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KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

There is a "Popularized Conception of Birthright Citizenship, Which May Not be Accurate"

Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused

“Think As You Are Told” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 3 Comments

Lords of the Flies: Johns Hopkins pro-choice group tries to silence pro-life students using “harassment” policy Northwestern Latino student group says eating tacos to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is racist Berkeley student govt calls for divestment from “United States Prison Industrial Complex” including, um, McDonalds Envelope with white powder...

Like a whole other, other country

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 13 Comments

Not Texas. Dear Prof. Jacobson, Well, the skies are blue, at least . . . After "One step away from #Gosnell," I figure we need our spirits lifted a bit, so I present the following, taken in Burns, Oregon, the other day. Some background: Harney County, Oregon, is 10,226...

The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 62 Comments

"I hoped I would never see this day, but I feared I would."...

Jay Carney attempts to throw CIA under the bus on Benghazi talking points

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 30 Comments

I'll post the video when available. (Wow, GOP Rapid Response got this video out really quickly) Here are some tweets as it took place:

Throwing CIA under bus never works, ask every prior President--> payback leaks
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 10, 2013

Carney: Should we have overruled the intelligence community?We relied on what they thought.Fighting words.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 10, 2013

"These were intelligence community talking points" -Jay Carney
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013

Really risky strategy of the WH to keep pointing fingers at the CIA
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 10, 2013

WH is playing w/ fire passing buck to the CIA on stuff like this, b/c intel community can only be kicked around for so long. #leaks
— Kerry Picket (@KerryPicket) May 10, 2013

Jay Carney has been trying to suggest that the CIA made all the edits. Now he admits they made the edits on suggestions from State & WH.
— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 10, 2013

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/10/2013 – Newseum honors Terror TV

Posted by David Gerstman on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

1) When is news not really news? The Newseum - a museum devoted to the news business - recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November. Newseum...

Florida Removes Sociology Requirement From General Education Due to Concerns About Bias

Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Overwhelmingly Democrats

Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants

Boxer and Influencer Jake Paul Says Charlie Kirk Would Have Been a President

Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt U. Invites Planned Parenthood Lawyers to Discuss Racial Justice

Pro-Trans Student Group at Brown Holds Rally to Criticize 'Anti-Trans' Laws

Branco Cartoon – Grab A Mop

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 10, 2013 7 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 ...

As IRS admits it targeted Tea Party groups, remember IRS is Obamacare enforcer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 25 Comments

A lesson also for blind faith in government to fairly enforce the Gang of 8 immigration provisions...

Benghazi leaks finally breaking the damn media dam

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 13 Comments

ABC News blows the lid off the lies of the Obama administration regarding Susan Rice's talking points. That lid already had been blown off by Stephen Hayes, but now it's in the mainstream media. Exclusive:The Benghazi talking points underwent 12 revisions, extensive edits from State. They are...

More on the bad economics of Elizabeth Warren’s student loan proposal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2013 15 Comments

Pitting Federal Reserve risk-free short-term lending to banks versus long-term risky lending to students was pure political demagoguery....

#OpUSA Fails Miserably But Succeeds in Uniting Israeli and US Cyber-Defenders

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 10, 2013 2 Comments

As expected, the #OpUSA campaign planned by hackers against US websites on May 7th turned out to be nothing more than mostly hot air. All the promises to “wipe the US off the cyber map” resulted in a small number of annoyance defacements, many of...

Senate Hacks Free Market with Bipartisan Support

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2013 29 Comments

As a citizen activist, I remember how thrilled we were with the results of the 2010 election, in which the Republicans made enormous gains that were suppose to protect the free market. Fast forward to 2013. The Senate has just approved the "Marketplace Fairness Act", legislation...

Why is Daily Kos so afraid of some speech competition from the Koch Brothers?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 25 Comments

The Daily Kos is reacting very hysterically to the mere possibility that the Koch Brothers might buy 8 Tribune Co. newspapers, including the L.A. Times. Kos has teamed up with SEIU and others to try to pressure the Tribune not to sell the papers to the...

Tunisian indicted in U.S. in connection with Canadian railway terror plot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 4 Comments

On April 22, 2013, we noted that a terror plot to derail trains headed for the United States was foiled, Canadian terrorist plot foiled — arrests made (Update – supported by al-Qaeda in Iran). The FBI made the following announcement of the indictment of a Tunisian, Ahmen...

Dear @Jerusalem_Post – this is why @TimesofIsrael is cleaning your clock

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 8 Comments

Both The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel have great content. But I always go to The Times of Israel whenever possible. The Jerusalem Post must hate its online readers, or at least take them for granted, because getting to the content is a real fight. When...

The post-#Benghazi hearing spin begins

Posted by David Gerstman on May 09, 2013 17 Comments

After public editor, Margaret Sullivan's unconvincing arguments about the New York Times coverage of Benghazi, I was expecting the New York Times and other members of the MSM to be out today with editorials spinning yesterday's testimony in favor of the administration. .@sulliview insistence on equating...

Palestinian leaders tell their own people what they really mean

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 8 Comments

And they don't mean "land for peace" or anything close to it. Instead, they welcome people like Egyptian Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi to Gaza: Leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi paid a high-profile visit to Gaza on Thursday, giving a boost to the Islamist group Hamas that runs...

Elizabeth Warren finds way to inflate Higher Ed bubble even more

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 20 Comments

Warren's first bill should be called the "Harvard Tuition Subsidization Act of 2013"...