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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2013 7 Comments
As many of you know, Ed Burns implemented a custom design for the blog, including many custom features both in front and behind the scenes, and also transferred all of our posts and comments from Blogger when we moved in June 2011. Ed also helped us roll...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 58 Comments
Ted Cruz is making all the right enemies, and they are out for him often and early. For Marco Rubio the meme is WATER, for Cruz it’s NASTY. The title of this NY Times article originally was Ted Cruz Runs Counter To The Senate’s Courtly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 2 Comments
As mentioned during Our own inauguration day, the focus this year is local: …. at the state and local level we can, and have been, very effective.  That will be a focus of the Legal Insurrection in the coming year — changing what we can change,...

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 Leslie Eastman on January 10, 2013 21 Comments
I am still shocked by the Speaker of the House John Boehner’s shock that President Obama said, “We don’t have a spending problem.” That Obama is using the debt as a weapon of mass destruction cannot be a surprise to anyone who has followed news...

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 20, 2012 17 Comments
A follow up to Hopeless in Rhode Island. Boston talk radio host Michael Graham writes, DON’T Run, Scott, Don’t Run! Actually, I have no problem with Scott Brown running in the special election we all expect to have in a few months after John Kerry...

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...
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