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Local opposition stymies NY SAFE Act gun law
There has been a mostly quiet refusal of county and local officials to implement and enforce the onerous provisions of the NY State gun law rushed through the state legislature in almost comical...
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Bill Owens (D NY-21), who never should have been elected, retires
For those of you who have been reading Legal Insurrection since the early days, the name Bill Owens may be familiar. Owens won the 2009 special election in what then was the NY-23 District (since...
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Branco Cartoon – The Pen to Serfdom
Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco 5.00 / 5 5 1 / 5 2 / 5 3 /...
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Just like Amazon.com, Obamacare has no idea who has paid for stuff already...
It’s bad enough that the Obama administration counts as “enrolled” people who merely have done the equivalent of the Amazon.com shopping cart — expressed the desire to have some stuff, in this case...
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Experts warn healthcare.gov still has security issues
Several cybersecurity experts warned that security issues still persist on healthcare.gov, according to statements made to news outlets and in testimony provided to a Congressional panel on Thursday....
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Propagandists with Ph.D’s: Month One of the anti-Israel academic boycott
It has been one month since the American Studies Association announced that its membership — or at least the small percentage who bothered to vote — approved an academic boycott of Israel. We have had...
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Ariel Sharon and media myths
I never expected Ariel Sharon to be treated fairly by the mainstream media. I’d like to reiterate one point made by Prof. Jacobson in his post memorializing Sharon: Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount...
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134 House Members sign letter against academic boycott of Israel
A total of 134 Members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter, organized by the offices of Reps. Peter Roksam (R) and Ted Deutch (D) condeming the academic boycott of Israel passed by the...
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Obama NSA Reform Speech (Video)
Obama just completed his speech on NSA reforms. Below the key video portion of the speech (full text here). I found this part to be a key dose of reality often lacking from the debate: First, everyone...
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Tom Coburn to retire early
I guess this was a surprise to most people, including me, via Fox News: Sen. Tom Coburn, one of Washington’s leading and most fiscally conservative lawmakers, announced Thursday he would be stepping...
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NY Fed Ct. sends Palin firefighter photo copyright suit to New Jersey
We previously have written about the copyright and trademark lawsuit by North Jersey Media Group against Sarah Palin and SarahPAC over a single use by Palin in a 9/11 Facebook post of a photo of...
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Friday night open thread
A handful of stories from across the web on Obama’s NSA reform speech, Hollywood hypocrisy, Obamacare and more. Something the President’s NSA speech today didn’t address. From the Wall Street Journal:...
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Unsustainability Studies Week at College Insurrection
Unsustainable: Scary Chart of the Day Recent Grads Struggle to Find Jobs That Require a Bachelor’s Degree Prediction: How the College Bubble Will Burst Loyola University Trims Deficit by $2 Million...
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Outlook for Ukraine is pretty bleak, no matter who prevails
Watching the coverage of Ukrainian protests last months, I found most Western media outlets a bit too eager: Yay! Protest! People on the streets! The Russian state media has its own agenda, of which,...
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I got rights
I recently was referred to disparagingly as a mere “blogger,” by an attorney in a matter I was reporting about, in an email in which “reply to all” was mistakenly selected. It was disappointing at many...
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Gawker analyzes Florida’s “Warning Shot” bill, implosion follows
The Washington Free Beacon did a wonderfully humorous job fisking a post at Gawker regarding Florida’s so-called “Warning Shot” law. I previously have explained and debunked many of the myths about...
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Tzipi Livni’s Boycott panic is a dead-end because it presumes the alternative...
Israel’s Justice Minister (and former Foreign Minister) Tzipi Livni has been sounding the panic button on the international boycott of Israel for at least a year. It was part of her political platform...
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#WhiteWomanPrivilege meets Festivus: The airing of bitter intra-feminist...
We have noted before the tensions between white liberal feminists and non-white liberal feminists. Sometimes it breaks out into a Twitter War, as it did when #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag...
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California Drought = Flood of New Rules
While the rest of the country has been enjoying the “Polar Vortex”, my home state has had a slightly different set of “climate change” issues to address. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency...
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U. Penn students stand up for Israel
Because we focus so much on the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement on campuses, it’s easy to get the impression that such anti-Israeli students are the majority. They are not. They are just the loud...
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