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Did Hostility To Policing Contribute To Brown U. Failures?

Ben Shapiro at TPUSA: Conservative movement in danger "from charlatans who ... traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty"

RI Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger Barred from Serving on Public Health Board, Sues for Discrimination

Depends on what the meaning of “thou” is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2012 10 Comments

that shalt not. From reader Pam: I've been meaning to forward this to you for a while. I see this car in the parking garage where I work (please don't share where, LOL) every day. I am heartened every time I see evidence of conservative thinkers in...

SPLC’s hatewatch gives cover to hate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2012 64 Comments

As long-time readers surely know, I have examined the pernicious methodology of the Southern Poverty Law Center in moving from fighting Klan and neo-Nazi groups to fighting for the Democratic Party agenda against conservatives and the Tea Party. In seeking to justify its hefty salaries, budget...

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": ...

SUNY Running Institute to Train Faculty as ‘DEI Practitioners’

American College Theatre Festival Cuts Ties With Kennedy Center

Socialist Students at U. Missouri Protest Law Enforcement Operation That Caught Multiple Violent Offenders

Prof Claims Georgia College and State U. Fired Him for Voicing Concerns About Student Plagiarism

Law Professor Josh Blackman Resigns From Heritage Foundation Over Antisemitism Controversy

Professor Jonathan Turley Reacts to News About Lack of Republican Profs at Yale

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...

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...