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The debate Tuesday night is a "town hall" style. While the prevailing wisdom is that this will help Obama, I'm not so sure.  While it will give Obama the chance to give hope and change type mini-speeches, it also gives Romney the chance to push the...

In yet another solid interview, Dan Bongino outlines his vision for Washinton, D.C. The clip is less than 5 minutes, and I recommend watching it in its entirety, but I thought his response to the question of Obamacare was particularly good. Q. Is the Healthcare Reform Act...

This has got to be the worst, most misguided initiative since Jim Crow—and if you’re a eugenicist, a Klansman, or just a garden-variety bigot, you’re popping champagne corks. The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading...

And that's probably a good thing. From commenter Henry Hawkins: I've been riding around in my pick up truck for weeks with a camera on the seat hoping to spot a bumper sticker worthy of the LI series. Nothing even close. Then I remembered the back of my...

Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was most memorable for the Empty Chair. But Eastwood also had Joey "Grins" Biden pegged precisely (h/t theduchessofkitty in the Tip Line): I didn't pay much attention to that line in the speech, but man, was Clint on target. Everybody says, oh, there Joe goes...

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 24 days to go. There are some truly creative and fabulous Empty Chair photos that I’d like to share...

A recently released Associated Press article on the Operation Counterweight race between David Rouzer (R) and Mike McIntyre (D) has echoed a common assertion regarding Mike McIntyre's political status. A member of his party’s conservative Blue Dog caucus, McIntyre casually quotes Scripture, rails against illegal immigrants,...

People who work in sales often rely on leads.  The better the source of the lead, the better the lead itself.  So when your lead comes from the President of the United States and his Secretary of State, you’d be foolish not to follow up...

In case you missed it: Obama admin pressures schools into racial disciplinary quotas Asian-American Students Sense Admissions Bias Students comment on Supreme Court affirmative action case University Suspends Diversity Officer for Signing Petition Against Gay Marriage UC Berkeley Faces anti-Semitism Investigation Religion not a protected class at Yale Plus the war continues...

From reader John, Another one from the Stew Leonard's parking lot in Yonkers. BTW, that Cube is one of the ugliest cars I've ever seen. ...

Anne has been following the bizarre Jesse Jackson, Jr. saga for months, and has noted that the medical excuses and disappearing act likely was hiding some other problem Why is Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr. still MIA? Jesse Jackson, Jr., on medical leave for exhaustion as investigations heat...

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 25 days to go. Today’s Empty Chair photo comes to us from an LI reader in Switzerland who writes,...

I don’t have much to say about last night’s debate—other than to describe the image that came to mind every time Joe Biden smirked and laughed and interrupted and bullied.  It was the image of Obama, watching on TV, alternately pacing and standing still, hand...