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Feds should bring "a good, strong case against a mayor or a governor interfering with ICE operations"

Kamala Harris Rebrands Headquarters as a 'Gen-Z Progressive Content Hub'

Tongva Tribe Reminds Billie Eilish That Her Mansion Sits on Its Land

Controlling the narrative through language — “gun control” out, “gun violence” in

Posted by Anne Segal on January 18, 2013 17 Comments

As part of "turning loose" his massive campaign apparatus on a number of policy fronts, President Obama appears to be directing a language overhaul as part of his gun-control agenda. In a recent press conference with Joe Biden, The Atlantic's Molly Ball observes that neither President Obama nor...

Plutocrats against middle-class prosperity on nimby parade

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...

“Great grandma was a Cherokee”

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...

Obama’s interference in Israel’s election

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...

Branco Cartoon – 2nd Amendment Remedy

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

Staffers Cut Ties With Notre Dame Over Hiring of Abortion Advocate

Prof Warns Blowing Whistles to Alert Others to ICE Could ‘Retraumatize’ Hispanics

U. Minnesota Arrests 67 at Hotel Protest of ICE

Temple U. Student Who 'Assisted Don Lemon' Charged in Church Storming Case

Erika Kirk Urges Judge to Keep Tyler Robinson Murder Trial Open to Public

Supreme Court has Changed the Racial Mix in College Enrollment

Obama Phone!

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...

Anonymous staunch 2nd Amendment supporters?

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...

Is there a “David Gregory Clause” in the New York Gun Law?

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...

Gun Class Project

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...

Someone probably not concerned about the 10-round magazine limit (7 in NY)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2013 38 Comments

From The Providence Journal: "IPlead ThePiff" posed on his Facebook page with marijuana, money, a delivery guarantee -- and guns. "I don't talk," he wrote on one photo. "I let my guns sing and if a ...

“Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual”

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...

Those were the days

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. ...

D.C. Atty Gen Irvin Nathan — “No other involvement with Mrs. Gregory than that one event”

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...

Repugnant and cowardly

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...

What did I miss?

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...

Chelsea Clinton offers a good lesson for conservatives: branding is the name of the game

Posted by Joel Engel on January 16, 2013 26 Comments

Chelsea Clinton has a new job. (Insert joke here.) Chelsea Clinton is returning to Washington—this time in a leadership role. The former first daughter has been named the Honorary Chair of the 2013 National Day of Service and will headline a summit on the National Mall...

NYC bus drivers go on strike “for the children”

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...