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Obama to pick former Procter & Gamble executive for VA Secretary
President Obama is expected to announce former CEO of Procter & Gamble Bob McDonald as his pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. From Reuters: President Barack Obama has chosen former...
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Call to Action: “Kansas is the battlefield. Remember Mississippi.”
The Mississippi Senate Runoff election was viewed by the media as the last, best chance for a Tea Party inspired Republican primary challenger to unseat a Republican incumbent in a primary. But there...
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Branco Cartoon – The Smell Test
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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Rape Culture Theory Ensnares Innocent Men
Many people hearing talk of America’s campus “rape culture” might be tempted to dismiss the overheated rhetoric as harmless. Despite little evidence “rape culture” exists, though, three recent...
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Supreme Court limits compelled public sector union dues
The Supreme Court just handed down its decision in Harris v. Quinn, where the issues were (via ScotusBlog): (1) Whether a state may, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United...
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Hobby Lobby wins in 5-4 decision over Obamacare contraception mandate
Note: this post has been updated. The Supreme Court just handed down a decision in the blockbuster Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby case, setting new–if narrow–precedent governing how much control government...
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Zimmerman Libel Suit Against NBC Thrown Out
How can we miss her, when she won’t go away? Judge Debra Nelson, who presided over the murder trial of George Zimmerman, today issued a ruling dismissing his libel suit against NBC (a copy of that...
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Bodies of kidnapped Israeli teens found
The bodies of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped two weeks — Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel — have been located by the IDF near Hebron. Details as to how and when they were killed...
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Obama Bypasses Congress On Immigration Reform
In what appeared to be an attempt to divert the news cycle from another round of SCOTUS smackdowns, President Obama announced this afternoon that he will bypass Congress to enact “comprehensive...
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Hobby Lobby ruling sets off nuclear reaction
The vitriol from the political left didn’t take too long to manifest following the 5-4 Supreme Court decision this morning in the Hobby Lobby case. Goodness gracious. RT @SheaDiamond: F**k you...
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The really old Constitution had a pretty good month
Who can forget this snippet of wisdom from 2010? I’d say June 2014 was a pretty good month for that old document. Last week the Supremes shot down Obama’s “recess” appointments because under that old...
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What will be America’s reaction to murder of three Israeli teens?
What will be America’s reaction to the killing of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers? We already know Obama’s reaction: the mouthing of platitudes, urging restraint, and a plea for both sides to...
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@SCOTUSblog trolls confused haters on Twitter
By now you’ve seen Monday’s Supreme Court decisions here and here, which – quite predictably – set off a nuclear reaction on Twitter. Some of that outrage was misguidedly directed at SCOTUSblog by...
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Fact Check: Mostly true that Martha Robertson “Out of This World” (#NY23)
Martha Robertson is the Emily’s List-backed, DCCC “Red to Blue” Democratic challenger in NY-23, my home district. We have been following the race closely, and have exposed a number of issues that have...
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While you were focused elsewhere, Ukraine-Russia confrontation just heated up
This seems like a broken record, but the last 24 hours have turned the standoff in Eastern Ukraine from a “ceasefire” to a hot war that doesn’t appear to be cooling down soon. On Friday, June 20,...
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The FIRE launches national litigation effort against campus speech codes
Almost daily we report here and at College Insurrection on the almost insane application of campus speech codes, frequently utilized disproportionately against non-politically correct (i.e....
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Three Israeli teens murdered, what comes next?
In the wake of yesterday’s awful discovery that Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frankel had been murdered by the abductors, it’s now clearer what happened. The Times of Israel reported What...
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Argentina Enters Technical Default – 30 Days ‘Til Bust?
During the past two weeks Argentina’s soccer team has rolled over its competition to advance to the World Cup Quarterfinals. Meanwhile, the team’s country has, yet again, collapsed into default. For 12...
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Surprise: Unaccompanied children crossing border may have right to stay
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. If you haven’t heard of it before now, you probably will as tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors flood across the border, having been “abandoned” by their...
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Protesters block San Diego Area illegal immigrant processing site
Thousands of unaccompanied minors have flooded across our border, overwhelming border agents leading to immigration officials opening processing centers around the country. In the San Diego area,...
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