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 March 20, 2012 80 Comments

The reason I have pushed back against the Rush boycotters has nothing to do with Rush.  Social media anonymity has allowed all sorts of implied and explicit threats against advertisers and others as a means of shutting down speech, particularly conservative speech. Twitter is just one part...

LATEST NEWS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 17 Comments

I'll have more on this as the date approaches, but anti-Israel groups in Arab countries and the West are planning a "Global March on Jerusalem" on March 30, which will include a planned rush at Israel's borders. The Free Beacon has background, March Madness: The Iranian regime...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 38 Comments

Obama's budget proposal shows mounting national debt and deficits.  Paul Ryan unveiled the House budget proposal today, which shows a very different trajectory. Via James Pethokoukis comes this chart demonstrating the difference: After the Obama White House released its 2013 budget plan last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 23 Comments

Early on, Team Obama was bragging about raising $1 billion. When over the summer and fall fundraising did not seem to be all it should be, the confidence remained. Now, not so much.  Via The Hill: For some Obama supporters, the presidential campaign’s fundraising totals, released Monday, might have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 12 Comments

I've had readers follow people to get the a bumper sticker photo before, but this is a first. From reader and commenter vonbeck2: I followed this SUV into a Chick-Fil-A in Slidell, LA to get this picture. When i saw it I thought the pres just started laughing...

LEGAL INSURRECTION QUICK TAKES

Franklin & Marshall College Economic Department Features Marxist Curriculum

Students for Justice in Palestine at U. Chicago Cheer for Iranian Missiles Hitting U.S. Navy Base

Dearborn Henry Ford Community College Prof Says Trump Made a Huge 'Mistake' in Iran

Yale to Offer Free Tuition to Families Making Less Than $200K

U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Students Want School to Spend $25K on Reparations Commission

Anti-Israel Group at Columbia Reacts to Iran Strike by Tweeting 'Death to America' in Persian

SEE MORE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 22 Comments

Via Jazz Shaw, NY redistricting is finalized and Ithaca -- part of retiring Maurice Hinchey's district which disappeared -- now is part of the district of Republican Congressman Tom Reed (campaign website).  I don't know a lot about Tom, but I'll be finding out for sure,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 36 Comments

I have posted before about the daily anti-Walker ritual chanting in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. The other day a group of visiting student basketball teams stood on the balcony as the anti-Walker Solidarity Singers went through their usual ritual, but then turned the tables by breaking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 38 Comments

There's a lot of chatter and outrage over this tweet by David Axelrod using the term "Mittzkrieg," a play on "Blitzkrieg": The Republican Jewish Coalition reacted: “At a time when there is so much talk about the need for civility in political discourse, it is disturbing to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 37 Comments

Via The Times of Israel: Four people were shot and killed at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse Monday morning. A rabbi and his two young children were among the dead, as well as an 8-year-old girl. Several more people were injured. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 3 Comments

I was glad to appear again last night as a guest of Kevin Whalen on Pundit Review Radio on WRKO Boston: On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 26 Comments

As posted yesterday, the people still pushing the Limbaugh advertising boycott rely on bombarding advertisers with Twitter messages, and have developed strategies to maximize the apparent number of tweets sent to advertisers, through retweets and multiple tweets by single users. It is not hard to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 19, 2012 7 Comments

From reader Tom: I've enjoyed your blog for some time now Mr. Jacobson. Born and raised in western and central NY, I'm well aware that you're something of a "unicorn" in Ithaca! Anyway, I spotted this sticker on a car outside a diner in Latham (Albany)....

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

I ran a long string of Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson Videos of the Day recently. Thanks to reader Scott who just forwarded to me this video of Tony Snow in a duet with Anderson. Anderson's comments on Tony's death in 2008 are here....

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

Rutherford B. Hayes never had it so good. His name and image are on the internet. (image here, more of mine here, even more here)...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on March 18, 2012 33 Comments

Our Bill of Rights is the foundation of our protections from government intrusion, a bastion of liberty unknown in most of the world. The essence of the Bill of Rights, what defines us as a nation and a citizenry, is captured by the First Amendment...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 45 Comments

The advertiser boycott of Rush Limbaugh appears to be cracking, and Rush's move to Twitter has boycott organizers worried. Behind the scenes, anecdotal evidence suggests that advertising either never really was impacted at the local level, or to the extent it was it has returned to normal.  Via...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2012 83 Comments

I've received a number of e-mails and comments about an Executive Order signed by Obama on Friday, titled National Defenses Resources Preparedness, and what it means. It appears that this Executive Order is an update of prior Executive Orders signed in 1988 and 1994 which elaborate similar...

MORE POSTS
Accessibility by WAH