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Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Saturday Night Card Game (“Your race card narrative does not fit, so you must acquit”)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 26 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Donald Trump has pushed the issue of Barack Obama's birthplace and citizenship back onto the front pages. I'm not going to revisit the merits of the issue, but I...

A historical double-standard

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 02, 2011 18 Comments

KathleenCity Journal's Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov's 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War.journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors have declared...

Separated At Birth?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 7 Comments

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Citizens United Weighs Heavily On Their Bumpers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 16 Comments

The Citizens United case weighs very, very heavily on their minds and their bumpers.Spotted in Ithaca today:--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Richard Goldstone Confirms He Was A Useful Idiot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 14 Comments

The Report issued by Richard Goldstone on the Gaza war is the single most influential document in the arsenal of those around the world -- including on campuses in the United States -- who seek to demonize and delegitimize Israel. That Goldstone is Jewish gave supposed...

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing 'Genocide'

Federal Govt Trying to Hire up to 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump's Inauguration

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has Fun on Broadway While Conservative Justices Can't Leave Their Homes

Northwestern Prof Calls Out AAUP Over DEI Hypocrisy

Kansas University Pushes Trans Activism in Defiance of Kansas Voters

Columbia Prof Resigns Over School's Decision to Have Academic Who Praised October 7th Attacks Teach Zionism Course

In Wisconsin, All Senate Votes Must Take Place In Front Of Screaming Mobs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2011 35 Comments

That apparently is where the case is heading.According to reports, the testimony before Judge Sumi this morning regarded, in part, the fact that the March 9 Senate Committee meeting to re-work the budget bill (because 14 Democrats had fled), took place in a small room...

The Review has a banner week

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 01, 2011 0 Comments

KathleenThe Cornell Review began the week after Spring Break with esteemed Cornell alum, Keith Olbermann, stomping on a copy of February's publication and calling most conservatives stupid.So while the week started rough, today the Review team distributed a parody of our resident lefty-newspaper, The Cornell...

We Win On The Facts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2011 19 Comments

Mockery may be part of the plan, but it's not going to be enough in 2012. Not with the mainstream media and entertainment industry on his side. Just tell it like it is, straightforward and hard hitting. He's driving us over a cliff. We win...

Dear George Soros – Demand A Refund

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2011 10 Comments

Dear George, I heard you just donated $1 million or so to Media Matters. Demand a refund. Their highest-paid Senior Fellow is spending his time checking my blog for spelling errors. My readers already do that for me for free. You've been had. Yours truly, Legl Insirrection Blag Update: Senior...

The Legal Mess In Wisconsin Continues

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2011 10 Comments

There is a hearing today before Judge Maryann Sumi in Wisconsin. The hearing was supposed to be a continuation of the testimony as to whether the budget bill had been published.As detailed by JSOnline, at the end of the hearing Tuesday, Judge Sumi on the...

Remind me again, what is the Obama Doctrine?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2011 6 Comments

I kinda saw this coming.On March 23 I pointed out the potential problem that since we were acting in Libya under a U.N. Resolution requiring the protection of civilians, we would face the dilemma that if the rebels started attacking pro-Gaddafi civilians, we might have...

Duke Lacrosse Civil Suits Allowed To Move Forward

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 7 Comments

A federal judge in the Middle District of North Carolina has allowed civil lawsuits by Duke lacrosse players wrongly accused of rape to move forward. In the first case, Evans et al. v. City of Durham et al., for which the 98-page opinion is embedded below, the court...

The Missing Headline: “Obama Support Among Millennials Plummets Since 2008”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 7 Comments

That's the headline you will not see. Instead, you will see this headline: "Obama Approval Ratings On The Rise Among Millennials, Especially on College Campuses, Harvard Poll Finds."And this headline:Obama Job Approval Rises Among Young Voters: Millennials More Likely To Vote Obama Than GOP Candidate...

The Politics of Beauty

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 31, 2011 7 Comments

KathleenOver at Mises.org, Ben O'Neill has a great post about "discrimination" in the modeling industry. Recently, a model of Indian-descent in Australia tried to make the case that she was being unfairly discriminated on the basis of her race. "One might feel a bit sorry...

AARP – But You Knew That

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 8 Comments

Washington, D.C. is shocked to find that AARP may have had a financial incentive to push Obamacare:"The report also details the Democrats’ health care law’s significant cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) and how the interplay in the marketplace between MA and Medigap will increase Medigap...

This Would Not Work

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 8 Comments

If Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) recovers dramatically from her gunshot wounds, she would be a formidable candidate to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Jon Kyl. Giffords would have been a contender for the Democratic nomination even without the shooting, but the groundswell of...

Judge Sumi Rules Budget Repair Bill Not In Effect

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2011 24 Comments

Judge Maryann Sumi has issued this morning a two-page ruling saying the budget repair bill is not in effect. Via JSOnline:A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, continuing the turmoil over...