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Posted by David Gerstman on March 05, 2013 1 Comment
1) More on AIPAC In addition to explaining how the two organizers put together the AIPAC conference, Tablet has a symposium, Do we still need a pro-Israel lobby? Though there are some good responses, the presence of Rebecca Vilkomerson and Alan Elsner as respondents is disappointing. Vilkomerson...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments
David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I’m posting today’s sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2013 21 Comments
The Gang of Eight yesterday: Individuals who are present without lawful status – not including people within the two categories identified below – will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2012 49 Comments
When companies self-censor to wait until the days after the election to announce major layoffs. Via commenter conservativegram in the Tip Line: As Drudge would say-”Own it!” “Nextel to cut 20% of jobs at Virginia headquarters” In Past 48 hrs, following companies announded layoffs: Caterpillar, CVPH...

Posted by Joel Engel on September 12, 2012 33 Comments
This is the first post from new Legal Insurrection contributor Joel Engel ——————————– Early today, Professor Jacobson posted again about the movie 2016: Obama’s America, vis-à-vis producer Dinesh D’Souza’s response to reader criticisms, and concluded: There’s something to that film which has touched a nerve,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 06, 2011 7 Comments
of Ithaca. My first worthy bumper-sticker sighting where I had my cell phone handy! My biggest pet peeve are people who think voluntary actions are involuntary (& vice versa). For example: This doofus probably thinks that labor in the Third World is involuntary and that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2011 7 Comments
From Walter Russell Mead referencing cancellation of his own speech, and taking it all in good humor: I was scheduled to give a talk at the Hannah Arendt conference here at Bard this evening on the problems of the green movement in dealing with the...

Posted by Matthew Knee on June 10, 2011 8 Comments
(by Matthew Knee) Yale recently announced the closing of the The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), America’s first academic institute to study anti-Semitism, citing a lack of scholarly output and student interest. The overall Jewish community, and some newspaper columnists, are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments
Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain: How America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin The substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner: Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 26, 2010 7 Comments
Today we’re running a guest column from Michael Alan, a freshman in Cornell’s school of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Michael is a contributor to the Cornell Review, and hails from Lewisburg, PA. The Albany Times-Union reported last week that the records from NY Governor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 14 Comments
I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome. Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 4 Comments
Tom Daschle reveals that a secret deal was cut with hospital executives in the summer of 2009 for the hospitals to accepts approximately $155 billion in cuts in exchange for Dems dropping plans for a public option, which would have foisted massive cuts in reimbursements...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 41 Comments
Writing-on-hand-gate reminds me of one of the reasons Sarah Palin was put on this earth: To bring out and expose the worst misogynistic impulses in the hard core of the Democratic base. I’m not talking about criticism or mockery of the handwritten notes. That’s fair...
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