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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”?

How Republicans got clobbered in tech in two images and a few links

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 43 Comments

From a highly informative post, Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis at Red Mass Group: This post is about technology, but is written for a non-technical audience. You may think you know what happened with the technology of the Obama and Romney campaigns because of what...

Exhibit A as to why we needed Ted Cruz in the Senate (Update: Exhibit B — Chuck Hagel)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 38 Comments

One of the great frustrations the past several months (years) is completely inarticulate leadership on the Republican side. The "fiscal cliff" was just another typical debacle in failed ability to explain ourselves. Compare almost any press conference or speech or other communication by almost any Republican...

This week in anti-Israel lawfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments

David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I'm posting today's sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George Bisharat (who...

College Insurrection Night on Canto Talk

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 31, 2013 1 Comment

I am delighted to let Legal Insurrection readers know that my College Insurrection compatriot, Aleister of American Glob, will be on BlogTalkRadio.com's Canto Talk program tonight (Thursday, Jan. 31st) at 7 pm Pacific/9 pm Central/10 pm Eastern Standard Time (click here for link). It is my...

“and then a roll of duct tape came out”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 25 Comments

I wonder what the three masked intruders planned on using the duct tape for with this woman they found alone at home. And note that they brought the duct tape with them. She pulled out her gun and shot one of the three masked intruders and...

Report Alleges Georgetown U. Received $971 Million From Qatar

Saint Mary’s College in Indiana Finally Approves TPUSA After Four Years

In the End, it is Trump Who Has Done More Than Anyone to Bring Down Epstein

Ohio State U. Hires 'Assistant Professor of Black Sexualities'

Hunter College President Announces ICE Will Not be Permitted on Campus Without Legal Order

NYU Prof Claims Trump's Whole Milk Push is ‘Dog Whistle to Far Right’

Heller case attorney: NY 7-round limit “clearly unconstitutional”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 37 Comments

On January 29, 2013, I attended a discussion between Alan Gura, the attorney who successfully argued the Heller v. D.C. and McDonald v. Chicago 2nd Amendment cases in the Supreme Court, and Cornell Law Professor Michael Dorf. Gura was invited by the Cornell Law Federalist...

Grocery chain banning all products marketed to children with cute cartoon characters

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 41 Comments

A Washington, D.C., area organic grocery store chain is banning all food items marketed to children with cartoon characters, according to a report on Food Navigator-USA. MOM's Organic Market founder Scott Nash called using cartoon characters on items like cereal boxes or snacks "sleazy" and...

Branco Cartoon – He the People

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 30, 2013 8 Comments

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Survival of the biggest brought to you by big government

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 20 Comments

Daniel Blatt at Gay Patriot has a very perceptive observation about how massive regulatory intrustion ostensibly on the side of the little guy actually has the result of helping the biggest corporations who are the only ones able to handle the onslaught, Big government means...

Israeli airstrike hits targets on Syria-Lebanon border

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 10 Comments

There are reports that the Israeli airforce conducted an overnight airstrike on targets along the Syria-Lebanon border. Although the Israel Defense Forces have declined to confirm, sources say that the targets may have been trucks carrying anti-aircraft missiles being transported to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Lebanese...

Hunkering down for Term 2, GDP Edition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 40 Comments

Remember the cheery pre-election economic news? That was then, this is now. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the third quarter boom-boom days have turned into the fourth quarter bust: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the...

Supporters distract from Benghazi with familiar Hillary narrative and an animated GIF

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 15 Comments

Hillary Clinton continued to get the meme treatment this week with columnist Zerlina Maxwell's posting of a series of GIFs, or animated pictures, that instruct how to deal with "mansplainers." The GIFs used footage from the Benghazi hearings to take emphasis away from the content of...

Announcing ElizabethWarrenWiki.org

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 32 Comments

We are pleased to announce the launch of Elizabeth Warren Wiki (ElizabethWarrenWiki.org), the most comprehensive source of information and documentation with regard to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. The site originally was conceived, days before the 2012 election, as The Elizabeth Warren File, a place where...

Occupy Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked

Posted by Anne Segal on January 29, 2013 9 Comments

A series of Occupy twitter accounts as well as the Occupy Sandy facebook account were hacked Tuesday evening, with the hackers tweeting out messages like "OCCUPY IS OVER. IT WAS FUN. #SORRY" and "OCCUPY IS OVER." The affected twitter accounts included @OccupyWallSTNYC, @OccupyTogether, @OccupyChicago, @USUncut, @OccupyArrests, @OWSUnionSquare,...

Branco Cartoon – Right to Bear Arms

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 29, 2013 8 Comments

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Where exactly is the “back of the line”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 21 Comments

The Gang of Eight yesterday: Individuals who are present without lawful status - not including people within the two categories identified below - will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time this...

Please, please make Jennifer Granholm Secretary of Transportation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 27 Comments

Via The Hill: Speculation on Ray LaHood's replacement as President Obama's Transportation secretary is focusing on a group of former transportation officials and 2012 presidential campaign surrogates — including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)...