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Kulaks Beware: Mamdani Orders Public Hearings To Shame "Ripoff" NYC Landlords

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction

I don’t know how much more of this Utopia I can take

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 15 Comments

From John: Found this gem whilst delivering mail in a large Democrat-run city in Connecticut. I guess if you're always on the road to Utopia, technically there's still hope. ...

Hey China, only we can attack The NY Times

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 29 Comments

There are Times that we need to stick up for The NY Times. Whatever we have said about The Times, we don't regret. But we stand with The Times when it gets hacked by China: For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York...

Me or We: Stanford study concludes self-interest wins out over society’s

Posted by Anne Segal on January 31, 2013 7 Comments

A study entitled "In the Land of the Free, Interdependent Action Undermines Motivation" published this month from Stanford University researcher MarYam Hamedani concludes that appeals to community motivation, what they call "interdependence," are less compelling than independent behaviors when addressing social challenges. In other words, if you're...

How Republicans got clobbered in tech in two images and a few links

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 43 Comments

From a highly informative post, Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis at Red Mass Group: This post is about technology, but is written for a non-technical audience. You may think you know what happened with the technology of the Obama and Romney campaigns because of what...

Exhibit A as to why we needed Ted Cruz in the Senate (Update: Exhibit B — Chuck Hagel)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 38 Comments

One of the great frustrations the past several months (years) is completely inarticulate leadership on the Republican side. The "fiscal cliff" was just another typical debacle in failed ability to explain ourselves. Compare almost any press conference or speech or other communication by almost any Republican...

Conservative Legal Group Urges DOJ Probe of Top Research University Over Alleged Illegal DEI Practices

Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can't Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000

Brown University Killer Recorded Video Confessions After Shootings

Rider University Creates $2M ‘Hope’ Fund to Help Students Pay Tuition as it Faces Cuts, Layoffs

CU Boulder Prof Claims Trump’s Venezuela Action Shows U.S. is ‘Fascist Authoritarian Regime’

U. Houston Replacing Women and Gender Resource Center With Family Office

This week in anti-Israel lawfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments

David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I'm posting today's sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George Bisharat (who...

College Insurrection Night on Canto Talk

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 31, 2013 1 Comment

I am delighted to let Legal Insurrection readers know that my College Insurrection compatriot, Aleister of American Glob, will be on BlogTalkRadio.com's Canto Talk program tonight (Thursday, Jan. 31st) at 7 pm Pacific/9 pm Central/10 pm Eastern Standard Time (click here for link). It is my...

“and then a roll of duct tape came out”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 25 Comments

I wonder what the three masked intruders planned on using the duct tape for with this woman they found alone at home. And note that they brought the duct tape with them. She pulled out her gun and shot one of the three masked intruders and...

Heller case attorney: NY 7-round limit “clearly unconstitutional”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 37 Comments

On January 29, 2013, I attended a discussion between Alan Gura, the attorney who successfully argued the Heller v. D.C. and McDonald v. Chicago 2nd Amendment cases in the Supreme Court, and Cornell Law Professor Michael Dorf. Gura was invited by the Cornell Law Federalist...

Grocery chain banning all products marketed to children with cute cartoon characters

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 41 Comments

A Washington, D.C., area organic grocery store chain is banning all food items marketed to children with cartoon characters, according to a report on Food Navigator-USA. MOM's Organic Market founder Scott Nash called using cartoon characters on items like cereal boxes or snacks "sleazy" and...

Branco Cartoon – He the People

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 30, 2013 8 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 ...

Survival of the biggest brought to you by big government

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 20 Comments

Daniel Blatt at Gay Patriot has a very perceptive observation about how massive regulatory intrustion ostensibly on the side of the little guy actually has the result of helping the biggest corporations who are the only ones able to handle the onslaught, Big government means...

Israeli airstrike hits targets on Syria-Lebanon border

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 10 Comments

There are reports that the Israeli airforce conducted an overnight airstrike on targets along the Syria-Lebanon border. Although the Israel Defense Forces have declined to confirm, sources say that the targets may have been trucks carrying anti-aircraft missiles being transported to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Lebanese...

Hunkering down for Term 2, GDP Edition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 40 Comments

Remember the cheery pre-election economic news? That was then, this is now. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the third quarter boom-boom days have turned into the fourth quarter bust: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the...

Supporters distract from Benghazi with familiar Hillary narrative and an animated GIF

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 15 Comments

Hillary Clinton continued to get the meme treatment this week with columnist Zerlina Maxwell's posting of a series of GIFs, or animated pictures, that instruct how to deal with "mansplainers." The GIFs used footage from the Benghazi hearings to take emphasis away from the content of...

Announcing ElizabethWarrenWiki.org

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 32 Comments

We are pleased to announce the launch of Elizabeth Warren Wiki (ElizabethWarrenWiki.org), the most comprehensive source of information and documentation with regard to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. The site originally was conceived, days before the 2012 election, as The Elizabeth Warren File, a place where...

Occupy Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked

Posted by Anne Segal on January 29, 2013 9 Comments

A series of Occupy twitter accounts as well as the Occupy Sandy facebook account were hacked Tuesday evening, with the hackers tweeting out messages like "OCCUPY IS OVER. IT WAS FUN. #SORRY" and "OCCUPY IS OVER." The affected twitter accounts included @OccupyWallSTNYC, @OccupyTogether, @OccupyChicago, @USUncut, @OccupyArrests, @OWSUnionSquare,...