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Kulaks Beware: Mamdani Orders Public Hearings To Shame "Ripoff" NYC Landlords

Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction

Koch not backing down, and neither should you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 11 Comments

There are no figures more unfairly attacked by the left than the Koch brothers. Power Line has an extensive write up on the demonization of the Koch brothers by Think Progress and other left-wing groups, and we have delved into the subject as well. One of the...

Feel-good headline of the day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 7 Comments

From Molly Ball at The Atlantic, Sorry, Democrats: 4 Ways Progressives Are About to Have Their Hopes Dashed: Ever since Election Day, the left has been riding high. Not only did President Obama and Democrats across the country win big on Nov. 6, the president has...

Boehner presser — Obama still being Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 16 Comments

John Boehner just held a press conference. I didn't see it (video now available, embedded below) but the reports are that there is no progress, Obama is still playing Obama. Via Business Insider: In a short, approximately four-minute press conference Friday morning, House Speaker John Boehner said...

Malmö Syndrome hits universities in Britain

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 15 Comments

Jews have been under seige and attack in the Swedish city of Malmö for years as leftist policitians turned a blind eye or cooperated in anti-Israeli agitation by Islamists and other pro-Palestinian groups. See my prior post, Malmö Syndrome. It is a phenomenon spreading across...

Look Medicare “means testing” gift horse in the mouth

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 10 Comments

Looks like Democrats' gift horse on Medicare, if it is anything at all which is far from a given, is going to be "means testing": Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) on Friday proposed means testing Medicare benefits as a way to reduce the deficit, an indication that Democrats may...

Rider University Creates $2M ‘Hope’ Fund to Help Students Pay Tuition as it Faces Cuts, Layoffs

CU Boulder Prof Claims Trump’s Venezuela Action Shows U.S. is ‘Fascist Authoritarian Regime’

U. Houston Replacing Women and Gender Resource Center With Family Office

Trustees of Martin University Announce School Will Close Permanently

Brown University Launches 'Healing and Recovery Effort' Following Campus Shooting

Virginia Ending In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants Due to DOJ Lawsuit

Melt the lines, it will make you feel better

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 3 Comments

From Patricia, who along with the rest of us has been feeling a little gloomy: You are sizzlin', Prof! You have indeed upped your game. Liken it. Just sent this to my congressman, Reid Ribble Republican House better not abandon 59,142,004 voters Contact the House leadership and your Representative. ...

Two Gores and one Kerry ago …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 17 Comments

From Charles: Been drinking that koolaid since 1996, probably much longer. Decatur, GA ...

Republican House better not abandon 59,142,004 voters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 53 Comments

Charles Krauthammer has it right in a post at NRO tonight, It’s Nothing But a Power Play: Obama’s objective is to fracture the Republican majority in the House Let’s understand President Obama’s strategy in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real...

Mohammed Morsi not backing down, despite warning from Roger Cohen of NY Times

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 13 Comments

Roger Cohen of The NY Times famously told us in February 2011 (emphasis mine): Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and Egypt’s...

Branco Cartoon – Surf’s Up

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 06, 2012 7 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...

Democrats’ “Stop or I’ll shoot myself” negotiating strategy working like a charm

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 27 Comments

When I read this line in Kurt Schlichter's excellent post, A Lawyer’s Tips on Negotiating for Dummies and Congressional Republicans, I had to laugh: Sound a bit, well, crazy? Unreasonable? Even scary? Good, because a skilled lawyer understands the awesome power of being the craziest, most...

Barack Morsi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 21 Comments

The danger of overplaying one's strong hand....

Jim DeMint resigning from Senate to head up Heritage Foundation (Senator Tim Scott?)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 42 Comments

This is a political earthquake (h/t @ErickErickson): South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will replace Ed Feulner as president of the Heritage Foundation. Mr. DeMint will leave his post as South Carolina's junior senator in early January to take control of the Washington think tank, which...

When Soviet-style propaganda comes to America, it will be published by the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by Ed Asner

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 26 Comments

A video published recently by the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by avowed-socialist Ed Asner gained attention because it showed "rich people" pissing on "poor people." But that is not the real vice of the video. The video is full of substantive lies, as explained brilliantly...

Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring, devolves into Islamist nightmare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 9 Comments

In February 2011, Roger Cohen of The NY Times demanded that we abandon the phrase "the Arab Street" as a relic of the past which no longer applied, even as crowds in Tunisia surged around a Synagogue shouting ""Jews, remember Khyabar, the army of Mohammed is returning"": Cohen further asserted...

Diversity, Idaho

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2012 9 Comments

More from Katja: The truck was parked at Costco in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho last Sunday. I had my camera with me, so I had to get a shot, and then realized that just one wouldn't suffice (and I still may have missed a couple, it seems, though...

Go kulak — more of nothing is nothing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 39 Comments

Taxes are going up you ungrateful kulaks. Top Marginal Tax Rate Will Exceed 50% in California, New York, and Hawaii in 2013 (h/t Instapundit): This paper compares state-by-state estimates of the top marginal effective tax rates (METRs) on wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, and business income for tax year...