Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion


National politics and national news events from a conservative's viewpoint.

Author: William A. Jacobson is Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell University Law School, trains new arbitrators for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and he is a contributing columnist for Registered Rep. magazine.

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  • Hacked E-mails Skeptic No More

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  • Another Warning on Turkey's Islamist Slide

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  • Why Are Democrats Holding Louisiana Hostage?

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    Today is just filled with wonderment at the unexpected nature of being. From the "I didn't see this coming" department:Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the…

  • Diversity for Thee, But Not for We

    Great post by Michelle Malkin pointing out that MSNBC, whose commentators routinely lash out at conservatives and Republicans as being all-white, is in fact all white:--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

  • Worst Legislation Since The Great Depression

    In my post the other day, Berkeley Students Should Be Protesting Obamacare, I made the point that the Berkeley student protesters were too stupid to realize that their future was being sold out from under…

  • Executing Paralyzed Hasan "Barbaric"

    It is reported that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is paralyzed. So you knew this was coming:How barbaric that the military will seek to kill a man with no sensation in his body from…

  • Somebody Had A Bad Day

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