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Sunday Night Open (Update – The Washington Warrens)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 13 Comments

Been away all week at a conference in Orlando. Thanks to Mandy and other contributors for covering. Remember, there may be a partial shutdown of LI on Monday morning, for "maintenance." What did I miss? Update: The Washington Warrens! ...

Running to Govern is Much Different Than Running Government

Posted by David Gerstman on October 20, 2013 14 Comments

Last year the big technology news was how President Obama's re-election campaign used technology to beat Mitt Romney. This year's big technology news is the failure of the introduction of Obamacare's healthcare exchanges. https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/390835631493898240 Last year, even before the election, President Obama's IT operation got noticed. A June 2012 article in Politico asserted:

The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign’s 2012 digital operation — from data mining to online organizing — reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could impact the outcome of a close presidential election.

Supporters show up to rally behind bullied student after aunt’s Facebook post

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 10 Comments

It started with a single Facebook post. When the aunt of a high school student realized he was being bullied at school, she took to Facebook to invite what turned out to be about 100 of his "new friends" to meet her nephew at school and show...

Sen. Durbin: “Ultimately, Secretary Sebelius will testify” on ObamaCare website issues

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 22 Comments

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin told FOX News Sunday that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will "ultimately" testify before Congress to address Obamacare website rollout issues. From FOX News: A top Democratic senator said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will testify...

Qatar websites restored after Syrian Electronic Army attack

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 1 Comment

Several websites with the Qatar (.qa) domain extension have been restored to normal after being disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army this weekend. The hackers targeted the Qatar Domains Registry and altered DNS records for several high profile domains, according to Softpedia, then defacing pages...

TPUSA Members: UT Tyler Attack Reflects Growing Campus Hostility Toward Conservatives

UT Austin Funds Graduate Student Research on ‘Reproductive Justice’

Texas Tech Regents Eliminate Several Race, Gender Studies Courses

Ransomware Gang Claims Credit for Vanderbilt Cyberattack

Occidental College Hosts Transgender Event That Mocks Trump

Franklin & Marshall College Drops Plan to Adopt 'Gender Neutral' Mascot

Circus posters removed after complaint from woman with fear of clowns

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 29 Comments

A town council in England has taken down promotional circus posters after a complaint from one woman - in a town of 28,000 - who happens to have a fear of clowns, according to the Daily Mail. A council has removed posters advertising a circus following...

Baby on Board, too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 12 Comments

Remember all those "Baby on Board" yellow signs back in the day? From J: the bumper sticker we've been waiting for, re this ridiculous trend. Spotted in Charlottesville. ...

Anatomy of how a racism lie spread half way around the world

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 48 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game...

Boy Scout leaders who toppled ancient Utah rock reportedly receiving death threats

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 46 Comments

Two men associated with the now viral video of them toppling a rock formation in Utah's Goblin Valley State Park say they are receiving death threats, according to the Associated Press/ABC News. Two Utah Boy Scout leaders who purposely knocked over an ancient desert rock formation...

“America’s path to the gallows”: inevitable?

Posted by New Neo on October 19, 2013 40 Comments

Despite frustration, good things can still be accomplished....

Mayor of Pennsylvania town tells voters to vote for someone else

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 3 Comments

The mayor of a small town in central Pennsylvania who is running unopposed for a second term is now telling voters not to vote for him. After missing the deadline to remove his name from the ballot, Mayor Bob Wiser decided that he wants to call...

How much influence do partisan news shows have on political views?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments

Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book "Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice ." The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

BDS movement distilled – when Israeli soldiers not raping Arab women is racist

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 21 Comments

BDS rhetoric is so extreme that even some left-wing Jewish critics of Israel are worried....

“Yes, Yes, Yes!” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments

Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on Men? Is George Galloway a disgusting...

Ballotpedia shows why this November’s elections are important

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 19, 2013 7 Comments

With both houses of Congress passing the budget deal, and the Tea Party being smeared by both parties, I wanted to give my Legal Insurrection friends some reasons to have hope and a reason to focus locally. Many of these reasons can be found in Ballotpedia, an...

I guess I still don’t understand Texas

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 18 Comments

From Bill: Seen in Newport Beach, CA Hopefully, this represents the spearhead of an invasion....

Mother of teen accused in bullying case arrested on unrelated charges

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 17 Comments

The mother of a 14 year old girl charged with stalking in connection to the bullying case of Rebecca Sedwick, who later committed suicide, was arrested Friday on unrelated charges of child abuse and child neglect. From WTSP-10News: The mother of one of the girls facing charges...