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Argument of Girls Sports "Trans" Cases at SCOTUS was "Otherworldly"

Hawley Stumps Doctor With Simple Question: 'Can Men Get Pregnant?'

Mamdani Housing Czar: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners are a Huge Problem’

Obama abandons Chicago teachers just like he did Wisconsin’s public unions

Posted by Anne Segal on September 14, 2012 15 Comments

Why is Obama abandoning the Chicago Teachers Union, just as he abandoned the Wisconsin unions during the Walker recall? As the Chicago Teachers Union strike drags on another day without an agreement, and a CTU lawyer says the next hope is that an agreement will be...

Branco Cartoon – Priorities USA

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 14, 2012 17 Comments

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Obama leads from behind as violence in Middle East escalates

Posted by Anne Segal on September 14, 2012 27 Comments

Violence continues to erupt across the Middle East and North Africa today following the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya on September 11 that killed the ambassador and three others Americans. An interactive map of the violence is available from National Journal detailing where and what is...

This week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 1 Comment

It was free speech week. How fitting, I hope we didn't insult anyone or hurt their feelings. Guest post by Senior V.P. at F.I.R.E., “If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!” Discriminatory Words? Swarthmore College’s War on Sororities Follow up the the breast-feeding in...

California: Once Golden, Now Just Toast

Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 28 Comments

California, you may have heard, is broke. Really broke. So broke that yesterday the Regents of the University of California began brainstorming what to do should additional revenues fail to materialize in the event Governor Jerry Brown’s pet initiative to raise taxes fails at the...

Indiana Lawmakers Cutting Funds From Some Public Colleges, Redirecting to Trade Schools

Report Claims ‘Feminist Collective’ Took Over Political Science Journal and Prioritized DEI

Colorado Sees Big Drop in Public School Enrollment as More Parents Choose Homeschooling

Northwestern U. LGBT Community Freaks Out Over Obscure Flag Painted on a Rock

Radical Leftist NYC Teachers’ Group Planning ‘Teach-In for Palestine’ on MLK Day

Amherst College Laying Off Administrators Behind Sexually Explicit Programming

Obama’s Great Islamist Delusion has come home to roost

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 70 Comments

Well, that didn't work out so well. We cast aside Hosni Mubarak on a moment's notice without taking steps to give non-Islamist parties a timetable to organize an effective transition; we overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, teaching tyrants the lesson that giving up nuclear ambitions is a deadly...

If there’s anything left

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2012 19 Comments

of America by the time we take over. Taken in Deerfield Beach, Florida, during the week of the Democratic Convention: When you're not in Charlotte, serve as a troop reinforcement by turning yourself into a walking bumper sticker decrying the "Republican War On America." Notice the shopper's use of...

Pro-Obama media — so far beyond bad it’s almost indescribable.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 82 Comments

An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had...

Chicago strike stalls over accountability and laid-off teachers

Posted by Anne Segal on September 13, 2012 14 Comments

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has announced their strike will continue into Friday--despite an offer from Jesse Jackson to mediate--after CTU President Karen Lewis said she's "optimistic, but we're still hammering things out." At the heart of the standstill is accountability: merit pay, the evaluation process,...

New Elizabeth Warren TV ad strategy — don’t let Elizabeth Warren talk

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 27 Comments

Warren finally takes the advice Scott Brown never actually gave her...

Operation Counterweight Upstate NY Week — Chris Collins (NY-27)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 1 Comment

Each day this week we will focus on one of the Upstate New York races included in Operation Counterweight. As mentioned before, Upstate NY is critical to holding the House, as several seats were gained by Republicans in an otherwise blue state in 2010. There...

Lack of Intelligence Community

Posted by Joel Engel on September 13, 2012 52 Comments

Four “senior Obama Administration officials” held a press briefing yesterday regarding the attacks in Libya and Egypt. For reasons we can only divine, they remain unnamed in the official transcript. Near the end, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston asked “whether there was any specific recent intelligence indicating that...

Branco Cartoon – Kids Held Hostage

Posted by A.F. Branco on September 13, 2012 15 Comments

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How a Charlie Crist whisper could be reported

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 29 Comments

And who knows, maybe it was: "A former very senior Republican insider, who requested anonymity so that he could speak freely, told us that he has serious doubts as to Mitt Romney's precipitous decision to criticize the President, and that Romney's actions were his 'Lehman moment'...

Middle East and Journalism in flames

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 54 Comments

Islamists create pretexts while JournoLists masquerade as referees...

If this offends people

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 9 Comments

I don't think this truck driver will give a ...

Welcome Joel Engel

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

I'm very pleased to welcome long-time reader and commenter (CassandraLite) Joel Engel as a contributor at Legal Insurrection. I've met Joel twice, and one thing led to another, and here we are. You may have noticed Joel's first post earlier today, 2016 May Bring Good Things. I...