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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 08, 2011 8 Comments
I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest speaker at the Independent Media class taught by Jeff Cohen at Ithaca College.  One of the students posted about it: “My independent media professor invited William A. Jacobson, creator of conservative blog “Legal Insurrection,” to our class...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2011 14 Comments
I don’t know if this is a sign that perhaps all the noise and fury from the Democrats and unions in Wisconsin does not reflect reality, but it is worth noting that Republicans have collected enough signatures to force a recall election in Senate District 22,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 01, 2011 0 Comments
Kathleen The Cornell Review began the week after Spring Break with esteemed Cornell alum, Keith Olbermann, stomping on a copy of February’s publication and calling most conservatives stupid. So while the week started rough, today the Review team distributed a parody of our resident lefty-newspaper,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2011 6 Comments
Via Israel Matzav, a translation of the Hebrew prayer hung above the bed of 11-year old Yoav Fogel, murdered in his bed by an intruder who also killed several members of his family, including his baby sister, as they slept: “May it be Your will, L-rd G-d...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 07, 2011 4 Comments
Christopher Hitchens has really been phenomenal in the past few weeks. In his Vanity Fair April article, he does not disappoint. He mulls over all the revolutions he has seen, and concludes that Egypt is not as poignant as it seems: Neither in exile nor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 4 Comments
Andrew Sullivan loves to accuse conservatives and Republicans of blowing various racial and other dog whistles: The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh (“Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles?”) “Media Is Everything” (“Breitbart, like Drudge, gets the web. He understands its subversive and rhetorical...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 02, 2011 6 Comments
K. McCaffrey — Last week, Britain’s chief central banker, Mervyn King, painted a grim picture of the years to come in the UK. – “In 2011, real wages are likely to be no higher than they were in 2005… One has to go back to...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 19, 2011 11 Comments
(K McCaffrey) — I’ve read two really fascinating articles in the past twenty-four hours. In Politico, Roger Simon delved into some interesting territory by discussing coverage of the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner. In “Is Jared Loughner insane or just evil?” Simon looks at our modern...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 09, 2011 11 Comments
There was a recent article in the WSJ by Amy Chua detailing the superiority of Chinese mothers. “[The author was] using the term “Chinese mother” loosely. [As s]ome Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents qualify too.” Basically, being a Chinese mother entails never letting...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 12, 2010 8 Comments
My favorite Congressman, Paul Ryan, is really on the ball this Sunday. Today, he was on Fox discussing the end of looming tax hikes. He also had an op-ed published in one of his hometown newspapers. “The deficit debate is not merely an exercise in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 17, 2010 8 Comments
This weekend, I found myself in San Francisco International Airport for a long weekend in the Bay Area. After a pleasant weekend, and then a wait in an egregiously long line, I found myself in one of the famed full body scanners, the subject of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2010 14 Comments
David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, has a really important demand which requires everyone’s immediate attention: Media Matters’ Brock challenges Palin to release tapes “Sarah Palin has made serious accusations of journalistic malfeasance. Either Palin accurately described the tapes, or she did not. America’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 8 Comments
I think a lot of conservatives are afraid to put bumper stickers on their cars for fear of vandalism.  Call it the “driving while conservative” phenomenon; or maybe “parking while conservative.” Vandalism of McCain signs, and houses/car bearing those signs, was widespread during the 2008...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2010 2 Comments
The day after Obamacare passed, I wrote Pep Talk.  Seems pertinent today as well: Last night was bad. The law passed by the Senate and House really is that horrible. But it’s the morning after, and your mourning should be over. The mainstream media and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2010 42 Comments
I wasn’t going to post on this, because I figured there had been enough publicity for him already.  But now that I see (via Instapundit and TaxProf) that the controversy has made its way into Forbes and many major websites, I’ll weigh in on the case of...
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