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Posted by Joel Engel on January 18, 2013 32 Comments

As soon as I heard the word fracking for the first time, I thought it was an onomatopoeia of Yoko Ono's "singing." Now comes confirmation (via WaPo): Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon spoke out against fracking Thursday during a tour of natural-gas drilling sites...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 13 Comments

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people with high...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 24 Comments

You don't need to be an expert in Israeli politics to understand that Israeli voters don't like it when their leaders fight with an American president. That's nothing new, and it's not new in the age of Obama. That's the context in which you need to understand...

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 18, 2013 16 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 14 Comments

From "Loyal LI reader J from Illinois" Saw this the other day and managed to snap a picture. I can't tell whether the "free government phone" banner is with the cheap smokes place or the cell phone place, but I find it hard to imagine the cell...

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

I told you on Monday, when I announced that I was joining both the NRA and EFF that The Tea Party movement has more in common with the hacktivist community than either side wants to admit. That common ground is not expansive.  The Tea Party movement certainly is...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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