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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders "Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish"

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

Media on trial at tonight’s presidential debate

Posted by Anne Segal on October 16, 2012 21 Comments

The standing of the media may be what is most at stake in tonight's debate, as moderator CNN's Candy Crowley comes under intense scrutiny after perceived "fails" by Jim Lehrer and Martha Raddatz in the two past debates. Both the Romney and Obama campaigns have jointly...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 21

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 16, 2012 3 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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 21 days to go. Today’s Empty Chair photo comes to us from LI reader Larry who plays on the...

Common peasantry joins with kulaks against Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 20 Comments

The much demonized kulaks (a/k/a the top 5%, 2%, 0r 1% depending upon the speech) were the first to rise up against Obama. Now the kulaks have been joined by the common peasantry, via NPR: As Mitt Romney and President Obama get ready for their second debate, a...

Encouraging signs for Mia B. Love (UT-04)

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 16, 2012 6 Comments

October has been a month full of good news for Mia Love. The Operation Counterweight member running for Congress in Utah's newly created 4th Congressional District has faced an uphill battle since she entered the race. She began her campaign in the Republican primary with little...

Obama will travel to Chicago to vote early

Posted by Anne Segal on October 16, 2012 11 Comments

President Obama has announced he will travel back to his adopted hometown of Chicago to vote early on October 25. This will be the first time a presidential candidate has not voted in person on Election Day. Michelle Obama voted absentee a few days ago. Michelle...

Trump Suspends Green Card Program That Allowed Brown U. Shooting Suspect Into U.S.

Yale has Shockingly Low Number of Republican Professors

Trinity College Resurrects Debate About Removing Confederate Memorial Plaque From Campus

The Resurgence in American Antisemitism Comes From Our Education System

Arab Activist Group Plans K-12 Push

U. Alabama Professors Launch Appeal, Claiming That DEI Ban is 'Censorship'

Obama’s Progressivism: the Least Good for the Smallest Number

Posted by Joel Engel on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

The guiding principle of the then-new Progressive Movement more than a century ago was: The greatest good for the greatest number of people. Which was verbatim the rationale invoked by President Teddy Roosevelt when, in 1905, he approved construction of the aqueduct that would steal...

Fish Ask: Does this LA Times Make Me Stink?

Posted by Joel Engel on October 16, 2012 14 Comments

Unlike the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times doesn’t have a motto. But if it did, this would work: All the news that's fit to print for people who don't know any better, reported by those who don't want you to. Exhibit 7,593,648: A front-page...

Burn me once, shame on you

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

Some timeless advice from commenter vonbeck2, taken in Mandeville, LA: As I am always on the look-out for something out of the norm I spotted this and was lucky enough to be able to snap a pick at a red light. I think this is excellent advice....

Supporters of Scott Brown taunted as “field” and “house” blacks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

First it was union members being fined for not picketing for Elizabeth Warren. Then it was Warren supporters taunting a gay staffer with Scott Brown's campaign. Now black supporters of Scott Brown have received the sort of racially based taunts that we have seen directed in the...

Former US Attorney calls for investigation of Elizabeth Warren law license problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2012 37 Comments

Attack the messenger is the defense once again....

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 22

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 15, 2012 3 Comments

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 22 days to go. Today’s Empty Chair photo comes to us from Rod in Texas who writes, "My wife...

Nothing says “trust my political judgment” like dressing up in a Big Bird costume

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2012 14 Comments

Please, please keep doing what you're doing, seriously....

DC Metro to release 2013 inauguration fare cards as 2009 stock still remains

Posted by Anne Segal on October 15, 2012 9 Comments

The DC Metro is planning once again to release 100,000 "commemorative fare" paper ($14) and plastic SmarTrip ($15) metro cards for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. The proposed designs depict either Obama or Romney with accompanying pictures and a slogan. President Obama was the...

Elizabeth Warren’s credit card fundraising problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2012 18 Comments

Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million in the third quarter, compared to $7.45 million for Scott Brown. It is not yet known how much cash on hand Warren has, but Brown has $10.2 million. There is a problem, though. Warren uses credit card portals which do not...

Forbes, CNN destroy Obama administration’s Benghazi lie

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 15, 2012 42 Comments

Forbes contributor, Larry Bell, released an article late last night entitled, "Pants On Fire: Obama Administration Scrambles for Cover as Benghazi Lie Explodes." The article, drawing on reports from CNN, reveals a picture the Obama administration is desperately trying to sweep under the rug. President Obama's foreign...

Candy?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 15, 2012 42 Comments

It's really hard for the Commission on Presidential Debates to find truly neutral moderators, because of how neutral is perceived. If the moderator were from Fox News, even if a non-ideological news person like Bret Baier, there would be howls of protest from the Obama campaign...

Branco Cartoon – Three Words

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 15, 2012 6 Comments

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