I said, “Hi.” She said, “Yeah, I guess I am.”
The “Hi” in the title should clue you in, this is my welcome post. I’m David, the newest blogger at Legal Insurrection. For those who don’t know me, I used to blog as Soccer Dad. After I retired from...
View ArticleDavid Gerstman aka @Soccerdhg joins Legal Insurrection
If you were up at 5:44 a.m. Eastern this morning (I wasn’t) you would have been there at the very moment when David Gerstman’s first post at Legal Insurrection went live, I said, “Hi.” She said, “Yeah,...
View ArticleBranco Cartoon – Frankenquester
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View ArticleSequester — already the biggest lie of 2013
On the very short drive to work this morning, I heard an interview on local AM 870 radio with the Tompkins County town administrator. The radio host kept trying to scare everyone about the Sequester...
View ArticleBritish MP George Galloway storms out of debate when finds out opponent is...
George Galloway is the face the British left’s desire to destroy Israel, as ugly as it gets. As Christopher Hitchens put it, George Galloway Is Gruesome, Not Gorgeous. Galloway is a member of the...
View ArticleElizabethWarrenWiki.org nominated for #BlogBash award
It’s hard to believe it’s only been about three weeks since we launched ElizabethWarrenWiki.org. The goal was, and remains, to bring together in one place the wealth of research conducted during the...
View ArticleOh, Florida
It’s stuff like this, Rick Scott’s Big Reversal: Governor Rick Scott expressed his support this afternoon for expansion of Florida’s Medicaid program, describing the decision as a choice between...
View ArticleLike I said
this morning, Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013. Rush says it this way, For the First Time in My Life, I Am Ashamed of My Country:
View ArticleRepublican Paul McKinley: “The Chicago Machine is panicking”
Robin Kelly, one of the leading Democrats running in the congressional special election primary to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., is under fire this week after it was revealed that an internal...
View ArticleQuoting Rick Perry
From Ben: On the left coast this little cultural tit for tat has been developing for a couple years. First there was So Cal. Meaning Southern California. As in, that’s So Cal. Then Nor Cal for...
View ArticleHow I stopped worrying and learned to love the sequester
A recent Washington Post editorial, The blame game over sequestration concludes: Meanwhile, Mr. Obama seems content to warn of dire cutbacks in everything from naval operations to firefighters and to...
View ArticleIt’s impossible to guess where The New York Times now finds racism
Wow. Just…wow: For decades, hundreds of college players have gathered each year at the N.F.L.’s scouting combine, where their strength is tested, their speed is timed and, in a test to measure their...
View ArticleMideast Media Sampler 02/22/2013
WAJ Note — As mentioned yesterday, David produces an almost daily Mideast Media Sampler newsletter, which we will be running at LI. It is a great way to keep up with media reports about the Middle...
View ArticleUpdate: Hating Breitbart returns in May 17 dvd release, screening in NYC...
There is good news for those of you who were unable to see Andrew Marcus’s excellent Hating Breitbart documentary, released late last year. It has just been announced that the movie will be released in...
View ArticleBanking Analyst: “Elizabeth Warren’s Preposterous Grandstanding”
Thomas K. Brown, a banking industry analyst and investor, writing at BankStocks.com, makes a point similar to what I made in my post, Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery, that Warren’s Banking...
View ArticleCoulter on Stossel shows foolishness of Fordham’s cancellation
Ann Coulter appeared on the John Stossel show, and the video is getting a lot of attention. There was a vigorous back and forth on a variety of issues. The students in the audience were libertarian,...
View ArticlePurim in Tel Aviv before the War
Purim starts Saturday night. Israel Matzav posted this great movie of Purim in Tel Aviv in 1932-34: The Book of Esther is particularly appropriate now.
View ArticleFriday Night Open
I’m going to torture you now. Because I can. (I left autorun off because I have some small level of mercy.) Update: Woodward basically calls Obama a liar who moved goal posts...
View ArticleMahatma Gundhi Week at College Insurrection
What would Mahatma say about college campuses today? From my cold, dead hands: Cornell Student: Gandhi Championed Right to Bear Arms Stanford Student: Colleges Should Allow Concealed Carry U. Iowa...
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