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What did the @NRSC know, and when did it know it?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2014 10 Comments

We need answers before the June 3 primary, as to who did what and who knew what and when.

Report: Thomas Piketty’s numbers are off

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2014 14 Comments

Hold off on the Nobel Prize until a fact check.

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The most important space in journalism

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2014 9 Comments

In. Their. Faces.

Forecast: Cloudy, with a certainty of Zero Tolerance Insanity

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2014 21 Comments

2nd grade boy investigated for drawing gun for class project as to what students saw in the clouds

You know who else wants reparations? The Chinese

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 23, 2014 8 Comments

Professor Jacobson just reported that a ponderous tome explaining why black Americans are entitled to reparations has just been published. In other news, hundreds of Chinese families are suing Japan for compensation related to World War II enforced labor. As relations between China and Japan...

That was then, this is now

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2014 12 Comments

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If you know a DePaul student, read this

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2014 7 Comments

Anti-Israel all-campus student divestment vote ends Friday, May 23, help turn out the vote. (Update 5/23 4 p.m. Eastern: Divestment Resolution passes 1575-1333)

The dead-end Case for Reparations

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2014 106 Comments

Ta-Nehisi Coates' backwards looking road to nowhere.

More arrests in photographing of Thad Cochran’s wife in nursing home (Update: DA says McDaniel campaign not involved)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2014 10 Comments

Political presumption of guilt works in Thad Cochran's favor with fast approaching June 3 primary.

Dear Jay Rockefeller, please speed up your retirement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2014 12 Comments

And take your race card with you.

Tuesday’s elections weren’t even a flesh wound for real Tea Party types

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 22, 2014 23 Comments

Who says the Tea Party's dead?

Branco Cartoon – Broken Record

Posted by A.F. Branco on May 22, 2014 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

Obama Response to VA Scandal Slammed on… CNN?

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 22, 2014 10 Comments

"I was a little caught off-guard by what apparently is a disconnect."

UCLA Judicial Board rejects attempt to disqualify pro-Israel students

Posted by CampusClimatologist on May 22, 2014 3 Comments

Anti-Israel Lawfare Fails; Pro-Israel Groups Take Offensive

U.S. deploys 80 troops to aid in search for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 21, 2014 18 Comments

Will support "operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area."

Op-Ed: “Open Carry” Activists Score Yet Another Own Goal

Posted by Andrew Branca on May 21, 2014 171 Comments

The armed demonstrations of "Open Carry" activists sets back gun rights movement.

A commencement speaker with a difference: Robert Frost, 1956

Posted by New Neo on May 21, 2014 4 Comments

The recent news about commencement speakers being scared away or disinvited or staying the course despite adversity or giving students a tongue-lashing might make you want to return to a commencement address from an earlier time. That time was 1956, nearly a full sixty years...

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