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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

Video – Freedom to Succeed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 16 Comments

From Kevin Rennie's Daily Ructions: Greenwich, Connecticut resident Thomas Peterffy takes to the airwaves today to speak of the blessings of freedom. He’s an authority. Peterffy was born, according to Forbes, in Hungary in 1944 “during a Russian bombing raid.” He made it to America in...

Remember, Biden refers to Obama as the “math wiz”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 4 Comments

I wonder if there will be any math questions tonight, like, how much is 10 trillion plus 6 trillion. From reader and frequent photographer Kathy: While visiting relatives in VA, saw this car and snapped the picture at a red light. Paul Ryan was in town today (Harrisonburg)....

Fisher v. U. Texas could have been avoided

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 9 Comments

Argument was heard today in the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas. The issues, as summarized at ScotusBlog were: This morning the Court heard oral arguments in what is likely to be one of the highest-profile cases of this Term: Fisher v. University of...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 27

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 10, 2012 1 Comment

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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 27 days to go. Today's great Empty Chair photo comes to us courtesy of Kathy in Utah who writes,...

Brown-Warren Springfield Debate (Update – Moderator avoids asking Warren character questions)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 21 Comments

This is the third of four debates, being held in Western Massachusetts. It starts at 7 p.m. Eastern. You can watch it on CSPAN on television or online, or live fees at masslive.com, policymic.com and bostonherald.com. There will not be a "live" blog tonight, but you can...

Minneapolis's 'ICE Watch' Network is Getting People Killed

College Board Bans Wearing of Smart Glasses While Taking the SAT

Student Government at Stanford Endorses Anti-ICE Walkout

U. Cincinnati Students Arrested After Breaking Into School Arena, Stealing Alcohol

Quinnipiac U. Reports Case of Norovirus in Residence Hall

NH Lawmaker Pushing Campus Carry is Also a Student at UNH

People Died, Obama Lied

Posted by Joel Engel on October 10, 2012 32 Comments

In yet another story that you won’t find in the New York Times, Charlie Spiering in the Washington Examiner reported that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to meet President Obama at the White House today “as more damaging details about the terrorist attack against a United...

Elizabeth Warren’s implausible Dow Chemical claim

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 21 Comments

Warren represented Dow Chemical at a time it was denying any liability for breast implant claims...

Chicago Tribune withholds endorsement for Jesse Jackson Jr.

Posted by Anne Segal on October 10, 2012 10 Comments

The Chicago Tribune announced today that it is withholding its endorsement for AWOL Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., given his now more than four-month-long absence from attending to his duties in the House of Representatives. The Tribune editorial page, which has endorsed Jackson in the past,...

Branco Cartoon – Ad Dump

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 10, 2012 8 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 ...

Organizing For America caught assisting double voting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 20 Comments

The DNC operation which serves as a de facto arm of the Obama campaign. From James O'Keefe at the Project Veritas website: Project Veritas has released a new investigation that exposes Obama campaign workers, including a Regional Field Director at Organizing for America (OFA), engaged in election fraud. According to...

The Libya Lie

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 23 Comments

The narrative is unraveling for the Obama administration. The depth of the deceit and cover up for political purposes should in itself lose the election for Obama. But it probably won't. This complilation by The Heritage Foundation lays out the timeline of the deceit: Update: Via Babalu,...

Rasmussen swing state poll swings toward Romney

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 10, 2012 10 Comments

As always, the usual caveats. We're still roughly four weeks out from election day and there are plenty of things that can happen between now and then. That being said, this new poll shows Romney looking strong one week after his debate with the President. In the...

Elizabeth Warren dare not show the box she checked

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 36 Comments

If Warren released her employment records it likely would destroy her campaign...

If it motivates you, it can’t be that bad

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 18 Comments

Some of us want Obama supporters to cry themselves to sleep on November 6, others just want to wipe the smug grins off their faces. I say, why not both? I don't know what it is about the "It's Working, You're Welcome" sticker that gets under my skin more...

Election Day Empty Chair Countdown – Day 28

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 09, 2012 9 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 28 days to go. Today's symbolic Empty Chair photo comes to us from Rachel in New York who writes,...

This ain’t no Open House Party

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 22 Comments

Tonight I'm speaking at the Cornell Club in New York City, similar to my talk last year arguing that "the Tea Party movement has been among the most influential and most positive forces in American politics in a generation." The lecture this time is on a...

Character still matters in the MA Senate race

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2012 23 Comments

I had the pleasue of spending a full hour on the radio with Dan Rea at WBZ 1030 (CBS Boston), a true superstation that covers all of New England and into New York. Dan made a point during the hour that character matters, and that Elizabeth Warren's character...