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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2012 50 Comments
What a hack, Jim Talent who was used as Romney hit man on Newt now is going after Rick as well.  Come on, bring back John Sununu. Alan West is being followed Cataloging signature fraud and error on the WI recall. The quote Rick uses in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2012 102 Comments
I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Fontier Lab. The Frontier Lab, among other things, utilizes “deep values research” common in consumer products marketing analysis (Anne is a Cornell Business School graduate who concentrated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2012 2 Comments
Or not.  But now that Maurice “Red” Hinchey is retiring, you may want to bookmark these images. Thanks to a Cornell student reader for this photo:

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 27, 2012 10 Comments
Happy 2012, everyone! I just started my final semester at Cornell, which promises to be exciting. Before I delve into current events, I thought I would take my first post back to recap my winter break in south east Asia. I spent one week in...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on January 22, 2012 75 Comments
My name is Louis Lombardi and this is my first post on Legal Insurrection. I am a graduate of Penn State University and my introductory post is on the passing of legendary football coach Joe Paterno. You can get a complete biography of me by clicking on my name in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2012 53 Comments
I knew that my position on Bain Capital would fray some relationships in the conservative blogosphere, but this post by Don Surber took me by surprise, Why Republicans Oppose Capitalism: Newt and Rock Perry are trying to divide the party in a way I never imagined. I thought...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2012 76 Comments
As you know, I knew this day would come.  The only question was whether it would be early enough in the primaries to make a difference, too late in the primaries, or in the general election. But the day surely was to come when Mitt Romney’s years...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2012 34 Comments
Commenter Taxpayer1234 mentioned yesterday that s/he had written a graduate school paper on conservative political blogs, and s/he was kind enough to forward it to me. Three blogs were the focus of the paper, Legal Insurrection, Ace of Spades HQ, and The Other McCain.  Remember, everything...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 7 Comments
The Best Bumper Sticker of the Year, Worst Bumper Sticker of the Year and Best Tweet of the Year competitions have left me on the verge of blogger burnout, but I soldier on, because that’s just the way I am.  And the internet never stops. The Worst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 21 Comments
The government is not shutting down at midnight.  So here’s some more stuff: Incandescent light bulb ban not banned, but not really going into effect. Rich Lowry, Applying while Asian.  Commenter LukeHandCool made a similar point on the Tip Line earlier this month. Newt has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2011 19 Comments
Dr. Melissa Clouthier writing about An Indictment Of Right Leaning Journalism By Ben Domenech: Here’s the nutshell: The Left-leaning journalism investigates the right. The Right-leaning journalism provides commentary and (and Ben doesn’t say this, but I am) when they do rarely investigate, investigates the right after...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2011 51 Comments
I have been warned almost since I started blogging that one of these days I would show up on University of Chicago Law School Professor Brian Leiter’s radar and that his world-renowned pettiness and nastiness would be visited upon me. But at least I’m in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2011 5 Comments
Spotted by a student reader of LI in a Cornell parking lot:

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 09, 2011 11 Comments
As I mentioned yesterday, Ying Ma came back to Cornell last night to present her take on “Chinese state capitalism.” I took notes on the presentation: Basic overview: In the 1990s, China had an acrimonious relationship w. US. Politicians and commentators were constantly complaining about...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 07, 2011 6 Comments
Over at the DailyBeast, Stefan Theil has a really great write-up about rich nations interacting with poor nations, using a comparison of Texas/Louisiana/Florida & Greece/Italy/Spain.   Imagine 27 Barack Obamas and John Boehners trying to get a debt and banking crisis under control. That, in...

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 07, 2011 10 Comments
As Professor Jacobson wrote on Saturday,  the Herman Cain SuperPAC is running this race-card-playing ad. Other GOP commentators, especially Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, have also been making statements along these lines.  This is wrong, especially coming from solid conservative voices. To play the race...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2011 6 Comments
The Ithaca “Can Man” no longer can make a living, as reported by The Cornell Sun: Joel Harlan — whose assistant calls him the “Can Man” — has collected empty cans and bottles from Cornell’s fraternities, as well as other locations in Ithaca and around...
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