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Crew, Israeli Passengers Subdue Pilot Attempting to Crash Dubai–Tel Aviv Flight

Indians Hail 'Hero Pilot' Who Fought Off Mid-Air Attacker, Saved 174 Lives

Israeli Passengers Receive Hero's Welcome After Cockpit Takedown

ZDNet interview with Silent Circle CEO offers different perspective on product shutdown

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 13, 2013 11 Comments

Earlier this afternoon in a post that featured an interview with Lavabit's owner on his abrupt decision to shutdown his encrypted email service, I also mentioned the shutdown of Silent Circle's secure email service, Silent Mail. As good luck in timing would have it, ZDNet has...

Ted and Marco eligibility – I can’t put this off any longer

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 150 Comments

The analysis of the Natural Born Citizen clause in the Constitution as it applies to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. I promised to do this long ago, and did the research with the assistance of a former student, but couldn't bring myself to actually write it...

Lavabit owner’s cryptic interview on decision to shutter encrypted email service

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 13, 2013 19 Comments

Late last week, we reported that Ladar Levison, the founder of encrypted email service provider Lavabit, abruptly shut down his service without notice, leaving only a cryptic message for users and visitors to the company’s website as to the reasons behind his decision. While Levison explained...

(Dis)respect for our immigration laws tells us a lot

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

It was widely reported earlier this week that there was a mass coaching of Mexicans as to which phrases to use at the border to gain them temporary asylum, including lodging: A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in...

D.C. Circuit: Obama can’t ignore legislation just because he doesn’t like the policy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 28 Comments

Yucca Mountain ruling has important implications for Obamacare implementation and other refusals of the Obama administration to comply with congressional mandates....

Virginia State U. Accused of Suppressing Christian Student Ministries While Exempting Muslim Groups

Satirical Student Newspaper at Columbia Apologizes for Land Acknowledgment Joke

U. Illinois Chicago Students Protest Inclusion of Customs and Border Protection in Job Fair

NYU Law School to Host Lecture on ‘Socialism After AI’

Rutgers University Prof Calls for Release of Luigi Mangione

Northwestern, Cornell to Host Oct. 7 Survivor Play Amid Campus Antisemitism

More evidence Hillary is running

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 28 Comments

She's already playing the race card. To add on top of the war-on-women card. https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/367280328022302720 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy That, and Anthony Weiner's slip of the tongue (I know, not the imagery you want in the morning), Anthony Weiner: Huma Will...

Palestinian Terrorism: The Most Successful Diplomatic Initiative in History

Posted by David Gerstman on August 13, 2013 10 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 08/13/2013 - Terrorism is Diplomacy by Other Means...

Hard times require drastic measures

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2013 5 Comments

From Stephen: From South-Central Pennsylvania, where this is understood as a fanciful jest, not a terroristic threat...

Video killed the rodeo clown

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 60 Comments

A Rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair wore an Obama mask. The crowd did not want the clown to win. This video killed the rodeo clown's career: Now the clown has been fired ... permanently after an outcry from Democratic politicians. https://twitter.com/LynnEva0806805/statuses/366991513969885185

You know what needs to be done: https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/367066740447920128 Jim Hoft has some background on how clowns were treated when they made fun of Bush. But this ain't Bush. In other Obama Mask news: https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366992153047617536 https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366993874058637312

New York’s stop-and-frisk and the illusion of law by statistics

Posted by New Neo on August 12, 2013 38 Comments

How many crime victims must be sacrificed at the alter of fuzzy math?...

Chilling 911 call audio opens second week of Fort Hood shooting trial

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 12, 2013 15 Comments

The fifth day in the trial of accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan opened Monday with the testimony of a nurse who called 911 on the day of the shooting. Shemeka Hairston cried as the prosecution played the 911 recording for the courtroom. https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/366951607046377473 From the local Killeen...

The Liberty Amendments – Mark Levin’s Constitutional Sequester

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 39 Comments

Mark Levin's new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring The American Republic is out, and it proposes an ambitious set of Amendments to the Constitution: I undertook this project not because I believe the Constitution, as originally structured, is outdated and outmoded, thereby requiring modernization through amendments,...

Things you probably missed this weekend

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 9 Comments

Almost certainly. There couldn't possibly be any other reason why they didn't show her the $38,000 pocketbook: Seems like a case of Oprah upset at not being recognized as Oprah so … racist! Have you hugged your College Insurrection bloggers today? “Thank You Leslie and Aleister” Week at College Insurrection Woe...

Run, Joe, Run

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 13 Comments

for President in 2016. He's our best, and maybe only, hope. At a minimum he will generate numerous quotables regarding his likely opponent, Hillary. If by some miracle he's the nominee, it will be a big f-ing deal when it comes to our chances of winning the White...

Finding common ground in limited government: “His lips are moving”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 21 Comments

Every semester for the past couple of years I've been privileged to be a guest speaker at the Ithaca College course on Independent Media conducted by Prof. Jeff Cohen. I get to regale students with stories about Legal Insurrection, some of which are true. (FTR, all of...

Does John Kerry worry about a Palestine that reveres such monsters as the murderer of Nissim Toledano?

Posted by David Gerstman on August 12, 2013 22 Comments

"I am peace, and when I speak, they are for war" - Psalms 120:7...

Branco Cartoon – Private Spy

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 12, 2013 4 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco...