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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’

@AngiesList stands up to #StopRush

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 12 Comments

I check in every now and then with the efforts of the Limbaugh boycott movement at the Twitter hashtag #stoprush. I noticed over the past few days a lot of chatter and anger directed at @AngiesList, as well as at new local advertisers on the Limbaugh show...

Wow, Mia B. Love leading in poll of Utah delegates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 16 Comments

This is just a poll of delegates who will vote on April 21 at the Utah Republican nominating convention, not an actual vote, but if true, it would be an earthquake in UT-04:In Utah's newly formed 4th district, things are considerably tight, according to the...

Dog fight

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 54 Comments

Oh, sure it's not as important as the future of mankind, or the debt cliff Obama is driving us off. But since Democrats are in full Seimus on the Roof mode, why not point out: or or More at HotAir, Daily Caller, Twitchy. Update: It has come to this: ...

Barack Obama, brought to you by Dick Lugar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 13 Comments

When Indiana primary voters go to the polls on May 8, they should remember that in 2008 Dick Lugar verbally embraced Barack Obama and gave Obama bipartisan cover at a critical time in the campaign, so much so that Lugar became a prominent fixture in Obama...

The Four Horsemen of the Democrats’ 2012 Apocalypse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 24 Comments

From reader Dave: Here's a sticker for you from Wisconsin. While Madison is a lost cause, the rest of the state has been making a right turn for the past few years. ...

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

They distort

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 23 Comments

with such ease and confidence: Reality: Notice that support for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first legislation President Obama signed in 2009, is now equated with support for women’s equal pay. Thus do liberals constantly ratchet the country in a leftward direction, declaring every piece...

Today was a great day … for voter fraud and criminals … ALEC surrenders

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 52 Comments

There has been a pressure campaign against corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) led by Color of Change and some of the same groups targeting conservative talk radio: Here’s how it works. An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed as...

Some googly eyes are created more equal

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 14 Comments

Call it the War on Women's Eyes. I think Andrew Kaczynski has it right: No, actually, I know he is right: ...

Protests against Israel being featured at LGBT Equality Forum

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 27 Comments

The "anti-pinkwashing" campaign continues in all its irony. Israel is to be "featured" at the annual Equality Forum on May 3-6 in Philadelphia, based on Israel's record on gay issues. Israel, of course, is the only nation in the Middle East where homosexuality is not punished, much less punished with...

The Tea Party: The greatest feminist movement?

Posted by Anne Segal on April 17, 2012 17 Comments

Two standout appearances at Chicago's Tea Party this Monday were familiar faces from Saturday's Wisconsin event: BigJournalism's Dana Loesch and Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. These two women, working moms who are relatively recent entrants into the political fray, are examples of one of the most...

Signs of desperation in Lugar campaign (Update – Desperate campaign, desperate ads)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 17 Comments

You can sense the momentum shifting under Richard Lugar's feet in the challenge by Richard Mourdock. How desperate has the Lugar campaign become? So desperate that one of Lugar's top campaign aides has concocted the claim that Mourdock's necktie resembles a Confederate flag and made...

Vice versa

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 31 Comments

From Linda in Tennessee, a variation on the Coexist bumper sticker: I was riding shotgun today...

Hope in Wisconsin

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 12 Comments

A PPP poll for Daily Kos shows Gov. Scott Walker in a good position: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads all of his Democratic challengers in the Wisconsin recall election, per a new Public Policy Polling poll out this afternoon. Walker, the incumbent governor, has a 5-point lead...

When Barney Frank is the voice of reason in the Democratic Party

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 26 Comments

you know the Democratic Party has a problem. From his going away interview (almost) in New York Magazine (italics added)(h/t @ByronYork): You think Obama overinterpreted his mandate with health care? The problem with health care is this: Health care is enormously important to people. When you tell them that...

The nomination hasn’t been etched, but already he’s sketching

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 94 Comments

Defeating Barack Obama is a priority. So is keeping the presumptive nominee from etch-a-sketching and erasing the conservative movement. Via Byron York: At a closed-to-the-press Florida fundraiser Sunday night at which his remarks were overheard by some reporters standing outside, Mitt Romney was asked about his media strategy...

The 5000

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 22 Comments

This afternoon I received my 5000th follower on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, you can follow me at @LegInsurrection. If you are not on Twitter, get on it. Facebook switched everyone to the new Timeline view. You can "like" LI's Facebook page, which has just over...

Madison Tea Party battleground more divided, entrenched than ever

Posted by Anne Segal on April 16, 2012 37 Comments

This past Saturday marked a change for the now-annual Wisconsin Tax Day Tea Party in Madison, Wisc. While thousands turned out -- an organizer said it was 6,300 -- it wasn't the masses that had showed up in the pouring rain last year to see...