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Ayatollah Khamenei Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Anti-Trump Revolt - Tucker Calls Iran Decision 'Disgusting and Evil'

My View From Moscow April 1980 - The Failed American Hostage Rescue Mission

Obama’s Israel trip a peacekeeping mission — with Netanyahu

Posted by Anne Segal on March 20, 2013 9 Comments

Remember when this exchange was overheard by journalists about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Sarkozy: "I can't stand him. He's a liar." Obama: "You're tired of him -- what about me? I have to deal with him every day." After four years of snubbing Israel's Prime Minister, including grabbing dinner...

#Journalism — Boston Globe columnist fights with The Onion over whether Boston’s a world class city

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 13 Comments

The Onion had a typically funny post, Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’. Boston Globe columnist Tom Keane took umbrage, and responded with a spirited defense of Beantown, Boston’s big city game: ‘Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’ ”...

San Francisco pol delivers 25-ft buffer legislation to abortionist supporters

Posted by Anne Segal on March 20, 2013 17 Comments

San Francisco city supervisor David Campos is making good on his campaign promise to go after "right-wing extremists," reportedly proposing legislation Tuesday to increase the anti-free speech "bubble zone" around Planned Parenthood to 25 feet. Campos's website describes exactly who he is trying to attack: "right-wing extremists": David...

Mideast Media Sampler – The anti-Zionist DNA of the New York Times

Posted by David Gerstman on March 20, 2013 3 Comments

The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times' coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever complicated personal themes may have floated in...

What, no whirled peas?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2013 9 Comments

From J: A self-admitted bedwetting liberal in Charlottesville. OK, the bumper sticker is actually for a rainwater falloff service, but I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony. ...

Iowa House Bill Targets Private Universities With DEI Offices

Students and Alumni at Smith College Protest for Divestment From Israel

Flyer Found at Penn State U. Says ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’

Franklin & Marshall College Economic Department Features Marxist Curriculum

Students for Justice in Palestine at U. Chicago Cheer for Iranian Missiles Hitting U.S. Navy Base

Dearborn Henry Ford Community College Prof Says Trump Made a Huge 'Mistake' in Iran

#SC01

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 20 Comments

Is this really happening. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CNN projects Elizabeth @colbertbuschsc, sister of @stephenathome, wins Dem primary in #SC01 special election. GOP primary too early to call— Robert Yoon (@yoonCNN) March 20, 2013 Not that, this: Per AP, former SC Gov. Mark Sanford has clinched a spot in the GOP runoff....

Being a bridesmaid isn’t that bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 33 Comments

The soft-bigotry of low expectations...

RNC Report — 100 pages and not a single word about bloggers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 43 Comments

The RNC rolled out its 100-page report on what went wrong in 2012 and what could be done better. The report has 39,136 words in it. One word is missing. Tells you everything you need to know. Contrast: with this: Even when the report does mention "social media," it's in the context...

Cyprus rejects bailout provision to seize percentage of bank deposits

Posted by Anne Segal on March 19, 2013 27 Comments

By a vote of 36 against, 0 in favor, with 19 abstentions, Cyprus lawmakers today rejected a provision that would have made a proposed $8.7 billion bailout contingent upon taking 6.75 percent of the value of all bank deposits. European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan gave his...

Dana Loesch: Paul McKinley “just took us to church”

Posted by Anne Segal on March 19, 2013 10 Comments

Dana Loesch, conservative star on the rise and host of The Dana Show, interviewed Republican Paul McKinley (IL-02) at CPAC, concluding at the end of the powerful interview, "go and support this man, he just took us to church." Loesch and McKinley spoke about the need...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/19/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 19, 2013 5 Comments

1) Is there any hope left for Mideast honesty in the New York Times A few people have pointed out that I missed an op-ed by Rashid Khalidi, Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? One paragraph really stuck out. Until 1991 most Palestinians, although under Israeli...

Elizabeth Warren cherry-picked $22 per hour minimum wage number

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2013 39 Comments

Guess which she picked from $9.22, $10.01, $10.52, $12.25, $15.34, and $21.72...

Two HOT graphics

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 19, 2013 37 Comments

One of the iconic "proofs" of man-made global warming is the infamous "hockey stick" graph". [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="448"] "Hockey Stick" graph.[/caption] Skeptics questioned the statistics and data used to generate the graph. So, as Powerline's John Hinderaker noted, "a group of climate alarmists headed by Shaun Marcott,...

Ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin!!

Posted by Joel Engel on March 19, 2013 13 Comments

Watching Sarah Palin’s canny performance at CPAC the other day—and particularly the moment she held up that Big Gulp in a Statue of Liberty pose after a provocative double entendre about her “rack”—two words came to mind: Lenny Bruce. In a lot of ways, the philosophical parallels...

Branco Cartoon – Forward 2016

Posted by A.F. Branco on March 18, 2013 14 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. ...

4-H urged to switch to air rifle/pistol due to ammunition shortage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2013 28 Comments

We have written before about the severe ammunition shortage ever since Democrats announced broadened gun control plans, with store shelves almost bare. Reader Danelle writes about a shortage of .22LR ammunition affecting youth shooting groups: As you know, one of my other jobs is teaching youth shooting...

RNC strategy for African American outreach: internal affirmative action plus more bureaucracy

Posted by Anne Segal on March 18, 2013 26 Comments

I've just begun to comb through the newly released RNC's "Growth and Opportunity Project" report, co-chaired by a group including Ari Fleischer and Haley Barbour. Reading through the methodology, and paying particular attention to the section on African Americans, has left me absolutely fuming. The report combined interviews...