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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Israeli airstrike hits targets on Syria-Lebanon border

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 10 Comments

There are reports that the Israeli airforce conducted an overnight airstrike on targets along the Syria-Lebanon border. Although the Israel Defense Forces have declined to confirm, sources say that the targets may have been trucks carrying anti-aircraft missiles being transported to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Lebanese...

Hunkering down for Term 2, GDP Edition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 40 Comments

Remember the cheery pre-election economic news? That was then, this is now. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the third quarter boom-boom days have turned into the fourth quarter bust: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the...

Supporters distract from Benghazi with familiar Hillary narrative and an animated GIF

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 15 Comments

Hillary Clinton continued to get the meme treatment this week with columnist Zerlina Maxwell's posting of a series of GIFs, or animated pictures, that instruct how to deal with "mansplainers." The GIFs used footage from the Benghazi hearings to take emphasis away from the content of...

Announcing ElizabethWarrenWiki.org

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2013 32 Comments

We are pleased to announce the launch of Elizabeth Warren Wiki (ElizabethWarrenWiki.org), the most comprehensive source of information and documentation with regard to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. The site originally was conceived, days before the 2012 election, as The Elizabeth Warren File, a place where...

Occupy Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked

Posted by Anne Segal on January 29, 2013 9 Comments

A series of Occupy twitter accounts as well as the Occupy Sandy facebook account were hacked Tuesday evening, with the hackers tweeting out messages like "OCCUPY IS OVER. IT WAS FUN. #SORRY" and "OCCUPY IS OVER." The affected twitter accounts included @OccupyWallSTNYC, @OccupyTogether, @OccupyChicago, @USUncut, @OccupyArrests, @OWSUnionSquare,...

U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Students Want School to Spend $25K on Reparations Commission

Anti-Israel Group at Columbia Reacts to Iran Strike by Tweeting 'Death to America' in Persian

Florida Democrat Says Charlie Kirk 'Was Not Assassinated'

Wesleyan U. President Writes Blog Post Praising Anti-ICE Efforts During 'War on Minnesota'

Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical and Law School Enrollment

Yale Investigating Antisemitic Graffiti Spray-Painted Into Snow on Campus

Branco Cartoon – Right to Bear Arms

Posted by A.F. Branco on January 29, 2013 8 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 ...

Where exactly is the “back of the line”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 21 Comments

The Gang of Eight yesterday: Individuals who are present without lawful status - not including people within the two categories identified below - will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time this...

Please, please make Jennifer Granholm Secretary of Transportation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 27 Comments

Via The Hill: Speculation on Ray LaHood's replacement as President Obama's Transportation secretary is focusing on a group of former transportation officials and 2012 presidential campaign surrogates — including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)...

Let our smartphones go

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 29, 2013 9 Comments

More unintended consequences of laws which are too broadly worded. The Atlantic writer Derek Khanna recently named the Most Ridiculous New Law - 2013 a provision which previously had been waived but has come back making it illegal to "unlock" your cellphone. And while there is plenty...

New ad campaign from NPR calls on listeners to….have babies?

Posted by Anne Segal on January 29, 2013 14 Comments

Local Chicago NPR station WBEZ has unrolled an advertising campaign for its membership drive that calls on its listeners to "go make babies today." The facebook-based microsite, "Go Makes Babies," features a five-question assessment that with the question, "The quickest way to get me thinking about...

Open morning

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 12 Comments

The intrusions of real life again. And the rollout of something tomorrow. Not what you think, or maybe it is. What's happening?...

The real cost of immigration “reform” — our freedoms

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 24 Comments

Rather than enforcing our current laws, and for purposes of political expediency, we are moving toward another vast expansion of federal government monitoring and information collection. Look at what we are going to have to do in order to not hold people who came here illegally accountable...

1930s Germany, or Britain today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 39 Comments

Could be either, except that Israel didn't exist in the 1930s. Israel Matzav has the story. Image via CAMERA: Related: “there is no future for Jews in England”; see also, Melanie Phillips, A LibDem MP gives voice to Britain's national sickness. Update 1-29-2013 -- Rupert Murdoch Apologizes for Netanyahu...

San Diego’s Top Cop: We can disarm Americans within a generation!

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 55 Comments

I recently reported that California was targeted for a massive effort by gun control activists intent on creating new and wide-ranging restrictions. Now, the Chief of Police in my hometown of San Diego has unwittingly unveiled the real goal behind this movement: The complete disarming of...

Silvio Berlusconi — Il Dunce

Posted by Joel Engel on January 28, 2013 28 Comments

Thomas Jefferson thought that the best insurance against future tyrannies was an educated populace. Historical ignorance is a petri dish that grows a lot of strange and destructive ideas. To wit: Silvio Berlusconi. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy's political left on Sunday with...

Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 20 Comments

Related to this, via Mediaite: In a soon-to-be-released interview with The New Republic, President Obama reportedly laments the negative influence Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can have on the congressional debate over various pieces of legislation. The president told TNR editor Frank Foer and owner Chris Hughes...

Star Wars economics in three easy lessons

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 21 Comments

Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the "Star Wars Tax Rule": The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that underscore...