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Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments
Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book “Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice .”  The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2013 2 Comments
Yes, Yes, Yes! Are You Ready for Terrifying Law School Tuition? Are Single Sex Schools the Wave of the Future? Dartmouth Student – Can the government shutdown teach us to live with less? Is Oberlin the college with the worst return on investment? War on...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 19, 2013 7 Comments
With both houses of Congress passing the budget deal, and the Tea Party being smeared by both parties, I wanted to give my Legal Insurrection friends some reasons to have hope and a reason to focus locally. Many of these reasons can be found in Ballotpedia,...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 17 Comments
The mother of a 14 year old girl charged with stalking in connection to the bullying case of Rebecca Sedwick, who later committed suicide, was arrested Friday on unrelated charges of child abuse and child neglect. From WTSP-10News: The mother of one of the girls...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 14 Comments
No, not the gubmint. Legal Insurrection, for scheduled “maintenance.” Starting about 4 a.m. Eastern on Monday. If all goes according to plan, the outage will be short and in any event, over no later than 8 a.m. If all doesn’t go according to plan, can...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 18, 2013 27 Comments
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on October 24th to address the issues surrounding the health care law’s rollout.  The committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that she appear before the committee to respond...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 62 Comments
You may have heard. There’s a petition at MoveOn.org, promoted by Daily Kos, to have conservative members of the House arrested for sedition. And the petition has tens of thousands of signatures, with real people feeling bold enough to put their real names on it. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2013 34 Comments
We previously wrote about Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury College student who, with non-student activists, removed a flag memorial on 9/11 this year remembering the victims of the World Trade Center attack, claiming solidarity with the Native American Abenaki tribe: My intention was not to cause...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 17, 2013 51 Comments
Two weeks into the launch of the Obamacare website, issues continue to be unearthed and the administration remains short on answers. A few interesting paragraphs from this piece in Politico last night: At a summit of health care advocacy groups at the Newseum on Tuesday,...
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