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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2011 13 Comments

while striking out at me at The Atlantic.  Read to the end to find out how and why. I have been a critic of Green, who is the Senior Editor of The Atlantic and writes a weekly column at The Boston Globe.   I criticized Green for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2011 9 Comments

In late December I posted my "not predictions" for 2011.  (My "predictions" are here.) Here are the first 10 "not predictions."  I think I'm doing pretty well, although some still are works in progress: There will be a government shutdown crisis over the House budget, which will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2011 55 Comments

Benjamin Korn of Jews for Sarah, writing at the JTA,  OP-ED: Jews becoming commonplace in conservative ‘new media’: Many reviews already have appeared of "The Undefeated," the soon-to-be-released documentary about Sarah Palin’s tenure in Alaska.Yet none of them -- even in The Los Angeles Times, Huffington...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2011 22 Comments

Late this afternoon, the 500th person registered with this blog just two weeks after registration opened. Thanks for signing on. If only they had had our 500, who knows: Update:  In response to some reader questions, registering has nothing to do with WordPress.  If you have a WordPress...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2011 10 Comments

From Robert Stacy McCain, on the eve of the 7 millionth visit to The Other McCain: One of the common complaints of newbie bloggers is that it’s impossible for them to break through into the top ranks of the blogosphere, because Big Bloggers hog up all the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2011 23 Comments

I've been away from the blog for, oh, seven hours. Are we still the ones we have been waiting for? Is there anything he's not willing to sell or raffle off to get reelected? Have any more people piled on Michele Bachmann? Is the Chief Cheesehead of the Supreme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2011 9 Comments

And I just saw them to help celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary.  I know, it's the White House trying to shut me down again. Thanks to a reader for alerting me to this block he now gets at work: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2011 25 Comments

I posted yesterday about my suspicions that Netroots Nation 2012 was scheduled for Providence, RI, a small convention market (and near my home in RI) in order to keep RightOnline away by booking almost all the major convention space and hotel rooms. Netroots Nation has been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2011 3 Comments

For those of you returning to work and who have not checked the blog this weekend, we safely landed on Saturday at 12:17 p.m. The landing was a little bumpy, but the blog quickly steadied, tossing out most of the bugs before the passengers deplaned. So now that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2011 1 Comment

.... until sometime before Monday.  Keep checking back, you'll know the transition has taken place when you automatically get redirected to http://www.legalinsurrection.com/.NO COMMENTS will be put through, so DON"T COMMENT anymore on the ".blogspot.com" site because the comments will not be put through and will not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2011 40 Comments

I've told the story of how Legal Insurrection got started before, but I'll give it a little more flavor. Prior to starting this blog, I was completely non-political.  I may have donated small amounts of money to a handful of candidates, but I was not politically...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2011 1 Comment

Seems like an appropriate blog post title.The bloggers were neither Syrian nor lesbian nor female, and according to my readers, the Republican Debate was not a debate.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2011 9 Comments

Look, I can understand someone being too worn out to blog.  After all, blogger burnout is a serious problem, often resulting in bloggers falling back on the old trick of pumping out quick, newsy bits and links in lieu of substance. How can we be expected to work the fields...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2011 10 Comments

Isn't that what got him in trouble?That's all this is.  Irrelevant nonsensical measurements of supposed "authority" using some unknown computer formula which is the equivalent of "voodo blogometrics."  Forget I ever mentioned it.  It will be gone in a flash.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2011 14 Comments

Joseph Cannon was one of the first and most vocal to claim that Andrew Breitbart either directly or through others had set up Anthony Weiner by hacking and/or spoofing the original tweet last Friday night which set off the firestorm.Cannon's theory of how Weiner was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2011 41 Comments

This weekend, lacking any new Weiner revelations (but see today), the left-blogosphere (but not exclusively the left) was preoccupied with proving that Sarah Palin was wrong when she said that Paul Revere had warned the British that the colonial militias were massing.  Relying on the Longfellow poem...

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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