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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 12 Comments
I’m interviewed in The Washington Times Communities section, with a fairly nice description and graphic: Since it went online during late 2008, Legal Insurrection has established  itself as a unique legal blog. With a focus on current events, and analyzation  of these from a distinctively...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 35 Comments
Chuck Hagel was an embarrassment yesterday at this confirmation hearing.  John Podhoretz has it right: Well, as a result of this confirmation hearing — the most disastrous of its kind since another veteran senator, John Tower, blew himself up in his pursuit of the same...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 31, 2013 1 Comment
I am delighted to let Legal Insurrection readers know that my College Insurrection compatriot, Aleister of American Glob, will be on BlogTalkRadio.com’s Canto Talk program tonight (Thursday, Jan. 31st) at 7 pm Pacific/9 pm Central/10 pm Eastern Standard Time (click here for link). It is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 13 Comments
Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2012 14 Comments
Fighting the conservative media on Newt, including attempts to strip Newt of his accomplishments and history. Defending Rush against Media Matters and StopRush. Helping advance Mia Love to national attention. Fighting the false racial narrative in the Trayvon Martin shooting. Helping to defeat Richard Lugar....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2012 10 Comments
There were 10 videos produced or enabled by Legal Insurrection included in the competition for Legal Insurrection Video of the Year. The results of the Reader Poll are in, and the winner was Anne’s attempt to ask Elizabeth Warren a simple question at the Netroots...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2012 11 Comments
It’s getting towards that time of the year when we start selecting the Best Of. 2012 was the first year in which we started focusing on videos, thanks in large part to Anne joining us in June.  A couple of our videos changed the national...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2012 7 Comments
Using a sports team name which may be offensive to Native Americans, or ripping off their heritage and identity for your own professional gain? The team bus of the Liberal High School (KS) Redskins, in a photo take in early November: Professor, On my way home...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2012 28 Comments
John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say: Sources tell ABC News that President Obama has decided that he will nominate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to be secretary of state. If confirmed, which he will be (emphasis mine): If nominated by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 7 Comments
From Molly Ball at The Atlantic, Sorry, Democrats: 4 Ways Progressives Are About to Have Their Hopes Dashed: Ever since Election Day, the left has been riding high. Not only did President Obama and Democrats across the country win big on Nov. 6, the president...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2012 40 Comments
There is something seriously wrong. Via The Boston Globe (h/t NRO)(emphasis mine): As Elizabeth Warren walked through the marble corridors of the Capitol on Tuesday, she tried assiduously to keep a low profile. Walking arm in arm with Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Warren passed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2012 44 Comments
Andrew Marcus, producer of Hating Breitbart, After Election 2012: WWBD — What Would Breitbart Do? Everything that Andrew predicted in my film, Hating Breitbart, played out in real-time during the election right before our eyes.  From Candy Crowley interrupting and taking Obama’s side in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 54 Comments
Operation Counterweight 2012 is over.  I reported the results in an earlier post, here is my assessment. The first thing you need to understand is that by definition we chose difficult races, not easy ones.  The goal was to try to flip Democratic seats or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 78 Comments
The time has arrived. You can follow the Legal Insurrection Election Night Twitter Feed embedded below for the fastest results — no one can type a blog entry as fast as Twitter. The Authors at Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection also will be updating in the dialogue...
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