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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2013 7 Comments
From MrE: I post as MrE on your blog. My wife and I took a retirement celebration trip to Holden Beach, North Carolina, where I spotted this license plate at the Provision Company Restaurant (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Provision-Company/208280515935956). Forty years ago, I’d have passed this along for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2013 27 Comments
The hostage standoff at the Nairobi Mall attacked by Somali jihadists still is ongoing. There are conflicting reports as to the involvement of Israeli commandos in trying to free the hostages, with some reports indicating an active role, other reports just an advisory role. At...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2013 33 Comments
It happens in just about every mass shooting or terrorist event.  The initial media reports are inaccurate, yet those hurried inaccuracies feed a political narrative that is hard to break even after the facts are “corrected.” In the Newtown shooting, the wrong person was identified...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 2 Comments
In a move that is apt to stun the California-critics among Legal Insurrection readers, our state legislature passed a pro-fracking measure: Oil and gas drillers that use a technique known as fracking would face new rules in California under legislation that was sent to governor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2013 214 Comments
I believe Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz to be “natural born Citizens” and eligible to be President.  Here’s why. 1. Summary There are few eligibility requirements to be President.  You don’t have to be smart, wise, experienced, honest, educated, or a particular gender or race....

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 26, 2013 32 Comments
One of my cherished memories is camping with my husband and son in Yosemite. The beauty and serenity of the park are breathtaking. So, the news that it is at the center of one of the largest wildfires in California history is devastating. At this...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 28, 2013 24 Comments
As an amateur historian, I often like watching old news and documentary clips; via LA Observed, I came across a fascinating one featuring another metropolitan area: The background: This public domain film narrated by then-mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh was made in 1965 to promote Detroit....

Posted by New Neo on July 28, 2013 148 Comments
Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He’s been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he’s gotten a lot of flak for it. It can’t have been easy for him. Here are some excerpts from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2013 26 Comments
[Note — More decisions will be released Tuesday — check back here at 10 a.m.] Full opinion embedded at bottom of post Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:14 Amy Howe: The opoinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. 10:15 Amy Howe: The holding...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 04, 2013 17 Comments
At College Insurrection, I recently covered a West Virginia professor who ranted that his state was a “national laughingstock” while deeming NRA members traitors. The presumption! California is the nation’s laughingstock! And to prove my point, here is a story about one of  our most...
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