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Coulter: Santorum “more of a Catholic than a conservative”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 66 Comments

Having called the Tea Party birthers and Newt Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter has identified another way of demonizing and belittling someone who is not Mitt Romney: As a two-time senator from a light-blue state, Rick Santorum is not as obviously unelectable as the rest. But don't leap too fast,...

Why do we even have to ask for permission to shoot?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 77 Comments

Two men break into a home in Oklahoma. A widowed young mother and her infant are alone in the house. The mother calls 911 to ask if it is okay to shoot the intruders: "I've got two guns in my hand -- is it okay to...

Going after Romney is patriotic, too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 56 Comments

Remember when one Republican candidate viciously attacking the leading Republican candidate was patriotic? Like in Iowa, when everyone from Charles Krauthammer on down blamed Newt's past for the several millions dollars in negative attack ads run by a pro-Romney SuperPAC? When National Review devoted almost an entire issue to...

Do we really need 10 more months of this?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 26 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. Romney Tax Returns Become a Problem Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his party’s nomination, setting himself...

Flee fishing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2012 5 Comments

Another one from John Ruberry's canoe trip in Morton Grove, Ill. Taken on a car with Wisconsin plates -- must be another one of those fleebaggers: ...

CUNY Students Pepper Sprayed by Police While Trying to Establish ‘Liberated Zone’ on Campus

Trump to Deliver Commencement Speech at U. Alabama, Democrats Outraged

Muslim Group CAIR Wants Biden ‘War Criminals’ to Lose Academic Gigs

Cornell Disinvites Israel-Bashing Pro-Intifada Musical Performer From Unity Event After Backlash

Columbia University Students Already Planning to Build New Anti-Israel Encampment

FBI Raids Homes of Anti-Israel Activists From University of Michigan

Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 53 Comments

Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau correctly is portrayed as a naked power grab. First, the Senate is not in recess. Harry Reid and other Democrats in the past treated the current Senate pro forma business status as not being...

No one tell him, he will be insufferable

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 9 Comments

From the Coffee Shop Blog: Comment of the week. No. The Year. "I'm Barack Obama and George Soros approved this message" LukeHandCool at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion...

“they resent it when he attacks them for being to the left of positions he has very recently adopted”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 66 Comments

As long time readers know, I really didn't pay much attention to the 2008 Republican primaries. But as I've gone back in researching various issues, I've noticed that a lot of candidates in 2008 had a reaction to the way Mitt Romney ran his campaign similar...

Rick Perry not suspending campaign, going to South Carolina (Reader poll added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 37 Comments

After his announcement last night that he was returning to reassess his campaign, everyone assumed Rick Perry was going to suspend his campaign. Apparently that is not the case, as Perry just announced via Twitter that he is heading for South Carolina: This has to be the...

Bachmann Suspending Campaign

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 10 Comments

Michele Bachmann is holding a press conference any minute. She is expected to announce she is "suspending" her presidential campaign. Video to be added when available. It was a classy speech. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

McCain’s Romney baggage

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 17 Comments

John McCain is set to endorse Mitt Romney today, and I'm sure there will be plenty of platitudes. But the McCain endorsement comes with baggage, like this: “Never get into a wrestling match with a pig,” Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire this month after reporters...

About last night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 38 Comments

It was a late night, and apparently Mit Romney won by 8 votes. Don't let anyone tell you voter fraud is not a threat; what if this had been the general election and Barack Obama won by 8 votes in a state, would we not...

If only it were that easy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2012 10 Comments

Another one from John Ruberry's canoe trip: ...

Iowa Caucuses Tweets of the Night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2012 14 Comments

The election was close going down to the wire between Santorum and Romney, with no winner declared as of this writing, with both in the 24% range. Paul was at about 21%, Newt at 13%, Perry at 10%, and Bachmann at 5%. (Results not final) The...

Iowa Caucuses LIVE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2012 56 Comments

Welcome to Legal Insurrection's Iowa Caucuse live event. We will stay live until the results are in. You can comment in the Live Feed with any of the usual social media user i.d.’s such as Twitter, Facebook and Open ID (Google, Yahoo, etc.). Your Legal Insurrection...

Tomorrow we can go back to having to look up where Iowa is (*)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2012 11 Comments

Because there's a big world out there, and stuff is doing: Iran Missile Drill Results Exaggerated, Images Photoshopped Previously American Left troubled by him, but drawn to him [link fixed] US and EU Funding Palestinian Efforts to Stop "Normalization" with Israel Defiant: U.S. defiant as Iran threatens action over Navy...

Iowa Caucus Day – Open and Updates

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on January 03, 2012 12 Comments

This post will be "sticky" until early evening when we go "Live" at about 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and will collect news from Iowa during the day, with the most recent on top: --------------- With the Iowa Caucuses just a few hours away and the live event...