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Minneapolis City Council Members Who Voted to Defund Police Get Taxpayer Funded Private Security

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2020 33 Comments

The City Council of Minneapolis recently voted unanimously to defund the city's police department. Now certain members of the council claim they are getting threats, so they have been given private security. At taxpayer expense, naturally.

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Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 27, 2020 20 Comments

As cancel anything pre-Marxist Black Lives Matters moves from Confederate cancellation to all of American history, Princeton University has caved to the radical left's demands that it remove Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school.

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Phase Two In Push To ‘Abolish the Police’: Isolate Police Unions From Labor Movement

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 24, 2020 35 Comments

The recent efforts to oust police unions from the larger labor movement are alarming.  Not because I am a fan of public unions, I'm not, but because of what it reveals about the tactics of the left in demonizing, isolating, and eventually destroying their target du jour.

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VP for Research at Michigan State U. Forced to Resign After Blog Posts Deemed ‘Racist’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 21, 2020 52 Comments

Dr. Stephen Hsu is a professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University, where he also served as the vice president for research and innovation. He is now one of the latest casualties of the manic cancel culture currently gripping academia.

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Vermont School Principal Placed on Leave for Criticism of Black Lives Matter

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 17, 2020 87 Comments

Tiffany Riley, the principal of Windsor High School in Vermont, has been laced on leave for a comment she made on social media about the Black Lives Matter movement. Riley's Facebook post prompted an emergency meeting of the local school board which was "uniformly appalled."

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The Left Targets Tucker Carlson’s Advertisers… Again

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 13, 2020 20 Comments

In recent weeks, Tucker Carlson of FOX News has been a lone voice in the media wilderness. No one on television has been more brutally honest about what is happening in America right now. Carlson has even had the guts to criticize Black Lives Matter. For this, he must be punished.

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Berklee College of Music in Boston Apologizes for Letting Police Use Bathrooms During Protests

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2020 30 Comments

Berklee College of Music is located on Massachusetts Avenue, in the heart of Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. During the protests for George Floyd, Boston police officers were posted near the school and were allowed to use the school's bathrooms. Now the school is apologizing for this.

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You Will Be Made To Bow: White Leftists Kneel Before Blacks They Harmed By Being Born White

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 04, 2020 91 Comments

I've written well over 1,500 posts for Legal Insurrection over the years, and one that stands out in my memory as a heartbreaking emblem of "woke" culture was a post about a school in New York City that was teaching little K-8 white children they were "born racist."  Children were coming home in tears, telling their parents that they were "a bad person."

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Progressive Student Group Demands Yale Tap Endowment to Ease Economic Burden of Students and Staff

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 26, 2020 7 Comments

“Yale has a huge amount of wealth and power in their endowment”...

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Polling: Joe Biden Has an Enthusiasm Problem With Young Voters

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 08, 2020 20 Comments

Young Democratic voters are not particularly excited about the prospect of voting for Joe Biden, and who can blame them? The primary began with over 20 candidates and ended with, well, Joe Biden. Young voters tend to be more progressive and they're getting the most Democrat establishment candidate available.

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Liberal Student Group at George Washington U. Blasts Other Liberal Groups as Too White

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 26, 2020 8 Comments

"Students Against Imperialism"...

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Media Hate Narrative: Trump Killing His Own Elderly Voters Could Swing Election

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 24, 2020 50 Comments

If you've spent any time on Twitter during the Coronavirus crisis, you may have noticed that some people on the left seem to enjoy fantasizing about the deaths of Trump supporters and how it could impact the election. This comes from the same people who like to say Trump lacks empathy.

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Stacey Abrams Criticizes GA Gov. Brian Kemp’s Plan to Reopen State as ‘Dangerously Incompetent’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 21, 2020 48 Comments

We recently pointed out that Stacey Abrams is now campaigning to be Joe Biden's running mate. Naturally, she has to have an opinion on when Georgia's economy should be reopened, and of course, it's negative. At least she is finally acknowledging she is not the governor of Georgia.

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Virginia is gone, Gov. Ralph Northam of ‘blackface’ and ‘Klan robes’ infamy signs far-left agenda into law

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 15, 2020 52 Comments

While the nation has been focused on the Coronavirus crisis, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and his Democrat-controlled legislature, have been hard at work passing new laws. Northam has signed numerous bills into law on everything from abortion to gun control. Virginia as we knew it is gone.

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Progressive Youth Groups Issue List of Demands to the Joe Biden Campaign

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 09, 2020 18 Comments

Now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign, Joe Biden is truly the presumptive Democratic nominee. Progressives are wasting no time letting Biden know what he must do to win their votes.

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Democrats Using Crisis to Advance Progressive Agenda

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 04, 2020 23 Comments

It is increasingly obvious that Democrats see an upside to the Coronavirus crisis, and naturally it is all about politics and power. How do we know this? They keep saying it out loud.

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Left Tries, and Fails, to “Cancel” Owners of Mexican Restaurant Spotted at Trump Rally

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 03, 2020 31 Comments

Democrats have a problem with Latino voters, and it's very similar to the problem they have with other voting blocs. Instead of seeing Latinos as people who care about more than illegal immigration, Democrats don't talk to Latinos about jobs, health care, education, taxes, national security, or anything, really, other than illegal immigration.

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Unions For Thee But Not For We: Leftist ‘Young Turks’ Fights Unionization

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 25, 2020 21 Comments

In a classic case of liberal hypocrisy, the progressive YouTube program "The Young Turks" is in turmoil because management is opposing efforts by employees to unionize.

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