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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

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...

Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

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...

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...

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...