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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

Saturday Night Card Game (When Chris Matthews says Romney is “arrogant” what he means is …)

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

Come on Chris, just say that Mitt Romney is whipping up racism. You spent almost the entire RNC doing that. It's your claim to fame, your reason to be on television, your destiny. Why are you being so coy now, calling Romney "arrogant" for challenging Obama,...

Who’s afraid of the Arab Street? Part 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2012 25 Comments

When will The NY Times be held accountable for its deception?...

Obama shoots the First Amendment, aims later

Posted by Joel Engel on September 15, 2012 35 Comments

The Chinese (allegedly) have a curse: May you live in interesting times. These are interesting times. It is hard to overstate the significance of what it means when the free exercise of our First Amendment rights while not breaking any laws leads to this: A Southern California filmmaker...

“The Obama Effect” vs. “2016: Obama’s America”

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on September 15, 2012 11 Comments

Both of these movies were released on July 13 of this year. A few months ago, I wrote about how at first glance, "The Obama Effect" appeared to be some kind of parody video. Sadly (for Obama supporters), it was a very real, but fruitless, attempt...

Branco Cartoon – Pants Down

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 15, 2012 7 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 ...

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

California pitching Hollywood for sitcoms, reality shows to sell Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2012 21 Comments

There are times it seems overwhelming how corrupted various aspects of society have become in the effort to impose Obamacare on the country. Hollywood is being pitched by the ad agency hired by California to promote its Obamacare health exchanges to promote Obamacare through sitcoms, reality shows...

A law student’s response to JFK’s grandson’s plea for youth to reelect Obama

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on September 15, 2012 33 Comments

To Jack Schlossberg: My name is Bryan Jacoutot. I’m 23 years old, and a second year law student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. I recently had the opportunity to read your opinion piece on CNN that called on our nation's youth to reelect Barack Obama...

Well, they do say a picture is worth

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2012 6 Comments

16 trillion words. From reader Scott in western upstate New York: Saw this sticker at my local Wegman's today and had to share. Good sticker. ...

Fantasy v. Reality

Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 48 Comments

There has been a complete lack of reality this week in our government and media. Words are not deeds. This is especially important to remember if you're the President of the United States who has essentially talked himself into office. Behold a paragraph from President Obama’s stirring...

It’s never really over in Wisconsin, is it? Dane County Judge throws out collective bargaining reform law

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 40 Comments

And the wheel keeps turning in Wisconsin. The long, strange trip is not over. First it was Dane County Judge Sumi who interjected herself into the legislative process by striking down the collective bargaining reform law, only to be overturned by the State Supreme Court which...

Operation Counterweight Upstate NY Week – Maggie Brooks (NY-25)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 3 Comments

With the world collapsing around us, it's more important than ever that we not forget about holding the House. Please check out the House races including on the Operation Counterweight final list and consider a donation today. This is the last post in our focus on the Upstate...

Obama abandons Chicago teachers just like he did Wisconsin’s public unions

Posted by Anne Segal on September 14, 2012 15 Comments

Why is Obama abandoning the Chicago Teachers Union, just as he abandoned the Wisconsin unions during the Walker recall? As the Chicago Teachers Union strike drags on another day without an agreement, and a CTU lawyer says the next hope is that an agreement will be...

Branco Cartoon – Priorities USA

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 14, 2012 17 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 ...

Obama leads from behind as violence in Middle East escalates

Posted by Anne Segal on September 14, 2012 27 Comments

Violence continues to erupt across the Middle East and North Africa today following the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya on September 11 that killed the ambassador and three others Americans. An interactive map of the violence is available from National Journal detailing where and what is...

This week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 1 Comment

It was free speech week. How fitting, I hope we didn't insult anyone or hurt their feelings. Guest post by Senior V.P. at F.I.R.E., “If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!” Discriminatory Words? Swarthmore College’s War on Sororities Follow up the the breast-feeding in...

California: Once Golden, Now Just Toast

Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 28 Comments

California, you may have heard, is broke. Really broke. So broke that yesterday the Regents of the University of California began brainstorming what to do should additional revenues fail to materialize in the event Governor Jerry Brown’s pet initiative to raise taxes fails at the...

Obama’s Great Islamist Delusion has come home to roost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 70 Comments

Well, that didn't work out so well. We cast aside Hosni Mubarak on a moment's notice without taking steps to give non-Islamist parties a timetable to organize an effective transition; we overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, teaching tyrants the lesson that giving up nuclear ambitions is a deadly...