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New and Improved Law Professor Blog Rankings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2013 12 Comments

It’s the dawn of a new era in TaxProf’s quarterly law professor blog rankings, as he explains, Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings: Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings by page views of the Top 50 blogs edited by law professors for the most recent...

Early childhood “Tools of the Mind” education more like “Mind Control”

Posted by Anne Segal on October 22, 2013 14 Comments

Navigate to the Hoboken, NJ, public schools website –a town just across the Hudson from New York City — and you’ll find a front-page announcement that since 2008, Hoboken has based its pre-school and kindergarten curriculum on “Tools of the Mind,” also known as “Cultural-Historical...

What happens to a society in which young people are not interested in sex?

Posted by New Neo on October 22, 2013 18 Comments

Japan may be about to find out. As you might imagine, the “don’t want to have sex” crowd in Japan doesn’t include all the young people, not by a long shot. But it’s a worrisome percentage, especially considering that this is an age group where...

Interpol Chief after Kenya Mall attack: Maybe armed citizenry isn’t so crazy after all

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 21, 2013 26 Comments

In the wake of the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, many have turned to the issue of security and a debate over how to protect against similar terrorist attacks on soft targets. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble had some interesting comments for ABC News today...

Just a reminder, Consumer Reports helped shove Obamacare down your throats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2013 37 Comments

Rename the website Healthcare.debacle, brought to you by ConsumerReports.Obamacare

More Truth About Palestinian Rock Throwing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2013 11 Comments

One week ago we posted about how a new website exposed The Truth About Palestinian Rock Throwing. We featured a video exposing the The Wadi’a Maswadah Hoax, about a 5-year old Palestinian rock thrower allegedly “arrested” by the IDF. In fact, the child was brought...

Healthcare.gov PR solution: Blame technological arsonists, computer code terrorists and suicide programmers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2013 40 Comments

who collectively have done more damage to Obamacare the brand than Republicans in Congress could have dreamed. The problems, according to the NY Times, are deep, deeeep, deeeeeeep, Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site: Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems...

Branco Cartoon – Not So Free At Last

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 21, 2013 5 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco

Welcome to Legal Insurrection Version 2.1

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2013 49 Comments

Legal Insurrection Version 1.0 was the old Blogger template. Version 2.0 was the custom designed WordPress template initiated in June 2011. This Version 2.1 is a redesign of the home page to accomplish the following: 1. Featured Posts. Adding the ability to keep featured posts...

Sunday Night Open (Update – The Washington Warrens)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 20, 2013 13 Comments

Been away all week at a conference in Orlando. Thanks to Mandy and other contributors for covering. Remember, there may be a partial shutdown of LI on Monday morning, for “maintenance.” What did I miss? Update: The Washington Warrens!

Running to Govern is Much Different Than Running Government

Posted by David Gerstman on October 20, 2013 14 Comments

President Obama employed cutting edge information to get re-elected. He didn't show as much interest in his implementation of Obamacare.

Supporters show up to rally behind bullied student after aunt’s Facebook post

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 10 Comments

It started with a single Facebook post. When the aunt of a high school student realized he was being bullied at school, she took to Facebook to invite what turned out to be about 100 of his “new friends” to meet her nephew at school and...

Sen. Durbin: “Ultimately, Secretary Sebelius will testify” on ObamaCare website issues

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 22 Comments

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin told FOX News Sunday that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will “ultimately” testify before Congress to address Obamacare website rollout issues. From FOX News: A top Democratic senator said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius...

Qatar websites restored after Syrian Electronic Army attack

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 1 Comment

Several websites with the Qatar (.qa) domain extension have been restored to normal after being disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army this weekend. The hackers targeted the Qatar Domains Registry and altered DNS records for several high profile domains, according to Softpedia, then defacing pages...