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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

Seven years of college and all they know is targeting “patriots” and those educating about the Constitution and Bill of Rights

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2013 23 Comments

There is so much wrong with the IRS scandal at so many levels, it's almost hard to know where to start. It goes way beyond abuse of power, although it certainly is that. It is, as Newt said this morning on Morning Joe, "culturally sick" (emphasis added): "[Obama]...

Look who I found

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

Two longtime Legal Insurrection readers, brothers Jim from California and Jon from Michigan. Jim's daughter was a student of mine and we met yesterday at Cornell Law School's post-commencement reception. You may not be able to see it, but Jim was wearing an AR-15 pin. ...

Weekend Wrap-up of Benghazi Coverage – Notable Quotes

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 12, 2013 33 Comments

The weekend’s media coverage on Benghazi brought in some notable quotes and points of interest: Petraeus: talking points "essentially useless" When the Benghazi talking points were being reviewed and revised by other agencies after the September 2012 attack, former CIA Director David Petraeus indicated that the revised...

The Washington Post leads on the #IRScandal … who will follow?

Posted by David Gerstman on May 12, 2013 24 Comments

This morning Prof Jacobson observed IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media. A Tweeter responded: @leginsurrection Douthat makes the same point, in a NYer's version of the argument nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opi…— Tampa (@S1CT) May 12, 2013 Indeed. Douthat laid out the case of The Taxman...

NBC’s David Gregory Calls Carney’s Explanation on Revised Benghazi Talking Points “Not Accurate”

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 12, 2013 10 Comments

David Gregory of Meet the Press sat down Sunday morning with House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who has led the state department’s review of Benghazi, to discuss the investigation into the aftermath of the September 11th, 2012 attack on...

Florida International U. Profs Claim School Agreeing to Work With ICE Makes Students Feel Unsafe

Communist Group on Campus at UC-Berkeley Displays Poster Depicting Trump as Hitler

Steven Crowder Event Canceled at UPenn Due to Security Issues

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

Don’t drink the global warming “wine”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 12, 2013 12 Comments

Happy Mother's Day. As part of my personal celebration, I am planning to indulge in one of my pamper pastimes: Sipping some fine California wine. Sadly, eco-activists have targeted the Golden State's vineyards in their latest fear campaign: The study, published recently in the Proceedings of the National...

10-4

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 13 Comments

Here’s the bummer: right-wing blogs are read by only a fraction of the electorate, and so the good information put out there by the professor is almost without voice in the grand scheme of things. The truth he utters deserves greater audience. The tragedy is that...

IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 20 Comments

Since the rise of the Tea Party movement in the spring of 2009, the movement has been the target of Democratic politicians and supportive media. The Tea Party was called un-American and terrorists for showing up at health care town halls and voicing an opinion. The Department...

How #Benghazi punctures the “team of rivals” myth

Posted by David Gerstman on May 12, 2013 24 Comments

There was a useful fiction about Barack Obama. His cabinet would consist of a "team of rivals." After this week's hearings, I doubt we'll hear the term again regarding this administration. So now we know who took the terrorist attack references out. Next shoe: who put the...

Not a Macker backer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2013 2 Comments

Save us, Virginia. Sir, I attended the Albemarle County Republican Breakfast this morning and happened upon this display of freedom in the parking lot. 5 of the 7 LG candidates spoke and it was a packed room. The Republican Nominating convention is May 18 and will be...

Saturday Night Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 30 Comments

Benghazi exposed to be a big White House and State Department lie. The IRS caught targeting Tea Party groups and those "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights." Republicans ready to pass amnesty for law breakers. There will be no Saturday Night Card Game tonight. I'm taking the...

IRS anti-Tea Party scandal gets real — senior IRS officials aware of targeting (Update – Chief Counsel knew and targets expanded to groups “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 59 Comments

This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some "low level" employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties' tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON (AP)...

Anti-Israel Prof. Noam Chomsky helped BDS get to Stephen Hawking

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 27 Comments

If you think Stephen Hawking's decision not to attend a conference in Israel was a principled stand for academic or other freedoms, you can drop that notion. Hawking, as many have pointed out in the past few days, has attended conferences in the past several years...

How IRS targeting of Tea Party groups was exposed

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

Mark Levin details the history of the fight to expose the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Via DailyRushbo via Right Scoop: ...

“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."...