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Partial shutdown Monday morning

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

No, not the gubmint. Legal Insurrection, for scheduled "maintenance." Starting about 4 a.m. Eastern on Monday. If all goes according to plan, the outage will be short and in any event, over no later than 8 a.m. If all doesn't go according to plan, can you say "healthcare.gov"? This...

HHS declines to testify before House committee on Obamacare rollout

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 27 Comments

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on October 24th to address the issues surrounding the health care law’s rollout. The committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that she appear before the committee to respond...

Tyrants if left to their own devices

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 62 Comments

You may have heard. There's a petition at MoveOn.org, promoted by Daily Kos, to have conservative members of the House arrested for sedition. And the petition has tens of thousands of signatures, with real people feeling bold enough to put their real names on it. Not just...

Remembering who the Real Boss is in Iran

Posted by David Gerstman on October 18, 2013 5 Comments

The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei still calls the shots....

Middlebury College suspends student in 9/11 flag grabbing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 34 Comments

We previously wrote about Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury College student who, with non-student activists, removed a flag memorial on 9/11 this year remembering the victims of the World Trade Center attack, claiming solidarity with the Native American Abenaki tribe: My intention was not to cause pain...

Texas Christian U. Seeks Professor Versed in ‘Trans Rhetoric’

Dozens of Students Forced to Relocate After Mold Found in U. Arizona Dorm

Student Leaders at Colorado State Oppose Bans on Sex-Change Surgeries for Minors

Tulane U. Cancels Event About Israel ‘Weaponizing Infectious Diseases’ After Backlash

Rhode Island School District Accused of Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents

Student Op-Ed About 'Cornell 7' Case at Columbia Causes Uproar

Federal probe sought of NY-23 Dem candidate’s false fundraising claim GOP tried to hack her website

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 3 Comments

On September 30, 2013, at about 6:30 p.m., Democratic challenger Martha Robertson in the upstate NY-23 district, sent a fundraising email claiming that "GOP Ops" had been "caught" trying to take down her website, and urging people to fight back and donate to her campaign,...

Small RI town seeks recall of town council over obstruction of concealed carry permits

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 7 Comments

Exeter, Rhode Island has certified a recall election of all four Democratic Town Council members....

NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he didn’t take any secret files to Russia

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 16 Comments

Edward Snowden says that he did not take any of the National Security Agency's files with him to Russia, according to the NY Times, which says it conducted an extensive interview this month with the former NSA contractor. From the NY Times: Edward J. Snowden, the former National...

Sheriff says he would charge parents in cyberbullying case if he could

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 23 Comments

The other day, I posted the story about two middle school girls arrested after a bullied girl’s suicide. The case of Rebecca Sedwick has been at the center of much media attention in recent days, sparking a good deal of debate on all sides of...

Answers remain scarce weeks into Obamacare website launch

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 51 Comments

Two weeks into the launch of the Obamacare website, issues continue to be unearthed and the administration remains short on answers. A few interesting paragraphs from this piece in Politico last night: At a summit of health care advocacy groups at the Newseum on Tuesday, the audience...

Why we should fear we’re headed for a bad deal with Iran

Posted by David Gerstman on October 17, 2013 13 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 10/17/2013 - Secretary of State John Kerry said that "no deal is better than a bad deal." Will he follow through?...

Father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden says his son has more secrets to share

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 12 Comments

The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden said Wednesday that his son has more secrets to share, and that staying in Russia allows his son "to continue to push these issues forward." From Reuters: Father Lon Snowden spoke at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York...

NSA Director Keith Alexander expected to depart by April

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 7 Comments

(Photo: AP) National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, who also serves as Commander of the United States Cyber Command, is expected to depart by next March or April, according to a Reuters news report. The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to...

Branco Cartoon – Foul Play

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 17, 2013 13 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...

Hey now, hey now

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2013 17 Comments

don't dream it's over. From Tugboat Phil: Professor, I just got my new plates in the mail. I didn't block out the letters for obvious reasons. I did erase the serial numbers from the month & year stickers. It really is my plate. Read it with the words at the...

LIVE: Senate vote on budget bill (Update – passes both Houses)(Peter King declares war on Ted Cruz)

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 16, 2013 67 Comments

The Senate is expected to vote this evening on a short-term bill to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. You can watch it live below. [feed removed] The full text of the plan can be found here. Updates (by waj): Passed both Houses of Congress. Via...

EBT cards and free stuff

Posted by New Neo on October 16, 2013 47 Comments

By now you've probably heard about the EBT card breakdown during a power outage in which shoppers at a couple of Louisiana Walmarts purposely took advantage of the situation by "buying" a huge number of groceries for amounts that greatly exceeded their EBT limits in...