Yesterday a Texas teenager, who happens to be a Muslim, brought a homemade clock to school and was arrested because the clock was mistaken for a bomb. Some people are blaming racism but zero tolerance policies are the real problem.
NBC News reports that he won’t be charged:
No Charges For Ahmed Mohamed,...
On Thursday night, September 3, 2015, I was a guest on the Todd Herman Show on KTTH 770 AM in Seattle.
Todd is a frequent reader of Legal Insurrection, and I appreciated his many compliments.
We talked Scott Walker, the John Doe investigations, and Walker’s struggling presidential campaign.
“In this case, their entire theory...
Thursday evening I joined Red State’s Leon Wolf and his panel of lovely gentlemen for the weekly vcast of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Friends.
Over wine and cocktails, we discussed the Sandra Bland incident, Planned Parenthood’s baby part harvesting, and 2016.
We began by discussing Sandra Bland and the circumstances that...
I have a column posted at National Review, Trump’s Lesson: Voters Are Furious about Illegal Immigration
As I’ve told readers before, I write elsewhere from time to time in order to gain exposure to new...
Frank Luntz recently conducted polling of American “opinion elites” attitudes toward Israel.
The results, but not the data, were published in an article by David Horvitz, Editor in Chief of The Times of Israel, Israel losing Democrats, ‘can’t claim bipartisan US support,’ top pollster warns:
Three quarters of highly educated, high income, publicly...
On June 30, 2015, I appeared on the Joe Thomas Show on WCHV in Charlottesville, VA, to talk about the state of the Supreme Court, and the two recent blockbuster decisions in gay marriage and Obamacare.
We touched on the rulings, the reaction, and proposals to put limits on the Court, such as
As part of my effort to reach new audiences, I have a post at IJ Review regarding my recent trip to Israel, I Spent Two Weeks Talking With Israelis. Here’s What They Had To Say About President Obama and...
I was interviewed on the Joe Thomas Show on WCHV, Charlottesville, VA.
We started off talking about Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president. My take:
“Donald Trump entering the race is pretty much like somebody throwing a hand grenade into the room. He is...
In 2011, ABC News launched a major rebranding effort focused on the slogan “See the Whole Picture,” featuring key news personalities including George Stephanopoulos:
Today ABC News launched a major re-branding initiative. The last time that ABC News spoke directly with its audience about what defines ABC News was over a decade...
I have an Op-Ed in The Washington Examiner, Expect even more executive power grabs from Hillary:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign launch was meant to present a different side of Hillary — a softer, more humble, less power-hungry version of the candidate. The “Scoobie” van road trip to Iowa portrayed Hillary as the...
I appeared on Saturday, May 16, 2015, on The Craig Silverman Show on 710 KNUS in Aurora, Colorado.
The conversation covered my background, what it means to be a conservative on campus, the anti-Israel boycott movement, the Pope on a Palestinian “state,” the Pew Poll on Christians, and the fate of Christians...
Readers are aware that Bowdoin College in Maine recently held a student body referendum for a full academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
It failed miserably.
I have a post...
On March 27, 2015, I appeared in studio on Washington’s Drive at Five hosted by Larry O’Connor on WMAL 630 in D.C.
We touched on two completely unrelated, but interesting, subjects: Obama’s plan to make an end run around Congress to the U.N. Security Council to sign a nuke deal with Iran,...
On Thursday, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to House staffers on the BDS movement, and the role Congress legitimately can play in addressing the new form of the century-old Arab boycott of Jews in the land of Israel. I spoke about pending legislation, as well as possible...
POLL HAS BEEN RESTARTED (NOON EASTERN, 2-20) BECAUSE OF MISTAKES IN THE ORIGINAL. PLEASE VOTE AGAIN IF YOU ALREADY DID SO.
In my column yesterday at The Daily Caller, I asked: Will CPAC Thin Or Exp...
Is this now a series?
At my speech in Rochester I found Philly Guy.
On Wednesday night, February 18, 2015, I appeared on a CAMERA panel in West Palm Beach about countering the anti-Israel movement on campus. I don’t know the official count, but I’m guesstimating about 200 people in attendance.
I found Legal...
As mentioned in a prior post, an upstate New York group calling itself Central NY Committee for Justice in Palestine just launched a campaign to convince GreenStar Food Coop in Ithaca to boycott Israeli products,
