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

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

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 27

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 10, 2012 1 Comment

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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 27 days to go. Today's great Empty Chair photo comes to us courtesy of Kathy in Utah who writes,...

Brown-Warren Springfield Debate (Update – Moderator avoids asking Warren character questions)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 21 Comments

This is the third of four debates, being held in Western Massachusetts. It starts at 7 p.m. Eastern. You can watch it on CSPAN on television or online, or live fees at masslive.com, policymic.com and bostonherald.com. There will not be a "live" blog tonight, but you can...

People Died, Obama Lied

Posted by Joel Engel on October 10, 2012 32 Comments

In yet another story that you won’t find in the New York Times, Charlie Spiering in the Washington Examiner reported that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to meet President Obama at the White House today “as more damaging details about the terrorist attack against a United...

Elizabeth Warren’s implausible Dow Chemical claim

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 21 Comments

Warren represented Dow Chemical at a time it was denying any liability for breast implant claims...

Chicago Tribune withholds endorsement for Jesse Jackson Jr.

Posted by Anne Segal on October 10, 2012 10 Comments

The Chicago Tribune announced today that it is withholding its endorsement for AWOL Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., given his now more than four-month-long absence from attending to his duties in the House of Representatives. The Tribune editorial page, which has endorsed Jackson in the past,...

Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

Branco Cartoon – Ad Dump

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 10, 2012 8 Comments

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Organizing For America caught assisting double voting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 20 Comments

The DNC operation which serves as a de facto arm of the Obama campaign. From James O'Keefe at the Project Veritas website: Project Veritas has released a new investigation that exposes Obama campaign workers, including a Regional Field Director at Organizing for America (OFA), engaged in election fraud. According to...

The Libya Lie

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 23 Comments

The narrative is unraveling for the Obama administration. The depth of the deceit and cover up for political purposes should in itself lose the election for Obama. But it probably won't. This complilation by The Heritage Foundation lays out the timeline of the deceit: Update: Via Babalu,...

Rasmussen swing state poll swings toward Romney

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...

Elizabeth Warren dare not show the box she checked

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 36 Comments

If Warren released her employment records it likely would destroy her campaign...

If it motivates you, it can’t be that bad

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...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 28

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,...

This ain’t no Open House Party

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...

Character still matters in the MA Senate race

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...

Teacher covers up “anti-Islam” metro ads in copycat attack

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...

I really hope someone brings up Big Bird at the next debate

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...

AFP’s Dinner Table video a punch in Obama’s gut

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...