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Appeals Court Upholds No-Bond Detention Of Illegal Aliens In Huge Win For Trump

Red, White — and Ashamed? Team USA Skiers Bash the US

Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?

I liked it so much

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 24 Comments

I decided to make Patricia's manipulation -- contrary to Executive Order -- of the Obama skeet shooting shot our header at Facebook. (In case the feds ask, I'm not ratting out who "Patricia" is, and there's nothing they can do to make me talk, except maybe offering...

Illinois Democrat judge who was just reelected to plead insanity

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 27 Comments

You can't make this stuff up, and in Illinois, you don't need to. Illinois is like my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, only bigger and badder. Via John Ruberry at Marathon Pundit: Last fall Judge Cynthia Brim [recieved] barely the necessary "Yes" votes to...

“Co-opting today’s native struggle to the Palestinian propaganda war is a fallacy”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 8 Comments

I witnessed first hand in law school in the early 1980s the concerted and planned effort by "Palestinians" to co-opt indigenous rights movements to the anti-Israeli cause. The push was led by people like George Bisharat, now a law professor at UC-Hastings Law School and self-identified Palestinian-American...

Legal Insurrection goes local

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

As mentioned during Our own inauguration day, the focus this year is local: ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Congrats Karen Finney, you made Goldie Taylor look like the voice of reason)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 17 Comments

And that's not a good thing if you are Karen Finney of MSNBC, who dropped the Cracker bomb, which got barely a notice on MSNBC because it's MSNBC, via Mediaite: During a conversation about the Democratic Party’s strategic ability to isolate Republicans as the conservative party...

University of Houston Hit With Third Armed Robbery on Campus This Year

UC-Berkeley Prof Substitutes Exam for Creating Wikipedia Pages About 'Queer and Trans People of Color'

U. Minnesota Prof Allegedly Conducted an ‘ICE Drill’ in Class

Pro-Palestinian Activism on College Campuses is Based on a Muslim Brotherhood Blueprint

Zohran Mamdani Wants to Scale Back Gifted Programs in NYC Schools

Diversity Hiring Has Backfired on Higher Education

Saturday afternoon open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 54 Comments

Seems like there's a fair amount doing. This seems to be getting a lot of attention: POTUS shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David on Aug. 4, 2012. bit.ly/WlDMYG— Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) February 2, 2013 There's not much more I can add to that except...

Turkish gov’t again proves how far it has slipped

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 11 Comments

We don't know what or why Israel carried out a secretive bombing mission in Syria earlier this week. Speculation runs from hitting advanced anti-aircraft missiles on their way to Hezbollah, to a biological or chemicals weapons institute, to other unnamed but sufficiently important targets. One thing we...

Scott Brown’s important place in history

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 26 Comments

Scott Brown never misrepresented himself or his intentions....

“Leading By Example” Week at College Insurrection

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

Fine example you're setting College President Personally Smacked with $50,000 Bill for Violating Constitution Bucknell misreported test scores to US News for 6 years Loyola University Prof. Forces Students to Attend Lecture by Van Jones U. of Michigan removes Christian campus group for not allowing gays/lesbians in leadership Prof Big...

All in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 6 Comments

That was the subject line in the email from reader R. This "all in" bumper was spotted in Boise, ID: ...

Iran monkey space launch fake?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 23 Comments

Those are the reports. Via Ynet: Just four days after Iran proudly announced it had successfully launched a monkey into space – a move seen as proof of a technological breakthrough which may help the Islamic Republic advance its nuclear program, London's Times newspaper is questioning the...

Happy Birthday, Andrew Breitbart

Posted by Anne Segal on February 01, 2013 19 Comments

Today would have been Andrew Breitbart's 44th birthday; he passed away last year on March 1, 2012. I think there's another facet of his experience that we ought to appreciate on his birthday. Andrew spoke often of his conversion from living a life outside of the political...

Scott Brown not running? Update — confirmed, campaign issues statement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 21 Comments

So says Howie Carr writing in The Boston Herald (h/t Hot Air) in a scoop. Scott Brown will not run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, a source close to the senator tells the Herald. Update: The campaign just issued this statement: SCOTT BROWN STATEMENT...

The Insurrection’s all over the place

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 12 Comments

I'm interviewed in The Washington Times Communities section, with a fairly nice description and graphic: Since it went online during late 2008, Legal Insurrection has established itself as a unique legal blog. With a focus on current events, and analyzation of these from a distinctively center-right...

Is Rahm losing his grip on the city of Chicago?

Posted by Anne Segal on February 01, 2013 26 Comments

Last Sunday, I attended a candidate forum with those seeking to replace Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr. at Reverend Wright's former church (he's still Pastor Emeritus), Trinity United Church of Christ. 22 candidates have filed to replace the mentally ill congressman, 17 Democrats and 5 Republicans....

Ted Cruz’s not “bogus attack” on Hagel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 35 Comments

Chuck Hagel was an embarrassment yesterday at this confirmation hearing. John Podhoretz has it right: Well, as a result of this confirmation hearing — the most disastrous of its kind since another veteran senator, John Tower, blew himself up in his pursuit of the same post...

R.I.P. — Mayor Ed Koch

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 22 Comments

He died this morning at age 88. I didn't always agree with him, but he was a unique character and a fierce defender of our quality of life, the law, and Israel. There are few people who established such a force of personality. Update -- via Twitchy: https://twitter.com/laichungleung/status/297310471818735616 ...