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American Thinker disables its comment section

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2021 90 Comments

The demise of comment sections has been happening for a decade.

https://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2021/01/09/kathy-shaidle-1964-2021/

Kathy Shaidle — 5 Feet of Fury — RIP

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2021 10 Comments

Canadian blogging pioneer and friend of Legal Insurrection Kathy Shaidle passed away today after a battle with Ovarian cancer.

Mike LaChance’s Top 10 Posts Of 2020

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 02, 2021 1 Comment

This year I decided to sort my posts by month and just pick a favorite from almost each one. It's been such a crazy year, I figured this might simplify things. Here we go.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RedWingGrips/status/1308444868595912705

Legal Insurrection’s Most-Viewed Posts of 2020

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2021 6 Comments

Happy New Year to Legal Insurrection readers! 2020 was a boom year for Legal Insurrection in many ways, including website traffic.

Vijeta Uniyal of Legal Insurrection Named to Algemeiner’s “Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life 2020”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2020 10 Comments

The Algemeiner “was founded in 1972 by famed journalist Gershon Jacobson as Der Algemeiner Journal and was originally published in Yiddish.” It’s one of the leading “Jewish” publications, more moderate in its politics than some others, and a source we frequently link to for matters regarding the anti-Israel movement on campuses.

Baby Walt is One-Year-Old!

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 25, 2020 32 Comments

Last Thanksgiving was the worst Thanksgiving I have ever had. My husband and I got up and dressed in the morning and headed to the NICU to spend some precious time with our four-day-old son, Baby Walt and had planned to come back and do our best to enjoy the rest of the day with our daughters and family. Walter was born with a very rare congenital heart defect of which he had an incredibly severe case, one we were not aware of until his birth.

King Harv’s Imperial Coffees does it again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2020 27 Comments

You may recall that in June 2018 I wrote about a shipment of coffee I received from reader David, who run's King Harv's Imperial Coffees, a family business. King Harv's specializes in exotic and rare coffees, not the sort of bean you can get even from most specialty roasters.

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More comment sections bite the dust

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2020 90 Comments

Inside Higher Ed provides pretty thorough and good coverage of, ahem, higher ed. I don't visit it daily, generally when there's some issue that pops up. I have found their comment section to be relatively sane, *relatively* being the key word. So I was surprised when I just noticed that Inside Higher Ed shut down its comment sections as of July 1, 2020:

All 4,000 cadets are returning to the U.S. Air Force Academy for the fall semester

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 26, 2020 18 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that my son accepted an appointment at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Problems with website (Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 12, 2020 28 Comments

We're working on it....

Baby Walt Update: 7 Months Old and Chunky as Can Be

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 30, 2020 27 Comments

It's been a few months since I've shared an update on Baby Walt, mainly thanks to the world shutting down and life changing suddenly and dramatically, though not necessarily badly. Walt turned 7 months old last week, which is hard to believe and also, truly miraculous.

#Obamagate is simply Obama being Obama

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2020 67 Comments

There was a time in the long ago past that we did Open Threads. Basically opening the floor to whatever you wanted to talk about in the comment section. I have a lot of topics on my plate, but every now and then you need to stop and pause.

Wuhan coronavirus a possible “media extinction event”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2020 88 Comments

Given the pervasive distrust of media, particularly national mainstream media, news that the Wuhan coronavirus crisis is hitting news media hard may not garner a lot of sympanthy. But the hardest hit is at the local level, not the names you know and love/hate. Buzzfeed says The Coronavirus Is A Media Extinction Event: