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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’

Obama presser — wants Harry Reid, who never allows votes on Republican legislation, to hold up or down vote on Obama’s plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2012 8 Comments

CBS reports: President Obama and congressional leaders met for just over an hour this afternoon to work on a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" in a meeting that was described as "constructive and candid."...

North Korean Army Girls March

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2012 37 Comments

Just because. Don't draw any conclusions as to why I'm posting it. Because you probably would be right. ...

Bad economy already dialed in, fiscal cliff or not

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on December 28, 2012 10 Comments

Recently released figures have resulted in mixed interpretations among economists about the 2013 economic outlook. Some say the economy is on pace to achieve a modest recovery pointing to better than expected housing figures, and a relatively low amount of first time unemployment claims during...

Potemkin Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2012 20 Comments

Obama has bad intentions, according to Charles Krauthammer. News flash! Sure, it's a mess right now. But maybe a mess is what we needed to get this party in shape. It's a risky tactic Obama is taking, one which might just as easily backfire, as I noted in...

Feinstein legislation is the Obamacare of gun control

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2012 53 Comments

Legislative overreach reveals the agenda...

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

Washington, DC Gun Attorney David Benowitz On The David Gregory Situation

Posted by 0387erp on December 28, 2012 67 Comments

Much has been made of David Gregory’s alleged possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device during an airing of Meet the Press on December 23. In my mind there are two big questions to answer: 1) can the government prosecute Mr. Gregory; and 2) if...

Branco Cartoons – 2012 in Review

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 28, 2012 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 WAJ adds -- A.F. Branco joined Legal Insurrection on August 6, 2012. This video compilation is a testament to his great talent, which...

Because I’m the journalist, and you’re not

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 16 Comments

That's where we are at the end of the day, today, via Jonathan Adler at National Review: It appears as if NBC’s David Gregory decided to brandish a high capacity magazine on NBC’s “Meet the Press” even though NBC was informed it would be illegal to...

Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, R.I.P.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 11 Comments

Just breaking: The Associated Press is reporting that retired General Norman Schwarzkopf has died. He was 78. Schwarzkopf served as the commander of coalition forces during the Persian Gulf War in 1990. His strategy of using a “left hook” to go behind Iraqi forces occupying...

Now playing on a campus near you: De Tocqueville’s “The End of Democracy in America”

Posted by Joel Engel on December 27, 2012 17 Comments

It took five centuries before the strychnine of corruption and fatigue finally killed the Roman Empire (né Republic). It’s taken the U.S. about five decades to reach a point where such a suicidal whimper no longer seems unthinkable. If you want to know why we’re getting...

Someone tell Rahm Emanuel his children are protected by armed guard at school

Posted by Anne Segal on December 27, 2012 23 Comments

Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief-of-staff for Obama, recently condemned the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for suggesting that armed guards in schools could be appropriate in some situations. Yet, it appears that Rahm sends his own children to a school protected by an armed...

Out with The Christmas Strategy, in with The New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Strategy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 12 Comments

Kick the can down the road, Republicans. Do what I've been telling you to do since early December, The Christmas Strategy, which now needs to be renamed The New Year's Rockin' Eve Strategy because you didn't listen. It's still called Plan C: I say call his bluff....

Learning to love Alinsky’s asymmetrical political warfare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 52 Comments

As we move into 2013 and the legal insurrections, we should learn from history. As Thomas Lifson at American Thinker points out, now that the major institutions have been surrendered, it's time to emulate the left, Here comes the Alinskyite Right: David Gregory and Piers Morgan have...

Sam Donaldson

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 21 Comments

Need I say more? Via Newsbusters: Donaldson went after the Tea Party this weekend. During a discussion about 2012's biggest game changers on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Donaldson said, "The greatest slogan that I hated during this last campaign was 'We want to take back our...

Feds and media jump to David Gregory’s defense as race card goes missing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2012 32 Comments

It must be nice to have friends in high places...

Reuters: In Afghanistan people kill people, in the U.S. guns kill people

Posted by Joel Engel on December 26, 2012 15 Comments

In Kabul the other day, an Afghan policewoman shot dead her American police trainer and would’ve shot others, too, if her service pistol hadn’t jammed. Here’s how Reuters characterized the incident today in a piece titled Mental illness, poverty haunted Afghan policewoman who killed American: The Afghan...

From the Tip Line…

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on December 26, 2012 6 Comments

Below are links to two articles and brief excerpts from them that are on theme with the direction the blog has gone today. Click on the links to find the full articles, they are worth the read. -Are gun control advocates losing control of the gun...