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Wendy Davis’ Open Carry announcment may cost her any chance of winning

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2014 34 Comments

"Your base is running away, Wendy."

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Hype-notized: Hillary-Wendy 2016 is “dream ticket”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2014 30 Comments

Yeah, that's the ticket.

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Wendy Davis is the Deja Victim candidate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2014 26 Comments

Putting your child out on stage to cry for you is not something most of us would do.

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Shadow theme song for Hillary 2016 shadow campaign: “I want you to want me”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2014 18 Comments

Same theme song she's played her whole political life.

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Absolutely brutal (and correct) assessment of Wendy Davis’ core political problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2014 61 Comments

"Americans will forgive a lot in a politician. But a woman who leaves her kids is just beyond the pale."

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Richard Sherman Wikipedia page vandalized after The Interview

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2014 10 Comments

Remember, Wikipedia is crowdsourced and subject to manipulation.

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Uh oh, Wendy Davis’ life story not what it seems

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2014 63 Comments

She left her husband the day after he made her last student loan payment

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#WhiteWomanPrivilege meets Festivus: The airing of bitter intra-feminist racial grievances

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2014 28 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game

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Liberal self-identification surges! (up 1 pt since 2008)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2014 11 Comments

Actually, only Democrats are more liberal, the rest of the country is more conservative.

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Donate to Legal Insurrection Building Fund, Part 2

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2013 34 Comments

In case you missed it over the long Thanksgiving weekend, this is our semi-annual fund drive. Please consider a donation or subscription. Also, given that this is CYBER MONDAY, consider using the Amazon.com links in the sidebar since a small portion of your purchase goes...

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“Thanks, Suckers” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2013 4 Comments

From Kurt Schlichter, “thanks, suckers”: Young Obama Supporters Get Straight Talk from Conservative California Lawyer Tin Soldiers coming: Kent State Says “Aloha” to $17,000 for Hawaiian Sex Week Hey Tin Soldiers, don’t lean forward: Gay Sex Pundit’s $24K Lecture on Fisting and Fetishes [Pro tip:...

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Psst, Hillary operatives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2013 28 Comments

I have been telling you for at least a year that Elizabeth Warren will be a serious challenger to Hillary, if she wants it. You have to realize that Democrats in general, and particularly the liberal base, don’t give a hoot about Warren’s rip-off of...

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The Necessary Crisis between Iran and the United States

Posted by David Gerstman on October 27, 2013 13 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 10/27/2013 - Iran has been at war with the West for at least thirty years.

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Run, Elizabeth, Run

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2013 20 Comments

David Frum at The Daily Beast, and Alex Pareene at Salon.com, each write about Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz, and 2016. Frum sees a Warren run ending in defeat at the hands of the Clinton machine, How Ted Cruz Can Win in 2016: Democrats liked Hillary...

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The soft bigotry of “high cheekbones”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2013 26 Comments

Greg Pollowitz at National Review asked, Which Is Worse: ‘High Cheekbones’ or ‘Redskins’? A few things are bothering me about Bob Costas calling the term “Redskins” a slur on Sunday night. One, Democrats had absolutely no issue when then senate candidate Elizabeth Warren justified her...

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Legal Insurrection is 5 years old

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2013 43 Comments

You know the story why this blog was started on October 12, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. Here’s what the blog looked like on November 15, 2008 and for the first 2 1/2 years while we were on Google Blogger (Yikes! It’s like looking at your junior high school photo): Hey, look...

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Witch Hunt: Media Matters finds a “Staunch Conservative” at The Boston Globe

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2013 18 Comments

A blog post yesterday at Media Matters pretty much sums up what is wrong with the organization. The Boston Globe is about as liberal a newspaper as they come.  As we demonstrated during the 2012 Massachusetts Senate campaign, The Globe ran cover for Elizabeth Warren,...

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