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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

Obama’s stall-speed economy

Posted by Anne Segal on September 27, 2012 14 Comments

Today the Wall Street Journal's Paul Vigna referred to the U.S. economy as the "Stall-Speed Economy" after the latest economic data was released this morning. Most striking: revised numbers show the U.S. economy grew at only a 1.3% annual rate in the April through June...

Elizabeth Warren defender: “With this bombshell, I would no longer view the case against her as weak”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2012 135 Comments

Soon after my original post, Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem, Mark Thompson at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen wrote a post taking an opposite view, No, Elizabeth Warren Did Not Engage in the Unauthorized Practice of Law. That post by Thompson was cited far and wide,...

Had I but world enough and time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2012 5 Comments

Elizabeth Warren crowd sourcing...

Elizabeth Warren represented Massachusetts client in Massachusetts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2012 82 Comments

For how long will Warren defenders maintain the charade that she did not practice law in Massachusetts?...

Which state? (Update – answer revealed)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2012 30 Comments

From reader Brian. Which state could this possibly be? Don't read the comments before voting, in case there is a spoiler. Poll open until 5 p.m. Eastern today Which state? UPDATE: It's California....

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'

Crossroads spending big in Wisconsin to defeat extremist Tammy

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 22 Comments

Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS PAC has just committed $1.2M to helping help former governor Tommy Thompson defeat his democratic opponent in the Wisconsin race for U.S. Senate. This was in additional to prior spends of $500,000 and $961,000, and puts his group's contibutions at over...

First Rahm then Ahmadinejad, now you can ask Farrakhan questions tonight

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 9 Comments

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in town to follow President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly, met with Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan along with peace activists and other members of "Abrahamic religions" on Tuesday evening. While both the U.S. and Israel delegations, among others, boycotted...

Elizabeth Warren listed Cambridge as “primary practice location” with Texas Bar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 79 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has touted that she has been a member of the Texas Bar for a long time, along with New Jersey. We knew that Warren currently was inactive in Texas, but didn't know for how long. Also, there has been a mystery as to why...

2002 – Elizabeth Warren charged $675 per hour as special legal consultant

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 74 Comments

Elizabeth Warren and her supporters have mounted an argument that what she did at her office in Cambridge for private litigants was not the practice of law. Warren herself, when confronted by a reporter after it was revealed she had no Massachusetts law license, claimed she...

Branco Cartoon – While the World Burns

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 26, 2012 8 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 Facebook page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

Republicans mount attack against election fraud within Chicago

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 10 Comments

A group of Cook County Republicans have had it with the election fraud and Democratic machine politics of Chicago. They're mounting an effort to fight back in one seemingly small, but in actual fact quite powerful, way. An effort led by suburban mom Sharon Meroni to...

Egyptian activist arrested for spray-painting over controversial pro-Israel ads

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 58 Comments

An Egyptian activist, Mona Eltahawy, was arrested yesterday in a New York City subway station as she was in the middle of spray-painting over pro-Israeli ads--and seeming to partially paint over a Manhattan mom who tried to shield the ads by standing in front of...

Candidate who used High Cheekbones and Pow Wow Chow Indian stereotypes upset at people who used Indian stereotypes

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 15 Comments

Consider this an alternative headline for last night's post. ...

The whales can wait

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2012 1 Comment

Save the Freedoms! From Linda, who took photos of this vehicle in the Costco parking lot in Franklin, TN: ...

Elizabeth Warren supporters should spare the sanctimony considering they covered for her ethnic fraud

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 31 Comments

A handful of Scott Brown supporters including a couple of staffers mocked Elizabeth Warren's phony claim to be Native American, a claim she maintains in the face of all evidence, based on grossly exaggerated (at best) supposed family lore. Warren keeps saying that kids don't ask...

Elizabeth Warren’s law license problem on Fox News today

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2012 60 Comments

It's always interesting to see how an issue you are intimately involved in plays out when it makes it to national broadcasts. Because of the time pressure on major shows, everything has to get drilled down, and sometimes things get lost. The issue of Elizabeth Warren's license...

Spaniards take to streets in Occupy Congress protest

Posted by Anne Segal on September 25, 2012 11 Comments

Chanting "si, se puede," Occupy Congress protesters in Madrid, Spain, are in a standoff with police as their all-day protest of austerity measures has now continued into the evening. A livestream of the events shows clusters of police in riot gear attempting to hold back the...