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Seattle Law School Fails To Condemn Fabricated Accusations Against Prof. Bernie Burk

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2023 67 Comments

Recordings and transcripts prove the professor never "designated Brown students as terrorists” or "called Native Americans savages on the first day of class," as an anonymous student claimed in the student newspaper. Prof. Burk: "As far as I know, the law school and university administration have made no clear public statement condemning the anonymous accusations now proven false...."

https://twitter.com/alexchristy17/status/1619349982640750593

Van Jones: Five Black Officers Who Beat Black Memphian Tyre Nichols Might’ve Been Motivated by Racism

Posted by Stacey Matthews on January 29, 2023 87 Comments

"...unfortunately, African-Americans can also be guilty of hatred and bias and bigotry against other African-Americans. Sometimes you go into a store owned by an African-American, they’re nice to the white folks and suspicious of you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwLWfaAg-8

#TwitterFiles: Twitter Execs Knew The Russian Misinformation Hysteria Was Based On A Dubious Source

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 28, 2023 20 Comments

"Twitter didn’t have the guts to out Hamilton 68 publicly but did try to speak to reporters off the record… Again, even Roth, like most Twitter execs an ardent Democratic partisan, saw that the Hamilton scheme would lead people ‘to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots'."

Math “White Cisheteropatriarchy” Word Salad By Vanderbilt Prof Is What Gets Rewarded In Academia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2023 44 Comments

My appearance on the Newell Normand radio show to talk about the state of academia and a Vanderbilt U Professor's lecture: "we are creating systems which seek to punish high achievement and seek to denigrate high achievement in racial and other terms that is extremely damaging to our country."

Tables Turned: Prof. Amy Wax, Charged With Wrongthink, Files Counter-Grievance Against U Penn Law Dean

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 26, 2023 31 Comments

Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”

Kevin McCarthy Pushes Back on Reporter Questioning Decision to Remove Schiff and Swalwell From Intel Committee

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 25, 2023 36 Comments

"What did Adam Schiff do as the Chairman of the Intel Committee? What Adam Schiff did, use his power as the Chairman and lie to the American public."

Manslaughter Charge Against Alec Baldwin in Shooting Death of Halyna Hutchins Fits The Known Facts

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 22, 2023 69 Comments

Nothing during the 13 months since that event has changed my fundamental conclusion that a proper application of New Mexico law to the apparent facts in this case leads to anything but an act of reckless (involuntary) manslaughter on the part of Baldwin—ultimately the charge announced.

Punishing Achievement Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 21, 2023 8 Comments

Your weekly report on education news.

Democrats Use Schiff as Shiv to Stick Biden Over Classified Docs Debacle

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 16, 2023 35 Comments

"I still would like to see Congress do its own assessment of -- and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was an exposure to others of these documents, whether there was harm to national security, on the case of either set of documents with either president."

Progressives Pressuring Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to Retire While Dems Control Senate, WH

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2023 46 Comments

"We have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s late-life arrogance for more than two years."

‘This Doesn’t Make Any Sense’: WH Press Corps Torches Jean-Pierre Over Biden Classified Document Case

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 12, 2023 72 Comments

"You have said repeatedly, the president has said, he takes classified documents very seriously. If that's the case, why were these classified documents being stored in his garage?"

Houston Taqueria Shooting: Legally Justified Killing or Simply an Execution?

Posted by Andrew Branca on January 10, 2023 316 Comments

Importantly, at the moment this ninth shot was fired, not only was the robber now disarmed of the only weapon he was known to possess—the “pistol” recovered by the shooter—but he appears completely inert and unmoving on the ground.

The Long Battle for Speaker of the House Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 08, 2023 6 Comments

All the news you may have missed.

Flashback: In House Floor Speech, Rep. Cori Bush Honored Activist Infamous for “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon” Chant

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 05, 2023 29 Comments

In light of Bush's vile racist attack on Republican Byron Donalds, it's worth revisiting how Bush glorified someone who advocated violence against cops: "St. Louis and I rise today in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in memory of our brother Bassem Masri, a Ferguson activist ...."

ProPublica/The Atlantic Investigation of CRT Pushback Focuses on “Something Called the Legal Insurrection Foundation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2023 45 Comments

Our CriticalRace.org website is a focus of an article on the pushback against Critical Race Theory. The word "insurrection" in Legal Insurrection apparently left a professor at Florida State shaking in her boots. We've used our name since October 2008. Most people chuckle. We make no apologies for our oxymoron.

Germany: Migrant Gangs Armed with Fireworks ‘Ambush’ Police and Firefighters on New Year’s Eve

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 03, 2023 39 Comments

German media blames "masculinity" and "patriarchy."

Kevin McCarthy Makes Key Promise in Attempt to Secure Speaker Votes

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 02, 2023 44 Comments

However, nine Republicans rejected McCarthy's proposed rules while five remain committed to the no vote.

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