Hopeless in Massachusetts
A follow up to Hopeless in Rhode Island. Boston talk radio host Michael Graham writes, DON’T Run, Scott, Don’t Run! Actually, I have no problem with Scott Brown running in the special election we all...
View ArticleCory Booker decides not to challenge Christie in 2014
Can you blame him? From NBC news (h/t Hot Air): Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year’s gubernatorial race and will instead explore a run for...
View ArticleIn the wake of Sandy Hook, cooler heads must prevail
In the days after I reported here on the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, the gun control debate has raged. The first gun control argument was leveled, quite literally, before the deceased...
View ArticlePlan B fails — Now the House needs to consider Plan C
Just flashed across the screens was that the final vote on the tax portion of so-called Plan B had been cancelled tonight because John Boehner did not have enough votes. What a mess. You don’t go there...
View ArticleSee, it’s not our images-ination
A view of another side of the vehicle featured yesterday, photographed by Jon in Georgia. I finally was able to focus on one of the stickers, and it’s quite correct. And says a lot about how we let it...
View ArticleBranco Cartoon – The End
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View ArticleNeither rain, nor snow, nor…
Fiscal cliff? Well that last one might have the post office stumped. A failure to reach a compromise this year just might have big implications for the struggling United States Postal Service. It’s...
View ArticleNoted windsurfer and Jenjhis Khan expert nominated for Sec State
It’s going to be official this afternoon, per news reports. From the archives, windsurfer extraordinaire, Jenjhis Khan historian, witness to most famous tasing ever, will report for duty. He was...
View ArticleNRA Press Conf — “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good...
Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, conducted a press conference today. He did not back down on the issue of gun control. He ripped into the media, politicians, the culture and the failure to protect our...
View ArticleBenghazi ball keeps on bouncing
Via Fox News: A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to...
View ArticleThe Boehner of our existence
In the immortal words of Speaker John Boehner (via the New York Times): “God only knows” how Washington is going to get control of its finances. Unlikely as it seems, there may have been more feckless...
View ArticleMore sucker punch Michigan video
Steven Crowder released this “unedited” video yesterday of the Michigan union protests that resulted in him being sucker punched. I’m not sure the video adds anything new. If you look at the several...
View ArticleNo agreement short of a complete sellout can be reached by year-end
Obama just finished a press statement in which he raised again the urgency of the year-end deadline. Obama wants the tax rates extended just for those making $250k or less, and says since everyone...
View ArticleOn the day of the Mayan apocalypse, John Kerry now in line of succession to...
With the nomination of John Kerry to become secretary of state, our line of succession to the presidency almost makes the North Koreans look good. Make sure nothing is in your mouth but keep a stiff...
View ArticleIt’s still Georgia
Another angle from Jon on the vehicle at the Perimeter Mall in Atlanta/Dunwoody Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2:
View ArticleNuts and Smuts Week at College Insurrection
Nutty never sleeps on campus: U. Penn Prof. Adolph Reed, Jr. “places a political science veneer on naked racialism” Chicago Teachers Union head uses Sandy Hook tragedy to bash innovative teaching...
View ArticleLegal Insurrection Video of the Year (Reader Poll)
It’s getting towards that time of the year when we start selecting the Best Of. 2012 was the first year in which we started focusing on videos, thanks in large part to Anne joining us in June. A...
View Article“You get nothing, I get that for free.”
Could Republican handling of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations be any worse? We suffered the embarrassment of a Plan B which sacrificed the one principle on which we have stood strong for absolutely...
View ArticleMoving from an Emboldened Left in 2012 to a Legal Insurrection in 2013
The 2012 word of the year ought to be “emboldened,” in reference to the radical left, the anti-freedom elements of our society: the union operatives, naive but militant Occupy, radical...
View ArticleSaturday Night Card Game (I could not accuse Salon.com of tokenism, even if I...
In one of the most snide and offensive columns written this year in The NY Times, University of Pennsylvania Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed, Jr. called Tim Scott and other Republicans who...
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