Image 01 Image 03
Sign In or RegisterLogout

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

/var/www/vhosts/legalinsurrection.com/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/bridge-child/readFeeds.incFALSE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 20 Comments

This is the worst omen for Dick Lugar in a slew of bad omens this week. The SuperPAC which has dumped $600,000 of advertising into the Indianapolis market is pulling out of the race: The American Action Network is pulling out of the Indiana GOP Senate primary,...

LATEST NEWS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 85 Comments

You have got to be kidding me.  This trashing of Newt by Erika Johnsen, who apparently just started blogging at HotAir, is so over the top: Newt Gingrich’s decision to wait a week to officially drop out of the presidential race was kind of a non sequitur...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 40 Comments

Native American? I doubt this will move many votes in the Massachusetts Senate race, but it does illustrate how pursuit of “diversity” in higher education can drive institutions to make rather implausible claims: Elizabeth Warren’s avowed Native American heritage — which the candidate rarely if ever discusses...

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

A series of events in the past few days give every indication that Dick Lugar is losing the primary race, and his campaign devolves into almost bizarre and frantic accusations against Mourdock. Two recent polls show Mourdock with 1 point and 5 point leads, respectively. While Lugar's campaign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 36 Comments

Don Surber is giving up blogging: After 7 years of blogging, I am quitting. I am exhausted. It was simply too much work. I am still employed by the Charleston Daily Mail and still writing editorial and columns and performing the sundry other tasks that go...

LEGAL INSURRECTION QUICK TAKES

San Francisco Schools Anticipate Closure Due to Possible Teachers Strike

Under the Big Beautiful Bill, Colleges With Low-Earning Grads Could Lose Access to Student Loans

Professor Likely to Become Harvard's New History Chair Has History of Hating Trump, Israel

Staffers Cut Ties With Notre Dame Over Hiring of Abortion Advocate

Prof Warns Blowing Whistles to Alert Others to ICE Could ‘Retraumatize’ Hispanics

U. Minnesota Arrests 67 at Hotel Protest of ICE

SEE MORE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 26 Comments

Obama has been narrowing his targets for attack and derision ever since the 2008 campaign. Everywhere he looks, he finds some group to hold up for public scorn, and that group has narrowed from the top 5% to the top 2% to the top 1% to Wall...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 16 Comments

I have not followed the Florida Senate race, and the attempt to unseat Bill Nelson, very closely. But I did post a couple of general items about it last Fall: So tell me about Cor­nelius Har­vey McGillicuddy IV Florida Senate seat in play My focus has been elsewhere, but...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 27, 2012 18 Comments

A map of US wages that suggests most Americans live in some sort of indentured servitude has gone viral. Thankfully, the claim is easily debunked: If that sounds bogus, it’s because it is. Here’s why: Very few people who earn the minimum wage are living on that wage alone;...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 12 Comments

Kay Hymowitz:  Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit): One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every dollar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 7 Comments

Very, very interesting. I had heard from a reader a couple of weeks ago that she heard a Carbonite ad running on the Rush Limbaugh show on a radio station in Texas: I was in the car running errands so I just don't remember the exact time....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 25 Comments

Which do you think is better, the original Obama Celebrity ad run by the McCain campaign in 2008, or the new one from American Crossroads which was just released? First, the original: Here's how the NY Times Editorial Board characterized the McCain ad: The ad gave us an uneasy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 21 Comments

A reader sent me the following in response to my post about that thing that doesn't matter in the least to me: Over the past year, I've moved your bookmark steadily up & to the left. Since last fall it's been among the 18-20 that my screen width...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 26, 2012 41 Comments

Today some on the Right conceded that Obama's the one with the "cool" factor. Does that mean the Republicans need to cede all marketing savvy, though? Compare the RNC and DNC convention websites and ask yourself what caption you'd write under the images. The splash page...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2012 22 Comments

Today's is the 64th anniversary of Israel's founding. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Israel survived the War of Independence, and then some.  Now it is engaged in an existential struggle with the Islamists of every persuasion and location, and their anti-Israel allies in NGO's, "peace" groups, academia, the...

MORE POSTS
Accessibility by WAH