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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Since Obama insists that rates rise, and they are, what’s the problem?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 15 Comments

Today seems like a slow fiscal cliff news day, after the drama of the past couple of days. The only news seems to be that Obama is digging in on marginal tax rates: President Obama on Tuesday rejected a GOP offer for avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff and...

Elizabeth Warren heads to banking committee (but she’s still not Cherokee)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 10 Comments

Did you hear the one about Elizabeth Warren on the banking committee? It is the big scoop today at HuffPo: Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will...

Charities squeal at math of Obama tax increases on the wealthy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 21 Comments

Update -- Charities' pain is the nanny state's gain...

Progressive fund retires consumer debt (now if only they were as concerned about our national debt)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 32 Comments

I have been pretty harsh on liberal blogger Allison Kilkenny in the past for her playing the Nork Card on John Bolton and the "sexy" card on Sarah Palin, her hysteria over Catholic charities, and her misfire on Bill Sparkman. She was a big cheerleader for...

Tea Party tidal surge, not tsunami

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 04, 2012 14 Comments

I am responding to Professor Jacobson's recent post, The Tea Party tsunami at the gates. As the Media Director of SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition (SCTRC), San Diego's original Tea Party group, I wanted to share my analysis that it won't be a tsunami -- it will...

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Branco Cartoon – Taxing and Spending and Taxing and..

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 04, 2012 5 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 ...

Sorry, no appointments until June

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2012 17 Comments

Well, at least it's not 10 years from this afternoon. Yet. Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Yes, Lawrence, there is a photograph of Zimmerman’s bloody nose

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 26 Comments

Remember when ABC obtained a police station surveillance tape which supposedly showed no injuries to George Zimmerman, thereby allegedly disproving his claim that he was being beaten when he shot Trayvon Martin? The Martin family lawyer along with plenty of left-wing blogs (including a once-famous photo...

Laughing in their faces

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 6 Comments

From Gabriella Hoffman, the daughter of Soviet immigrants, two gems. If they could laugh in the face of Soviet Russia ...

GOP counter-offers Erskine Bowles to Obama’s la-la-land (Update — Obama rejects out of hand, wants his pound of tax rate increases)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 29 Comments

Via The Hill (h/t Drudge): House Republican leaders have made a counteroffer to President Obama in the fiscal cliff negotiations, proposing to cut $2.2 trillion with a combination of spending cuts, entitlement reforms and $800 billion in new tax revenue. The leaders delivered the offer to the...

If we’re doing Doomsday, let’s really do Doomsday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 30 Comments

What does this solve? Via ABC News: Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse entirely. It’s quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts (the bill passed in August by the Senate) and...

Will Syria go chem?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 3 Comments

It has been much discussed since the beginning of the uprising. There have been reports of suspicious activity at chemical weapons sites, but who knows what it real and not real. One thing is for sure, chemical weapons cannot save Assad. The second he uses chemical weapons...

Yet more fear and loathing of American culture (and history) at the LA Times

Posted by Joel Engel on December 03, 2012 10 Comments

Suffering through the top story in the arts section of yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, I thought of Andrew Breitbart, whom I knew a bit—enough to have had several conversations about how insidiously destructive the mainstream media are to American ideals. Breitbart’s passion and mission in life...

Palestinian culture of incitement is the core problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 12 Comments

We have known for decades that Palestinian leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths, a message of relative restraint to the West and a message of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli agitation at home. Hamas is more honest than the Palestinian Authority, as it has a unified...

If Jevon Belcher didn’t possess a gun, would he and Kasandra Perkins really both be alive today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 46 Comments

Bob Costas' commentary on the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs player Jevon Belcher is receiving a lot of attention. I understand the points, via Ed Morrissey, that people don't tune in to a football game for gun control proselytizing, and that Costas focused on the gun...

I’d rather embrace equality and equal protection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 13 Comments

if violating those principles is the means to the diversity end. Spotted in Ithaca: ...

Alanis is Canadian for courage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 11 Comments

This is courage week for Canada. First, a very strong statement of support for Israel at the U.N. Now, unlike Stevie Wonder, who cancelled a pro-Israel concert under mild pressure from the U.N. and anti-Israel groups, Alanis Morissette, the Canadian singer, has arrived in Israel for a concert...