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KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

There is a "Popularized Conception of Birthright Citizenship, Which May Not be Accurate"

Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused

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...

Florida International U. Profs Claim School Agreeing to Work With ICE Makes Students Feel Unsafe

Communist Group on Campus at UC-Berkeley Displays Poster Depicting Trump as Hitler

Steven Crowder Event Canceled at UPenn Due to Security Issues

Florida Removes Sociology Requirement From General Education Due to Concerns About Bias

Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Overwhelmingly Democrats

Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants

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...

When the Ivy League is all you know, Columbia is a country

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 23 Comments

The best and the brightest, writing about the Secret Service scandal in the country of Colombia consistently spell it "Columbia" like the University (h/t @BuzzFeedBen via @AlexPappasDC): ...

My favorite Obama prediction, headline and photo

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 23 Comments

“Barack Obama Deficit-Slayer”, by Matthew Yglesias, June 22, 2009: As the economy recovers, tax revenues will rise, social safety net outlays will fall, and stimulus measures will begin to tamp down. If we can assume further growth in 2011, the complete expiry of Recovery Act provisions, and...

Bloody mess

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2012 17 Comments

Considering the bumper sticker below, spotted in Ithaca, a little history lesson is in order: The Saint Patrick's Day Four (also, The Saint Patrick's Four, or SP4) are four American peace activists of Irish Catholic heritage who poured their own blood on the walls, posters, windows,...

Wild Turkeys

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 28 Comments

This video (via Above The Law, h/t tip from Badger Pundit) was taken on the edge of the Harvard Law School campus. The building in the opening shot is a new building where Wyeth Hall, the dorm I lived in first year, used to stand. They...

The Catholic vote

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 78 Comments

but will they vote in larger numbers and against Obama this year? I'm not really in a position to assess that, so enlighten me. ...

The joys of being a small business owner in Obama’s America

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 38 Comments

A reader writes: Not sure if you have something planned for tax day, but thought you'd like a little perspective from the private sector. If you do use it, please hold back our names - a few of my clients are liberals! The joys of being a small business...

The Obama Great Failed Recovery

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 22 Comments

What is known in the media and Obama campaign speak as The Worst Recession Since The Great Depression, or The Great Recession, is Obama's excuse for everything. It's Bush's fault, Obama inherited all our problems, etc. The Bush Great Recession is Obama's pass to pass the buck. So keep in...

#Flytilla #fools #foiled

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 19 Comments

Via Jerusalem Post: Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch told reporters at the airport Sunday, "As you can see, things are working normally at Ben-Gurion." The minister said the attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to enter Israel as part of the "flytilla" protest were still at their peak and...

Liberal female pundits belittling Ann Romney have disqualified themselves, too

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 50 Comments

Put aside, for the moment, the snotty and snide aspect of Hilary Rosen's comment that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life." Put aside, for the moment, the psychological need of liberal female pundits to belittle a woman who chose a different path in life, while the person...

I wonder if he followed the Supreme Court oral arguments

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 31 Comments

From reader Benny who took these photos of stickers in the rear window of a van in Columbia, SC. Took these pics in a K-Mart parking lot a few hours ago...