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Argument of Girls Sports "Trans" Cases at SCOTUS was "Otherworldly"

Hawley Stumps Doctor With Simple Question: 'Can Men Get Pregnant?'

Mamdani Housing Czar: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners are a Huge Problem’

Is there a “David Gregory Clause” in the New York Gun Law?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 21 Comments

We have a Gun Class Project ongoing to try to unravel the 39-page gun law passed and signed into law this week. It is a very complicated Bill, to put it mildly. One thing I just noticed. There is a provision in the law which sounds a lot...

Gun Class Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 49 Comments

Embedded below is the text of the gun law just enacted in NY State. The underlined portions are new wording or sections. It's complicated stuff. I'll be reviewing it to try to figure out the answers to some popular questions -- such as what happens to current pistols...

Someone probably not concerned about the 10-round magazine limit (7 in NY)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 38 Comments

From The Providence Journal: "IPlead ThePiff" posed on his Facebook page with marijuana, money, a delivery guarantee -- and guns. "I don't talk," he wrote on one photo. "I let my guns sing and if a ...

“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 40 Comments

I did get a chance, on my voyage yesterday, to listen to this part of Rush's show (emphasis mine): RUSH: I'm gonna take a stab at answering my question. Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. To what end? Aside...

Those were the days

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 4 Comments

My friends, I thought they'd never end, you'd click and click, on Alan Grayson ads. From the email archives, Jim sent this along back in early December 2011. What a month. What a month. Heh, for those of you who know what I mean. ...

Federal Judge Shielding Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Activists From Deportation

New Hampshire College Students Divided on Campus Carry Bill

Physicians Raise Concerns About ‘Decolonizing Medicine’ Class at U. Maryland

Arizona School District Suffers Enrollment Loss as Many Parents Choose Charter Schools

CU Boulder Prof Calls U.S. a 'Fascist Authoritarian Regime' in Newsletter

U. Arkansas Rescinds Offer to Law School Dean Over Advocacy for Transgender Athletes

D.C. Atty Gen Irvin Nathan — “No other involvement with Mrs. Gregory than that one event”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 45 Comments

Late last Friday afternoon, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan released a letter determining not to prosecute David Gregory “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law.” After the letter was released, Legal Insurrection discovered that Attorney General Nathan had participated in a mock trial event at the Shakespeare Theatre...

Repugnant and cowardly

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 73 Comments

One of the things I missed today during my long drive was the White House calling the ad embedded below "repugnant and cowardly." I'll tell you what else is regugnant and cowardly, a Presidential statement made by exploiting children on stage as a sympathy...

What did I miss?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 61 Comments

Seven hours in the car because the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations decided this morning to forget how to drive, so there were spinouts on Route 146 which had me sitting in a virtual parking lot as I headed towards...

Chelsea Clinton offers a good lesson for conservatives: branding is the name of the game

Posted by Joel Engel on January 16, 2013 26 Comments

Chelsea Clinton has a new job. (Insert joke here.) Chelsea Clinton is returning to Washington—this time in a leadership role. The former first daughter has been named the Honorary Chair of the 2013 National Day of Service and will headline a summit on the National Mall...

NYC bus drivers go on strike “for the children”

Posted by Anne Segal on January 16, 2013 10 Comments

Today, 8,000 bus workers and aides went on strike in New York City at 6a.m. this morning to protest the city's attempts to cut costs by putting their contracts up for bid to private bus companies. The last time school bus drivers went on strike...

Flaming blasphemy — a Corvette body on a Fisker?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 16, 2013 6 Comments

I would like to introduce the "Shrine of Flaming Capitalism's Product of the Month": The Destino. And flaming is a worthy designation indeed. The Destino is essentially a Fisker body over a Corvette Engine. Legal Insurrection readers may recall Fisker is a company that produces plug-in hybrid...

“Journalism didn’t just die. It went to work for the enemy. “

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 16, 2013 48 Comments

In the wake of the pathetic and distorted American coverage of the attack on our Libyan embassy and the subsequent death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, I wrote: American Journalism Has Been Officially Outsourced. The stories from international sources proved to be far more...

Workers of the World Unite

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2013 5 Comments

Discovered in the email archives from November 2011, from frequent photographer Ulises: Dear Prof., I was in Philadelphia yesterday and ran into the OccupyPhilly crowd around city hall. This sign caught my attention, because it seems to have been left there from a Tea Party rally...

The would-be murderers are shaking in their boots

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2013 58 Comments

What is wrong with this sentence? From The Daily News editorial cheering the draconian gun control law passed in NY State with no public discussion, no public debate, no normal waiting period, no time for Senators to read it, no likelihood of actually reducing crime, but great...

Make Us An Offer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2013 11 Comments

The financial pressures of the internet. We have touched on that from time to time, including with regard to Andrew Sullivan's modified-paywall, Blogonomics and independence. There is an urge to do what the "absolute worst" designed website on the internet does, and load up with pop-overs and...

Branco Cartoon – Hypocrisy, The Movie

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 15, 2013 10 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 ...

Breaking the “Left-Right Paradigm” one living room at a time

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 15, 2013 44 Comments

I am often asked why I remain a registered Democrat, despite my decidedly fiscal-sanity oriented independent streak. In part, it is how I can effectively fight the "left-right" political paradigm that is being used by the elite media and politicos to divide us, in order to...