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Left Wing Group: Use 'Jury Nullification' to Resist Trump DOJ

Complaint: Suspect With IED at Gracie Mansion Swore Allegiance to ISIS

VIDEO - Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders One-Year Later

“You broke the health care system, you own it” Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 19 Comments

This is mightly rich. Donna Brazile was a big defender of Obamacare, despite warnings that it would drive up insurance rates: Guess who's now complaining about private insurance rates rising? You broke it, you own it. As for the rest of us, we're the victim, not you. What's on...

We have officially reached 3rd world political status with release of ICE prisoners

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 21 Comments

How low will this administration go on the sequester political jockeying? This low, As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released: The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house them because...

Jon Stewart vs. Sequester Hysteria

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 12 Comments

Jon Stewart mocks the sequester hysteria. Yes, he targets Republicans towards the end. But it's still pretty funny.(h/t my wife) I'm not a Jon Stewart fan, but he wouldn't be popular if he wasn't tuned in. Does his cavalier approach to the sequester reflect a popular skepticism...

Republicans nominate reformer ex-con running in #IL02 district famous for electing pre-cons

Posted by Anne Segal on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

It's one Man versus The Chicago-Bloomberg Machine in #IL02...

Mideast Media Sampler 02/27/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

1) It's been more than 20 years Jonathan Tobin writes in The Day the War on America Began: Exactly 20 years ago on this date, a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center took the lives of six people and injured more than a thousand others. The...

Chicago Teachers Union Wants to Close Schools on May 1st to Protest Trump

Yale Student Columnist Argues Campus Keeps Peers in ‘Ideological Bubble’

College Religious Exemptions Bill in Utah Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns on the Left

University of Providence in Great Falls, Montana, Declares Financial Exigency

Local Officials Crack Down on Annual 'St. Fratty’s Day' Party at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

U. Oregon to Start Handing Out Abortion Drugs Next Fall

Paul McKinley hangs onto lead to challenge Bloomberg-Chicago Machine candidate in #IL02 general election

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 2 Comments

It looks like Paul McKinley, who Legal Insurrection has been writing about for months, will pull out a victory in the Republican primary in the 2nd Congressional District in Illinois, for the seat vacated by Jesse Jackson, Jr. The Democratic nominee is Robin Kelly, the insider...

Tip Line Tuesday night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 23 Comments

Forgive me for forsaking the Tip Line. It's not that I don't read it, I do. I just have neglected promoting items: donb -- Paul Rahe in Obama’s Next Move: "The name of the game for our President is to force a crisis that will eventuate in...

Far left organizes to save fired Soledad O’Brien’s job at CNN

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 15 Comments

It's clear who made up Soledad O'Brien's niche audience base at her former employer CNN now that "Left Action" has issued an alert and created a petition to save their number one heroine in the media. Left Action, a "network of 1,000,000 progressive," must not...

The consequences of John Kerry

Posted by Joel Engel on February 26, 2013 20 Comments

Secretary of State John Kerry (go ahead, just try to type those words) is making his first overseas trip since confirmation as a member of the president’s cabinet—and as fourth, dear lord, in the line of succession. Via Heritage: Secretary of State John Kerry’s first overseas...

Rahm gives 100% support to anti-gun Chicago police chief

Posted by Anne Segal on February 26, 2013 10 Comments

In a press conference Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago expressed his "100 percent" support for Police Chief Garry McCarthy, who recently referred to law-abiding gun owners as agents of political corruption and has been under attack by the black caucus of aldermen for his inability...

DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 46 Comments

A reader called to my attention the case of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children. The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools. In the United States, the...

RIP Amos Shuchman: “Loved everything about NYC, except the New York Times”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 7 Comments

Obituary for Amos Shuchman, whose family paid for it to be run in The New York Times (emphasis mine, h/t CAMERA): SHUCHMAN--Amos, of New York, on February 1, 2013. Beloved and caring husband of Alice Shuchman for 51 years, father of Daniel (Lori Lesser) and Nina...

Mideast Media Sampler 02/26/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on February 26, 2013 5 Comments

1) Why are they staying away? Yesterday the New York Times reported Syrian Opposition’s Complaints Shadow Kerry’s First Official Trip: Mr. Kerry and foreign ministers from Europe and the Middle East are scheduled to meet in Rome on Thursday with opponents of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria,...

In Ithaca but not of Ithaca

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2013 18 Comments

Spotted at the Wal-Mart on Route 13. Probably lives outside the 10 square miles, in the reality part. ...

The Firehouse syndrome

Posted by David Gerstman on February 25, 2013 19 Comments

Earlier today Prof. Jacobson covered an issue I wanted to get to, Gov’t still controls the sequester pain meter. His argument was: The “unilateral” “across-the-board” sequester cuts seemingly absolve government of any responsibility. Actually, the opposite is true. While some decreases in the growth of government are mandated,...

Branco Cartoon – Biggest Loser

Posted by A.F. Branco on February 25, 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 Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

Gov’t still controls the sequester pain meter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2013 29 Comments

The "unilateral" "across-the-board" sequester cuts seemingly absolve government of any responsibility. Actually, the opposite is true. While some decreases in the growth of government are mandated, and government has less flexibility than usual particularly as to the defense budget, government still controls the pain meter. The key...