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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

Fareed Zakaria suspended from CNN and Time for plagiarism “mistake”

Posted by Anne Segal on August 13, 2012 29 Comments

CNN host and Time magazine contributor Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both outlets after Newsbusters reported Friday he had plagiarized a column. It was Cam Edwards of NRA News who first noticed the irregularity; he then tipped off Tim Graham at Newsbusters. Tim Graham of...

Branco cartoon – Shovel Ready

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 13, 2012 14 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 . ...

Candy “Ryan Ticket Death Wish” Crowley to moderate presidential debate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 52 Comments

What the hell was the Presidential Commission on Debates thinking? I realize it is hard to find any MSM person who is neutral much less perceived as neutral, but really ...

Harder, Harder

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 28 Comments

I've been waiting for Romney's SuperPAC to go after Obama the way it went after Newt. We're not there yet, but getting closer. ...

Dem electoral strategy – convince Grandparents to throw Grandchildren off fiscal cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 36 Comments

There is no more misleading imagery than the ad run by Democrats in which a Paul Ryan-looking figure throws Granny off a cliff due to Medicare cuts: The ad has it exactly opposite to reality. Republican proposals would keep Medicare the same for people already in...

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

Is that anatomically possible?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2012 16 Comments

Saw this not far from my home in Rhode Island. Not really sure what to make of it. I can think of a few possibilities. ...

Huge Romney-Ryan rally in Waukesha, WI (photos)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 53 Comments

Anne is at the Romney-Ryan rally in Waukesha. She says the crowd is so large they had to move the rally from indoors to outdoors to accommodate all the people. We're still trying to confirm the crowd size estimate. (Campaign says 10,000, which is similar to...

Muslim Brotherhood President sacks Egyptian military command

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 39 Comments

Muslim Brotherhood member President Mohamed Morsi has sacked the senior Egyptian military command, the primary secular counterweight to Islamist fundamentalist control of Egypt. As reported by The Times of Israel: Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi fired Defense Minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff Sami Anan on Sunday afternoon,...

This is what 2012 looks like — lines around the block at Romney-Ryan rally in High Point, NC (Update – Overflow crowds in Mooresville)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 103 Comments

Let this be a lesson for The Eeyores Among Us From reader Tim who is at the Romney-Ryan appearance in High Point, North Carolina: Going into the doors. Holy moly I can't believe the people. One picture is the front of the line, one picture kinda the back,...

The Eeyores Among Us

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 72 Comments

The Choice Election. That seems to be the consensus emerging about how the Ryan pick changes the race. Democrats claim to be ecstatic about it -- it seems to me they are trying much too hard to convince themselves and demoralize us. There are few if any...

Why is The Boston Globe letting Elizabeth Warren decide whom it can interview?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 17 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi runs ACORN-successor Demos, which has promoted her mother's political ambitions for years. No surprise when Demos filed suit in May against Massachusetts, and then the Democrats who run the state promptly capitulated and agreed to unprecedented efforts to register welfare...

The Choice is clear

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 13 Comments

From frequent photographer Bill: Maybe there is "hope"! St. Petersburg, Florida. ...

The way I feel tonight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 58 Comments

More motivated than ever. It might have been that way regardless of the Veep pick, but the immediate attempt by the mainstream media and liberal magazines and newspapers to Palinize Paul Ryan brought back bitter memories of the type which motivated me for the...

Saturday Night Card Game (The first race card has been played against Paul Ryan)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 48 Comments

Well, that didn't take long. When it became clear that Paul Ryan would be the Veep nominee this morning, the New York State Immigrant Action Center posted what might be the first race card play against Ryan as Veep nominee, accusing him of using the allegedly...