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Anti-ICE Church Invaders Chanted Fabricated BLM "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Slogan

Virginia on Fire: Insane Legislative Blitz on Tax Hikes, Sentencing Rollbacks

"A lot of people mistake this as a fight to save education. It's not. It's a fight to save the country."

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...

You can’t fight prejudice if you engage in race-bating, Marc Lamont Hill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 79 Comments

Another post which cannot wait for the Saturday Night Card Game. Mark Lamont Hill, The 15 Most Overrated White People: Today, our nation engages in one of its most bizarre cultural rituals: the celebration of Columbus Day as a national holiday. Although history proves that Christopher Columbus...

Where the Elite Meet to Swallow Bitter Pills

Posted by Joel Engel on October 09, 2012 17 Comments

Since the presidential debate last week I’ve been trying to remember where I saw this movie before, as it were—where a man considered a member of the elite, the cognoscenti, whose brilliance is considered by millions of admirers to be self evident and unimpeachable, got...

Elizabeth Warren represented large utility seeking to liquidate rural electric cooperative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 35 Comments

Contrary to campaign claim, Warren client sought to liquidate Cajun Electric Cooperative to aquire Big Cajun coal-fired plant...

Federal Judge Shielding Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Activists From Deportation

New Hampshire College Students Divided on Campus Carry Bill

Physicians Raise Concerns About ‘Decolonizing Medicine’ Class at U. Maryland

Arizona School District Suffers Enrollment Loss as Many Parents Choose Charter Schools

CU Boulder Prof Calls U.S. a 'Fascist Authoritarian Regime' in Newsletter

U. Arkansas Rescinds Offer to Law School Dean Over Advocacy for Transgender Athletes

Change

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 8 Comments

in 2012. From reader ProfShadow: Here is one from Jacksonville, Florida on Friday, Sept 21 ...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 29

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 08, 2012 8 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 29 days to go. Today's heart-felt Empty Chair photo comes to us from Doug, Sue, Jed, and Jessica in...

The Iveys – In The Dark

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 16 Comments

We have featured The Iveys before to a very good reader reaction. The band members are the cousins of LI reader, photographer (also, here, here) and West Texas correspondent Danelle, who also happens to be one of the first to email me whenever I get a national media reference,...

A Tale of Two Times

Posted by Joel Engel on October 08, 2012 29 Comments

I know a woman who immediately covers her ears when the topic gets to Obama and what he’s done wrong and what he hasn’t done right. She doesn’t believe any of the things she accidentally overhears and accuses me of making it up. “Where do...

Elizabeth Warren law license problem goes to Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 26 Comments

MA Republican Party asks Court to correct BBO General Counsel's misstatements of law and perceived "partisan agenda"...

No wonder Obama supporters upset at Jim Lehrer

Posted by Anne Segal on October 08, 2012 40 Comments

Lehrer technique permitted "a clear view into his head and heart"...

Branco Cartoon – October

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 08, 2012 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 Facebook page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

The Money Badger don’t care about your fundraising rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 27 Comments

There is an investigative report released today at both Breitbart.com an Townhall and Breitbart.com detailing how weak or non-existent security controls allow foreigners to funnel money to the Obama campaign: OFA seems to be taking advantage of a “foreign donor loophole” by not using CVV on...

Boston Globe columnist claims Elizabeth Warren’s family suffered anti-Indian discrimination

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 41 Comments

The world officially has gone insane...

David Cicilline’s Cover Up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 2 Comments

I posted yesterday about the race between David Cicilline (D RI-01) and Republican Brendan Doherty. Cicilline has managed to pull into a small lead because of an over-the-top Mediscare campaign and faded memories of Cicilline's cover-up of Providence's financial disaster. The Doherty campaign has just launched a...

Obama money!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2012 9 Comments

From reader Mori: I spotted this today at the library in Carlsbad, CA. Not sure if you've posted this one. I'm noticing more Romney stickers than Obama stickers...

The paragraph which has not yet been written

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2012 25 Comments

The paragraph which has not yet been written: A beleaguered people suffering under economic hardship due to the crony statist policies of a political bully who played upon class divisions and used hand-outs to the poor as a political tool, have elected to the presidency a...