Female Students Turning to “Sugar Daddies” to Pay for School Are Some Liberal Academics Attempting to Normalize Pedophilia? Students File Sexual Assault Complaint at UNC UNC Student: Sexual...

Protest, but which one?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2013 4 Comments

My first reaction was that the sticker was a pro-2nd Amendment protest. But on reflection, I'm thinking it's anti-gun in reaction to the Newtown shooting. From commenter Markinct: Seen in Hartford, CT on the 15th of January...

I hate having to do this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 36 Comments

Told ya so: And please don’t tell me that we’ll give in on taxes now and make our stand on spending and entitlements over the national debt limit — ain’t gonna happen. Ain't gonna happen: Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Republican whip, said in Houston Thursday that...

Federal Appeals Court upholds Wisconsin union law

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 11 Comments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has upheld the Wisconsin union law that was the subject of massive protests in 2011, including a takeover of the State Capitol and widespread threats and acts of intimidation. The decision was unanimous in most respects. ...

Cult of Personality

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 46 Comments

Keith Koffler at White House Dossier has it exactly right, Obama to Create Mass Organization Devoted to Obama: President Obama will remake his presidential campaign into a massive new movement devoted to supporting his agenda, an unprecedented move that creates a brand new political organization devoted...

Controlling the narrative through language — “gun control” out, “gun violence” in

Posted by Anne Segal on January 18, 2013 17 Comments

As part of "turning loose" his massive campaign apparatus on a number of policy fronts, President Obama appears to be directing a language overhaul as part of his gun-control agenda. In a recent press conference with Joe Biden, The Atlantic's Molly Ball observes that neither President Obama nor...

Plutocrats against middle-class prosperity on nimby parade

Posted by Joel Engel on January 18, 2013 32 Comments

As soon as I heard the word fracking for the first time, I thought it was an onomatopoeia of Yoko Ono's "singing." Now comes confirmation (via WaPo): Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon spoke out against fracking Thursday during a tour of natural-gas drilling sites...

“Great grandma was a Cherokee”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 13 Comments

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people with high...

Obama’s interference in Israel’s election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 24 Comments

You don't need to be an expert in Israeli politics to understand that Israeli voters don't like it when their leaders fight with an American president. That's nothing new, and it's not new in the age of Obama. That's the context in which you need to understand...

Branco Cartoon – 2nd Amendment Remedy

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 18, 2013 16 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 ...

Obama Phone!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 14 Comments

From "Loyal LI reader J from Illinois" Saw this the other day and managed to snap a picture. I can't tell whether the "free government phone" banner is with the cheap smokes place or the cell phone place, but I find it hard to imagine the cell...

Anonymous staunch 2nd Amendment supporters?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 40 Comments

I told you on Monday, when I announced that I was joining both the NRA and EFF that The Tea Party movement has more in common with the hacktivist community than either side wants to admit. That common ground is not expansive. The Tea Party movement certainly is...