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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

FRC shooting suspect was volunteering at DC LGBT Community Center

Posted by Anne Segal on August 15, 2012 53 Comments

It has just been confirmed that Family Research Council shooting suspect Floyd Corkins II had been volunteering at the DC Center for the LGBT Community for the past six months. From the AP: David Mariner is executive director of The DC Center for the LGBT Community. He says Corkins...

Branco cartoon – Medi-Thief

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 15, 2012 11 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 Freedom’s Battle . ...

HuffPo attacks Family Research Council just hours after shooting

Posted by Anne Segal on August 15, 2012 35 Comments

Huffington Post has an article promoted on its front page, published today at 1:36pm, from an "LGBT rights activist" referring to the Family Research Council as an "extreme right-wing group" and a "hate group": ...

Shooting at Family Research Council headquarters

Posted by Anne Segal on August 15, 2012 44 Comments

Will media rush to judgment?...

Operation Counterweight – The final list

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2012 12 Comments

Operation Counterweight, the electoral strategy for the rest of us, is intended to help provide a counterweight to conservatives being sold out in two ways. First, we must elect more conservative Republicans. Second, we must hold the House majority and take back the Senate by a sufficient majority that...

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

If looks could kill

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2012 39 Comments

Paul Ryan would not have been able to walk out of the room, because Obama obviously was furious. From Andrew Malcolm, who says, See for yourself why Romney picked Paul Ryan: ...

No longer bi-curious

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2012 34 Comments

From reader and frequent photographer Matt in Colorado: I think this pretty much sums it all up. As my dad says, "Look at what 200 years of republicans compromising with democrats has gotten us. $15 Trillion in debt and nothing to show for it." ...

Wisconsin Republican Senate Primary Results (Update – AP calls it for Thompson)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2012 33 Comments

% Reporting - 92 √Thompson - 34.3 Hovde - 30.7 Neumann - 22.8 Fitzgerald - 12.2 11:30 Eastern - AP Calls race for former Governor Tommy Thompson -- the more conservative/Tea Party vote was split between Hovde and Neumann, with Fitzgerald pulling in just over 10%, allowing Thompson to...

As least Joe Biden didn’t say we want them to die

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2012 58 Comments

The joke on America continues. And another entry that cannot wait until Saturday night. I'm not sure if Biden will make it to the election, or if Dems will opt for a more sensible Veep on the ticket: ...

Glimpse inside the Romney/Ryan rally in Waukesha

Posted by Anne Segal on August 14, 2012 13 Comments

I attended the Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney rally in Waukesha, WI, this past Sunday evening, where the crowd of nearly 10,000 mirrored other huge turnouts around the country. There was a group of about 15 protesters, organized by SEIU, Obama for America, and MoveOn.org, lining the entrance...

Whistleblower asserts state employees coerced to attend Pelosi, Jesse Jackson political event

Posted by Anne Segal on August 14, 2012 27 Comments

A whistleblower former employee of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISACorps) has revealed that she was coerced to attend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH partisan forum with Nancy Pelosi, pose for photo ops, given instructions on loading students up with student debt, and then reimbursed travel...

Yes, Ron Wyden built that Medicare plan with Paul Ryan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2012 38 Comments

Ron Wyden has rolled out a Cory Booker-like hostage statement rejecting the notion that he and Paul Ryan cooperated in developing a solution to the looming Medicare collapse. Via Roll Call, Ron Wyden Takes Issue With Mitt Romney Linking Him to Paul Ryan: At a Saturday...

wrong?!?!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2012 5 Comments

From reader Desert Viking: Saw this today in the parking lot at Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ. As I was taking the picture the owner was getting into car. They said that people take pictures and comment on it all the time. While it's parked at school...

Hey Paul Ryan haters, your congressional insider trader suspect actually is Sheldon Whitehouse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 31 Comments

Paul Ryan falsely was accused today by left-wing bloggers, most notably Matthew Yglesias (formerly of Think Progress now of Slate), of insider trading based on confidential information provided by the Treasury Secretary to Congress on September 18, 2008. That day, Ryan traded Citigroup stock. The accusation fell...

Happy Victory Day!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 13 Comments

to the rest of the country, from the only state which still celebrates it. We've change the name to disguise the purpose of the day. Because disclosing the Victory we are commemorating would be so incorrect. It's like everyone gets a trophy day. Anyway, for those of...

Palin (not) at Republican National Convention

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 60 Comments

There seems to be an unusual lack of clarity here, as Ed Morrissey notes in a post earlier this afternoon. Various news reports indicate Palin will not be giving a speech, but it's unclear if she was not invited to speak, given such a poor time...