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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2009 0 Comments

The rise of the blogosphere owes to two developments: (1) the technology of the internet which allows individuals to be heard by a potentially unlimited audience without filtering by traditional news organizations, and (2) the agenda-driven mainstream media, which has driven tens of millions of...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2009 0 Comments

I recently identified Blogger Mood Disorder, "a condition in which one's mood swings up and down in sync with the level of blog traffic."The Other McCain (the one who has never lost an election) then identified two syndromes related to BMD, "SiteMeter Fever" and "Bloggernoia."...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 03, 2009 8 Comments

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has requested a three month extension of time to bring an indictment against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, stating that he needed more time to review thousands of telephone intercepts and to interview new witnesses. While I can't presume to know what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2009 0 Comments

A post at Critical Thoughts blog notes the relative silence of the Blagojevich blogoshpere about the request of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for a three month extension of the time to bring an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and suggests that Fitzgerald may have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2009 7 Comments

According to news reports, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to have armed guards bar Roland Burris from the Senate floor, despite the fact that Burris has been legally appointed to Barack Obama's open Senate seat by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. At the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2009 18 Comments

Although I only have been blogging for fewer than three months, I have identified a problem which must be quite common. I'll call it Blogger Mood Disorder. I have no psychiatric background, but I can identify the symptoms and have come up with the following...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2008 1 Comment

Legal Insurrection Blog started on October 12, 2008, with what is still my favorite post, Obama is Door No. 2.In those first days, readership consisted of me, a few relatives, a couple of neighbors, and some friends of relatives. Then a handful of other followers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2008 0 Comments

Barack Obama loves to invoke the "rule of law" when it suits his political purposes, but not in the case of Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris to Obama's empty Senate seat. In the Burris case, politics apparently trumps the law.There is no substantial legal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2008 0 Comments

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris has put the Democratic party in a box. By appointing an African-American to the empty Senate seat, Blagojevich has forced his political opponents to risk being called racists. In supporting the appointment, Congressman Bobby Rush called opposition...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2008 1 Comment

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has reversed course, and now wants to release to the Illinois House impeachment committee some wiretap evidence relating to the federal criminal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Previously, Fitzgerald went so far as to ask the House committee not even to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2008 2 Comments

The mainstream media loves Ted Kennedy despite the fact that Ted left a woman to die in a ditch and then lied about it.But Caroline Kennedy, for some reason, doesn't pass the test, even though she didn't lie, and people didn't die. Caroline's liberal creds...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2008 0 Comments

What a difference a decade makes. In the fall of 1998, President Bill Clinton faced impeachment for obstruction of justice and perjury in giving false and misleading testimony under oath regarding his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Congressional impeachment proceedings, while focused on the issue of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2008 1 Comment

On Christmas Day, British television Channel 4 provided Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to broadcast "an alternative Christmas message on British television to rival Queen Elizabeth II's annual address." In the message, Ahmadinejad said that "if Christ were on Earth today, undoubtedly he would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2008 7 Comments

Welcome to Legal Insurrection's Official Guide to Blagojevich Blogs. What makes this "official"? The same thing that makes people think the Franklin Mint is related to the U.S. Mint, even though the commercial says it's not. These blogs have frequent posts or links specifically about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2008 0 Comments

I recently placed "tags" on my prior posts, to make it easier for readers to find posts by topic. Among the tags were "NY Times" and "media bias." As I began tagging the stories, however, I realized that every story I tagged "NY Times" also...

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