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Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 10, 2012 10 Comments

As always, the usual caveats. We're still roughly four weeks out from election day and there are plenty of things that can happen between now and then. That being said, this new poll shows Romney looking strong one week after his debate with the President. In the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 18 Comments

Some of us want Obama supporters to cry themselves to sleep on November 6, others just want to wipe the smug grins off their faces. I say, why not both? I don't know what it is about the "It's Working, You're Welcome" sticker that gets under my skin more...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 09, 2012 9 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Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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 28 days to go. Today's symbolic Empty Chair photo comes to us from Rachel in New York who writes,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 22 Comments

Tonight I'm speaking at the Cornell Club in New York City, similar to my talk last year arguing that "the Tea Party movement has been among the most influential and most positive forces in American politics in a generation." The lecture this time is on a...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 23 Comments

I had the pleasue of spending a full hour on the radio with Dan Rea at WBZ 1030 (CBS Boston), a true superstation that covers all of New England and into New York. Dan made a point during the hour that character matters, and that Elizabeth Warren's character...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 09, 2012 17 Comments

High school teacher Debbie Polhemus took her own stand against free speech yesterday when she covered pro-Israel advertisements in a Washington, D.C, metro station with yellow sticky notes. Polhemus was not arrested or cited for vandalism. In a similarly convoluted line of reasoning to New York...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 09, 2012 48 Comments

It doesn't particularly matter who does, just as long as he's mentioned. Perhaps Joe Biden will think he can get a jab in at the Romney campaign for threatening to cut the funding to PBS. Or maybe Paul Ryan will choose to bring it up sua...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 09, 2012 33 Comments

Clearly Americans for Prosperity has been doing their deep-values research. Because the innovative video they released Friday, "The Dinner Table," hits exactly the right emotions in a remarkably effective piece depicting the traditional family dinner table scene. Only in this new American scene, not a word...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 79 Comments

Another post which cannot wait for the Saturday Night Card Game. Mark Lamont Hill, The 15 Most Overrated White People: Today, our nation engages in one of its most bizarre cultural rituals: the celebration of Columbus Day as a national holiday. Although history proves that Christopher Columbus...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 09, 2012 17 Comments

Since the presidential debate last week I’ve been trying to remember where I saw this movie before, as it were—where a man considered a member of the elite, the cognoscenti, whose brilliance is considered by millions of admirers to be self evident and unimpeachable, got...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 8 Comments

in 2012. From reader ProfShadow: Here is one from Jacksonville, Florida on Friday, Sept 21 ...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 08, 2012 8 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 29 days to go. Today's heart-felt Empty Chair photo comes to us from Doug, Sue, Jed, and Jessica in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 16 Comments

We have featured The Iveys before to a very good reader reaction. The band members are the cousins of LI reader, photographer (also, here, here) and West Texas correspondent Danelle, who also happens to be one of the first to email me whenever I get a national media reference,...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 08, 2012 29 Comments

I know a woman who immediately covers her ears when the topic gets to Obama and what he’s done wrong and what he hasn’t done right.  She doesn’t believe any of the things she accidentally overhears and accuses me of making it up.  “Where do...

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