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Squeezing California - Equal Protection Project Fighting Higher Ed DEI Discrimination Statewide

State Dept. Links 'Code Pink' and Other Far-Left Groups to the Chinese Communist Party

Harvard Prof Who Chaired 'Institutional Neutrality Group' Advocates 'Resistance' to Trump

The press in 2013 is so much worse than in 2008

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 25 Comments

A reader forwarded me the link to this Michael Barone article from October 11, 2008 (the day before the first post at Legal Insurrection), The Coming Obama Thugocracy: I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told...

Saturday Night Card Game (NJ Bar Assn excludes young heterosexual white males from At-Large Trustee slots)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 13 Comments

A reader sent along a curious email he received as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association (emphasis added): NJSBA Accepting Petitions for Positions The New Jersey State Bar Association is accepting petitions from members for the positions of at-large trustee and second vice president....

Top Ten Reasons I’m Not Going To CPAC

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 50 Comments

10. I'd have to drive, which would not be sustainable and green. 9. I hear there are a lot of college kids swooning over people who don't deserve to be swooned over. 8. It's too political, and there's nothing I hate more than politics. 7. What's her name with the...

Paul McKinley launches “Walking Tour of the Machine Destruction” in #IL02

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 14 Comments

He's up against the Chicago Machine, Bloomberg's SuperPAC and Daily Kos fundraisers...

I really was hoping never to hear the name Graeme Zielinski again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 20 Comments

Graeme Zielinski, Communications Director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, was one of the key Democratic operatives behind the anti-Scott Walker intimidation campaign which we featured here so often around this time last year, Wisconsin’s long, strange trip. Zielinski stood out from the usual protest operatives because of his...

Mistrial Declared in Case of Stanford Students Charged After Anti-Israel Protests in 2024

Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus

CUNY Law Hosting Lecture Framing Hamas Tunnels as Anti-Colonial Resistance

Report Alleges Georgetown U. Received $971 Million From Qatar

Saint Mary’s College in Indiana Finally Approves TPUSA After Four Years

In the End, it is Trump Who Has Done More Than Anyone to Bring Down Epstein

Everything Is Connected Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 2 Comments

Brats spoiled by brats: Whiny Harvard Crimson crybabies tell conservatives not to enroll if they plan on bashing Harvard as too liberal Students in Montreal Clash With Riot Police Over $70 Annual Increase in Tuition Whitewashing the influence of left-wing faculty Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers Named ‘Visiting Scholar’ at...

Hello, is anybody out there? #SequesterDud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 12 Comments

Does the internet still work? The hype and fear-mongering didn't live up to expectations. Now maybe the President can stop campaigning. ...

Sequester The Songs

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

These are pretty funny. Via DailyRushbo: I have a post scheduled for 7 a.m. Will we make it that far?...

Hey @DonnaBrazile — look at this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 26 Comments

Donna Brazile sent the Tweet of the Day earlier this week when she expressed amazement that her health insurance premiums were rising, “You broke the health care system, you own it” Tweet of the Day: What's on your menu? Just got off the phone with my...

If only we had Dan Bongino in the Senate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 9 Comments

Legal Insurrection supported Dan Bongino in the 2012 Maryland Senate race. Unfortunately, Dan was up against huge odds in Blue Maryland, and had a faux third party supposedly conservative candidate in the race, and Dan lost. This video shows what we missed. The video has garnered...

I leave the internets for just a couple hours and Obama declares he’s not a dictator (Update: Media hoping for a dictator)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 39 Comments

I don't know if there's a connection. It might just be coincidence. Did Obama really say "I'm not a dictator" or is today trolling gone wild day?— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 1, 2013 @leginsurrection Yep. He sure did. twitter.com/ExJon/status/3…— Heather Hampton (@6LambsMom) March 1, 2013 @leginsurrection He really did....

Progressive columnist rips Elizabeth Warren hyprocrisy on Jack Lew

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 16 Comments

You don't get more "progressive" than the Political Animal column at Washington Monthly, which has seen such luminaries as Steve Benen (now Rachel Maddow's blogger) grace its pages. In a column yesterday, Samuel Knight took Elizabeth Warren to task for voting in favor of corporate banker...

Mideast Media Sampler – New York Times Op-Ed Index for February, 2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 01, 2013 8 Comments

Final tally: Anti-Israel - 10 / Pro-Israel - 3 / Neutral - 1 ...

One year ago today, Andrew Breitbart died

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2013 8 Comments

Andrew Breitbart's mother died last night, In Memoriam: Arlene Mae Breitbart, 1925-2013. One year ago today, at 9:35 a.m., I posted the news which had just begun spreading throughout the blogosphere: Andrew Breitbart dead Very sad news to report, just breaking. Andrew Breitbart is dead. Via Big Journalism: Andrew passed...

#IL02 GOP nominee Paul McKinley’s story of repentance has Chicago Machine worried

Posted by Anne Segal on March 01, 2013 13 Comments

For what they say is a "sure-thing" race for the Democrats, the Machine sure is expending a lot of firepower to attack Republican Paul McKinley in the IL-02 special election coming up on April 9. What are they afraid of? Media outlets are issuing hit pieces on...

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Crime Against Sanity

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2013 12 Comments

I have been sounding the warning siren about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for years. His mask of moderation has been slipping steadily, if it ever was there. He has engaged in repeated rants against Israel, and now he has gone the full distance reviving the...

A behavioral scientist examines Sequestration logic

Posted by Anne Segal on February 28, 2013 11 Comments

A professor at Harvard has applied her behavioral science background to the use of the "sequestration" tactic in an article, "The Strange Behavioral Logic of the Sequester Stalemate." She uses the somewhat forced nature of the upcoming automatic spending cuts and compares elements of the situation...