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 February 24, 2012 88 Comments

Obama on our energy future: "We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae -- you've got a bunch of algae out here," Obama said at the University of Miami today. "If we can...

LATEST NEWS

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 53 Comments

Newt has released a 28 minute video discussing energy independence. (h/t numerous readers) Via Human Events, the video will be broadcast in key markets, in its entirety. Also, it was done entirely from memory, without aid of notes or a teleprompter. Big question: Will people watch a...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 24, 2012 10 Comments

I don't worry that some of my information can be easily accessed on the web. I think I'm typical of most people in my generation who have grown accustomed to taking privacy into their own hands. My rule of thumb is this: if it's a free...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 36 Comments

An article at Boston Catholic Insider asserts that Mitt Romney lied during the Arizona debate about forcing Catholic Hospitals to provide the "morning after" pill to rape victims. Here's the debate passage (via Right Scoop): KING (Moderator): Governor Romney, both Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich have said...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 5 Comments

From Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg (h/t @ChuckTodd): The President and the Democrats are indeed doing very well at the outset of 2012, and the Republicans are doing pitifully. They are not unrelated. Republicans in Congress and in the primary battles are driving independents into the Democrats’...

LEGAL INSURRECTION QUICK TAKES

Mistrial Declared in Case of Stanford Students Charged After Anti-Israel Protests in 2024

Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus

CUNY Law Hosting Lecture Framing Hamas Tunnels as Anti-Colonial Resistance

Report Alleges Georgetown U. Received $971 Million From Qatar

Saint Mary’s College in Indiana Finally Approves TPUSA After Four Years

In the End, it is Trump Who Has Done More Than Anyone to Bring Down Epstein

SEE MORE

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 3 Comments

From reader and frequent photographer Matt in Denver: Please don't worry. I made up for their saved gas going a little out of the way on our way home from to get this picture within the LI safety standards. Unfortunately, I could not make out the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 24 Comments

I bet the reaction would be quite different if NY Times columnist Charles M. Blow mocked religious Jewish undergarments the way he mocked religious Mormon undergarments in this tweet (h/t Jim Geraghty): But then again, he's a NY Times columnist with a long history of foul hyperbole directed at the Tea...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 32 Comments

Rick Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter because he was a good establishment Republican in 2004, and that's what the Republican President wanted.  The precursor to the Tea Party movement backed Pat Toomey. Santorum's endorsement was no crime.  It was a pure political calculation, one which many others in Santorum's place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 12 Comments

Republicans can learn something from Rhode Island about standing up for taxpayers as a winning political strategy. I have written many time before about the efforts of Democratic Mayor of Providence Angel Taveras, who has taken on school teacher unions and other public sector employees in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 46 Comments

Newt made headlines for this comment at the debate last night: I had forgotten about that controversy, involving Obama's obfuscation of his failure to support the Born Alive Infant Protection Act as an Illinois state senator. Jill Stanek was responsible for bringing attention to the practice of killing babies who survived...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 47 Comments

I posted last night and again this morning that Rick Santorum had a terrible debate. But it's fair also to point out that many of the shots Romney scored on Santorum were cheap shots, as pointed out by George  Neumayr at The American Spectator (h/t reader OccamsrazorX): Romney,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 26 Comments

I am really liking The Times of Israel, the new online publication I posted about a week ago. This story is one of the reasons, Onward Christian Soldiers: Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 36 Comments

It's hard to know just how much of an effect Rick Santorum's horrible debate last night will have on the vote in Michigan and Arizona. It's hard to believe it helped, and it has to have hurt badly.  I think Philip Klein from The Washington Examiner...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2012 7 Comments

From reader David: I captured this one in Daytona Beach, FL. I was stopped and waiting behind a school bus. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2012 39 Comments

This was, in many ways, the best answer of the night, with Newt turning the tables on his critics with a single word: Mitt Romney Central was not amused:   The "press" has a sense of humor: Sarah Palin seemed to like it: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2012 65 Comments

Endgame analysis:  No question Newt won, but no single huge moment that is likely to shift the polls dramatically (or fundamentally).  Just a consistent strong performance, that's the pretty uniform assessment from relatively neutral people I'm following on Twitter.  Really bad night for Santorum, off...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2012 20 Comments

The last best hope of mankind tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern. In the meantime: They tried to redistrict away Michele Bachmann, but she's fighting on.  And yes, despite everything, I support having her in Congress.  Her congressional campaign website is here. "we liked Matt Drudge a lot more...

MORE POSTS
Accessibility by WAH