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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

More confrontation outside Chicago Chick-fil-A

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 31 Comments

There was another protest outside the Chicago Chick-fil-A last night, but unlike the other day when Anne filmed, there were protesters on each side of the issue. Rebel Pundit has the video, involving Father Gerald O'Reilly being jeered by anti-Chick-fil-A protesters and seemingly led away by...

Pointing out media double standard is not “crying racism”

Posted by Anne Segal on August 09, 2012 20 Comments

Jack Fowler of National Review Online writes about the double standard perpetuated by the media, recently at-play in coverage of the anti-Chick-fil-A activists we videotaped this week. Fowler points out that if the situation had been reversed, there is a distinct possibility that this *might* have made the mainstream...

Rachel didn’t get a call from the President

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 63 Comments

The Rachels built America. The Sandras just feed off of it. The Sandras get calls from this President, the Rachels don't. Via DailyRushbo: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

If there were no video, would this have been a teachable moment?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 40 Comments

Another fabricated hate crime, this time by a gay man who claimed to have been beaten outside a bar. Via NY Daily News: A 22-year-old Montana man who told cops he was beaten up by gay-bashing thugs while club-hopping on his birthday — igniting calls online for...

Exit right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 7 Comments

From commenter Calypso Facto: Bumper stickers ...

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

New poll shows Mourdock with small lead

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2012 5 Comments

After two months of attack ads from Richard Lugar, and Lugar and his supporters slow to help, it's not surprising that Richard Mourdock is just a little bit ahead of Joe Donnelly in the latest Rasmussen Poll (via Power Line): The U.S. Senate race in Indiana...

Allen West serves Chick-fil-A to Cong. Black Caucus, impeached fed judge (D-FL) upset

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2012 82 Comments

I'm not sure on whom this reflects more poorly, Alcee Hastings (D-FL, ex-Judge, 1 of 8 fed officials ever successfully impeached, now sometimes spokesman for your Democratic Party), or HuffPo for actually reporting this nonsense. But it's out there, and has been picked up many places,...

Branco cartoon – Who’s Robbin’ Whom

Posted by A.F. Branco on August 08, 2012 13 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, and you may make a donation to him at his website. ...

Elizabeth Warren daughter secretly behind effort by Mass to register 500k welfare recipients (Update – Court docs added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2012 68 Comments

The news broke today that Massachusetts has taken extraordinary efforts in response to a lawsuit by a former ACORN affiliated, Soros-funded group to register 500,000 welfare recipients to vote (who would have thought there were that many people on welfare considering Mass has only 6.5...

Obama skipping big Chicago African-American parade, but in town for fundraisers

Posted by Anne Segal on August 08, 2012 42 Comments

This Saturday, Chicago will hold its annual Bud Billiken Parade, "the oldest and largest African American parade in the country," without its previously announced Grand Marshall President Barack Obama. Organizers were surprised to learn in late June that he would be backing out; what is even...

Help Anne reach the Big 250

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2012 7 Comments

I am now willing to classify Anne's video of the taunting of the street preacher in Chicago as "viral' now that it has reached over 186,000 views on YouTube. But I think we can do better. I happen to know that Anne really was hoping for 250,000...

Elizabeth Warren must prove she never was a factory owner

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

We know that Elizabeth Warren was not Cherokee or any other Native American tribe when she listed herself that way for the national law faculty directory, at U. Penn. and Harvard Law Schools for federal reporting purposes, and as a "woman of color" in the Harvard...

Words, just words

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

From reader Joseph: Tolerance and respect are only workable if Jews consider themselves the equivalent of fish meal. Taken in Teaneck, NJ, a town with a large Orthodox Jewish population. ...

Woman in anti-Romney SuperPAC Death Ad actually had insurance

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2012 76 Comments

The lying liars and the lies they tell. A SuperPAC run by former Obama spokesman Bill Burton accused Mitt Romney of killing a woman because she lost insurance when her husband's job was terminated. CNN has blown this ad apart, finding that the woman continued to have...

Missouri Republican Senate Primary Results (Open)(Update – Akin wins)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2012 17 Comments

% Reporting - 80.3 √Akin - 36.3 Brunner - 29.8 Steelman - 29.2 11:10 p.m. Eastern -- AP calls race for Akin I don't know much about Akin, but he apparently is the one McCaskill wanted to run against. Dems ran ads against Brunner to knock him down, but...

Sheldon Whitehouse, PACman

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2012 3 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse famously invoked Kristallnacht and lynchings when describing opponents of Obamacare, and regularly demonizes those who oppose him on policy grounds. Whitehouse is running a campaign attacking the influence of PAC "special interest" money. Whitehouse's opponent, Barry Hinckley, held a press conference and released a web video pointing...

Discontinued Olympic events seem awfully helpful

Posted by Anne Segal on August 07, 2012 39 Comments

The Economist published a list of discontinued Olympic sports since the games of 1896. While this year we can count on such sports as Synchronized Diving, Beach Volleyball, and Water Polo, other events have come and gone. What many of these discontinued events have in common,...