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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Reaction to Prop 8 oral argument (Audio added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 36 Comments

The oral argument just concluded. The audio will be posted later. Update -- Audio is here. Transcript is here. Expect an avalanche of spin from various pundits -- as if the spin matters. I'll link to numerous sources which I deem on the low-end of spin meter. ...

Prop 8 day at Supreme Court

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

Today at 10 a.m. is the argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, also known as the California Proposition 8 case. Tomorrow is argument in the Defense of Marriage Act case. It's hard to believe that this day has arrived. We have been covering Prop 8 almost since...

Cyprus loco Euro-problem gone wild

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

I was reviewing World War I history with my son yesterday. The global-scale conflict started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914. This event set in motion a series of diplomatic incidents that led inexorably to the...

Two out of three ain’t bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 17 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee: Parking lot, Premier Orthopaedics, Nashville tn ...

Monday Night Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 24 Comments

Just whatever you want. It's going to take really, really big breaking news for me to post anything. UPDATE by Leslie Eastman: As I read this, I suddenly realized why it was going to take "big breaking news". So, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish Professor Jacobson...

CUNY Prof Under Fire for Allegedly Making Racist Comments on Zoom Call

Texas Tech Cancels Event Organized by Group Promoting Late-Term Abortions

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk Murder Case

North Dakota State Urges ‘Safe Zone’ Trainees to Sign LGBT ‘Ally’ Pledge

UT-San Antonio Consolidating Race and Gender Departments

Villanova U. Prof Says Academia Should be Used as a 'Trojan Horse' for Socialism

The real estate market’s demographic problem in “the most depressing” chart ever

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 9 Comments

How low is low? Has real estate bottomed out? Via @TheBubbleBubble, some advice about not thinking the real estate bubble is done imploding: I'd have no business whatsoever buying houses until this demographic tsunami is well underway, which years from now: businessinsider.com/matt-kings-mos…— Jesse Colombo(@TheBubbleBubble) March 25,...

FWIW – Kagan 2009: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 26 Comments

That's the statement Elena Kagan made back in 2009 when she was going through confirmation proceedings to become Solicitor General (emphasis added): 1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by...

Nanny Statist of Mind

Posted by Anne Segal on March 25, 2013 28 Comments

Bowdoin Professor Sarah Conly's "Three Cheers for the Nanny State," published in the Sunday New York Times, has done a great service to those of us who think Mayor Bloomberg is alone in his attempts to gloss over limited powers and the role of government,...

Branco Cartoon – Amazing DisgRace

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 25, 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 Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

As the Cyprus Turns like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 17 Comments

Okay, mixed references here. There was initial euphoria in the markets that a deal was made to steal depositors' money, but now the reality is sinking in, Rand flat as Cyprus euphoria wanes: THE euphoria surrounding the Cyprus bail-out fizzled out in late trade on Monday, causing...

The strategery behind NY elimination of 7-round magazine limit via budget

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2013 6 Comments

We noted before that New York was going to abandon the 7-round magazine limit in the new handgun law. We didn't expect it would be done so quietly, by folding it into a provision in the budget, via Bloomberg News: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s seven-round limit on magazines...

Robin Kelly #IL02 also is the candidate of Daily Kos

Posted by Mandy Nagy on March 25, 2013 6 Comments

Do voters understand what that means?...

America under Obama is a weak horse

Posted by Joel Engel on March 25, 2013 7 Comments

Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise visit to Iraq to plead with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to stop granting Iran permission to Iraqi airspace and territory. Iran, which has a vested interest in maintaining the Syrian regime, flies arms and other material...

EU and Cyprus agree to take big depositors’ money without calling it a “tax”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2013 31 Comments

So the EU has reached a deal to bail out Cyprus, but unlike the prior proposal, there will be no tax levied on anyone. Insured deposits under 100,000 Euros will be safe and transferred to a new "good" bank, but the losses will be concentrated on...

Sunday night open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2013 9 Comments

Was traveling most of the day and then meetings. I hear Syria has gone from worse to worser, and Egypt is not far behind. By morning Eastern time we may know if Cyprus implodes financially. Any good news? Tomorrow night is the first night of Passover. Seems like good timing...

The whole world is watching … Cyprus

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 24, 2013 15 Comments

Cyprus has certainly shaken up the world. Our Congress is now addressing concerns over the European Union demands that a percentage of Cypriot deposits be seized before it bails-out the banks on the Mediterranean island. There are reports that Cyprus still may seize bank accounts, but...

Showdown over Saturday mail delivery

Posted by Anne Segal on March 24, 2013 16 Comments

A planned AFL-CIO rally for today to defend Saturday mail delivery may have been a bit premature after the Government Accountability Office is claiming that the USPS cannot, by law, cut mail delivery to fewer than 6 days. Bloomberg News reports: The service is bound by law...