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State Legislators Are Mounting A Stand Against “Critical Theory’s Long March”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2022 33 Comments

Andrew Sullivan: "If the left has stealthily changed public education from above, the right has now used the only power they have to fight back — political clout in state legislatures."...

An ‘anti-woke’ coalition emerged in the 2020 elections

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2020 24 Comments

There is a lot of usual inside-the-beltway conventional nonsense analysis and bluster going around about the elections. Ignore it, it's the same dishonest take we've seen in the mainstream media and polling organizations for years.

Kamala Harris tweets radical leftist advocacy of “equity” over “equality”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 01, 2020 61 Comments

Kamala Harris tweeted an animated video which sounds familiar to those of us who have lived or followed radical leftist campus politics. The video espouses "equity" over "equality."

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1286528805906120704

Portland protesters chant fabricated Black Lives Matter “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” slogan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2020 24 Comments

Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Insensitive Truth Telling. Proceed at your own risk. Hey, remember all the way back to the first week of June 2020? It seems like it was 7 years ago, but it was only 7 weeks ago. Oh my, how much has transpired.

Surviving the death of the blogosphere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2018 21 Comments

You want to know what the blogosphere used to look like? Read the post I wrote on September 29, 2009, regarding our one millionth visit, Thanks a Million! I don't know how many of these links are still live, but the number that are not is the point:

It’s still the illegal immigration, stupid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2017 16 Comments

James Carville famously salvaged Bill Clinton's political career by focusing on economic problems people were facing during the 1992 campaign. The term "it's the economy, stupid," attributed to Carville as Clinton's campaign strategist, became the mantra for a generation of Democrat politicians and political strategists:

https://twitter.com/CraigRBrittain/status/822992119765708800

Far left uses “intersectionality” to defend indefensible Islamism

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2017 3 Comments

The cancellation of an appearance by noted atheist author and speaker Richard Dawkins is just the latest example of campus speech shut down. We covered the shut down in Richard Dawkins Berkeley Event Canceled Over Tweets Critical of Islamism: Dawkins refused to apologize, as reported at Berkeleyside:

Death by Blogging

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2015 16 Comments

"Blogger Burnout" is a frequent joke around here. But it's true. Andrew Sullivan quit blogging in late January 2015, as we reported at the time Breaking – Big Blogger Burns Out. Sullivan's announcement focused mostly on a desire to change paths:

Why? Two reasons. The first is one I hope anyone can understand: although it has been the most rewarding experience in my writing career, I’ve now been blogging daily for fifteen years straight (well kinda straight). …. The second is that I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again…. I want to have an idea and let it slowly take shape, rather than be instantly blogged. I want to write long essays that can answer more deeply and subtly the many questions that the Dish years have presented to me. I want to write a book…. When I write again, it will be for you, I hope – just in a different form. I need to decompress and get healthy for a while; but I won’t disappear as a writer. But this much I know: nothing will ever be like this again, which is why it has been so precious; and why it will always be a part of me, wherever I go; and why it is so hard to finish this sentence and publish this post.

Sullivan now is the focus of a report at CNN, Andrew Sullivan: Blogging nearly killed me:

Breaking – Big Blogger Burns Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2015 24 Comments

Blogger Burnout. A frequent topic here, first visited on January 15, 2009, Add “Blogger Burnout” To The List Of Blogger Ailments. For those of you keeping track, that would be about 3 months after I started Legal Insurrection. Three months! Even then I realized that being a blogger could be about the most burning-out of things. After a while, I got Sick and Tired of Blogger Burnout Stories:

Okay, blogging is tough. We get it. Great Grandma and Grandpa had it easy, with rotary phones and all (“You mean your Great Grandparents had a phone?”). If I hear another blogger complain about blogger burnout, I’m going to scream.... Let me guess, you worked the fields all day, so you don’t have the strength to push down on the keyboard with your bloodied, swollen fingers? ... Haven’t you figured it out, there is only one original blog post which, like the source yeast at the Guinness brewery, has been kept alive for generations so that others may cut from and paste to it. It’s not rocket science.

Yet I endured. Somehow. Somewhere. There was a place for us. Somewhere, a place for us in this internet.

So, was evisceration of Brendan Eich “a PR stunt … nothing but a PR stunt”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2014 38 Comments

If people were played here, when does the boycott of OKCupid start?...

Before Brendan Eich, they came for the Mormons

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2014 25 Comments

The template was drawn in November 2008, and unleashed when Obama evolved....

SPLC doesn’t have the guts to put Bill Maher on its “Anti-Muslim” Hate Watch list

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2013 6 Comments

Mark Steyn observes in The Collapsing of the American Skull: One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss...

“Deranged Propagandist”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2011 19 Comments

That's what Andrew Sullivan calls me because I pointed out facts which contradict his narrative of Sarah Palin.Funny thing about facts, Andy. Name calling can't change them.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

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