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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

RNC Thursday Night Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 55 Comments

All you need to know about the media reaction can be summed up in one word: JournoList. Same players still, just in more influential positions. But that's for another day, maybe even tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to try not to let the stuck pigs distract me from...

Dan Bongino video – We Will Rise

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 30, 2012 10 Comments

A few days ago, Operation Counterweight member Dan Bongino released a new web ad. Much like his previous ads, this one again channels a positive message centered around the promise of America. It's a refreshing change of pace from the mudslinging that generally accompanies the vast...

Have you hugged your College Insurrection today?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 1 Comment

If you don't visit College Insurrection every day, you are missing great posts like these: Busting the myth of a liberal student majority Beware attempts to ban “hate speech” on campus College Republicans Take Prime Seat at GOP Convention Chick-fil-A boycotts coming to a campus near you Maryland Bd of...

Faded Poster

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 18 Comments

The line in Paul Ryan's speech about college grads living at home staring at a faded Obama poster was brilliant: College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and...

Texas Voter I.D. law thrown out

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

Texas is not doing well with federal judges in the District of Columbia. Days ago a three judge panel threw out Texas' redistricting maps, now a different panel has thrown out the Voter I.D. law. (Opinion embedded below) This analysis from Rick Hanson at Election Law...

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

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Branco Cartoon – Blackout

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 30, 2012 18 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 ...

Fact checkers self-destructing over Ryan speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 62 Comments

If you have been following the internets, you can see an anaphylactic reaction among supposed "fact checkers" over Paul Ryan's brilliantly effective speech last night. The section about the closing of a GM plant in Janesville during the Obama administration has been a particular area of attention...

Elizabeth Warren Cabbie story gets even weirder

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 29 Comments

Cabbie was Warren's driver for the day, says had daughter in car at time...

From Cool to …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 2 Comments

From Mike in Wisconsin: Saw this in line at McD's this a.m. Lady driver. Must not have heard of the "war on women" yet. Keep up the good work! ...

RNC Wednesday Night Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 77 Comments

Couple of thoughts before the big Ryan speech. This always was going to be a multi-stage fight. The first and highest priority is removing Obama from office and Democrats from control of the Senate. But after that, and assuming it happens, there will be the Republican establishment...

Zimmerman judge kicked off case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 25 Comments

Via AP (h/t Samuel Keck in Tip Line) A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case. Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday...

Hillary Clinton joins slew of Democrats abandoning the DNC ship

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on August 29, 2012 36 Comments

I first wrote back in June that Missouri Senator Claire MacAskill's effort to distance herself from the President by skipping out on the DNC was "not a bad strategy." In July, I reported that Nancy Pelosi had essentially endorsed it as the "official strategy" of Congressional...

Kulaks raising their banners high

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 22 Comments

It's not just Ray Gaster who is raising the "I built this" banner. Readers have forwarded photos they just took of other businesses with similar signage. From Sara: Hi @Legal Insurrection. Here's what a sign business in Boca Raton, Florida is prominently displaying. Eight minutes ago in 91-degree post-Isaac...

“nor can a peace be brokered”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 54 Comments

The title isn't about the Middle East, although it could be. It's John Nolte's persuasive analysis of the mainstream media in light of the hot mic comment initially thought to come from an ABC News staff member that the Romneys are "happy to party while black...