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Intersectionality is all the Rage - Just Ask "Turtle Island Liberation Front"

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Systematic Scholarship Discrimination In Illinois Public Universities Challenged By Equal Protection Project

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...

Students and Faculty at UC-Berkeley Unhappy About Suspension of Anti-Israel Lecturer

Erika Kirk Says Turning Point USA Will Continue College Campus Debates

U. San Francisco to Employ AI in Admissions Process

U. Minnesota Profs Enter Third Year of Study on ‘Antiracist Parenting’

Credit Rating Agencies Issue Unfavorable Outlook for Higher Education in 2026

Instructor at British School 'Likened to a Terrorist' for Showing Videos of Trump in Class

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...

Is there a “David Gregory Clause” in the New York Gun Law?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 21 Comments

We have a Gun Class Project ongoing to try to unravel the 39-page gun law passed and signed into law this week. It is a very complicated Bill, to put it mildly. One thing I just noticed. There is a provision in the law which sounds a lot...

Gun Class Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 49 Comments

Embedded below is the text of the gun law just enacted in NY State. The underlined portions are new wording or sections. It's complicated stuff. I'll be reviewing it to try to figure out the answers to some popular questions -- such as what happens to current pistols...

Someone probably not concerned about the 10-round magazine limit (7 in NY)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 38 Comments

From The Providence Journal: "IPlead ThePiff" posed on his Facebook page with marijuana, money, a delivery guarantee -- and guns. "I don't talk," he wrote on one photo. "I let my guns sing and if a ...

“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual”

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

I did get a chance, on my voyage yesterday, to listen to this part of Rush's show (emphasis mine): RUSH: I'm gonna take a stab at answering my question. Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. To what end? Aside...

Those were the days

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 4 Comments

My friends, I thought they'd never end, you'd click and click, on Alan Grayson ads. From the email archives, Jim sent this along back in early December 2011. What a month. What a month. Heh, for those of you who know what I mean. ...

D.C. Atty Gen Irvin Nathan — “No other involvement with Mrs. Gregory than that one event”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 45 Comments

Late last Friday afternoon, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan released a letter determining not to prosecute David Gregory “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law.” After the letter was released, Legal Insurrection discovered that Attorney General Nathan had participated in a mock trial event at the Shakespeare Theatre...

Repugnant and cowardly

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 73 Comments

One of the things I missed today during my long drive was the White House calling the ad embedded below "repugnant and cowardly." I'll tell you what else is regugnant and cowardly, a Presidential statement made by exploiting children on stage as a sympathy...

What did I miss?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 61 Comments

Seven hours in the car because the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations decided this morning to forget how to drive, so there were spinouts on Route 146 which had me sitting in a virtual parking lot as I headed towards...