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Elizabeth Warren “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook mystery solved

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-17 11:55:28
Remember the non-parody story about Elizabeth Warren citing her cousin’s partial editing of the early 1980s Pow Wow Chow cookbook as evidence of Warren’s Native American ancestry? I could not figure out how Warren found that obscure text.  Now we know, she submitted recipes to it, identifying herself as Cherokee.  I wonder whey she didn’t [...]Similar News >>

Counter Attack

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-16 22:38:58
From the Susan B. Anthony List: And Milton Wolf:Similar News >>

Boston Globe buries correction of Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Cherokee claim

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-16 17:18:55
On April 30, 2012, The Boston Globe broke the story that Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) had located information about a marriage license showing that Elizabeth’s great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees: A record unearthed Monday shows that US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in [...]Similar News >>

And this is the thanks they get

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-14 08:47:25
for all they’ve done for you?  You better hope the watchman doesn’t see this. From reader stevewhitemd: I saw this truck while driving to work earlier this week. I was stopped at the light, honest. Took the photos with my iPhone so the quality isn’t the best. The location is Frankfort, Illinois, in Will County [...]Similar News >>

“In Hol.lywood a hero, In the Heartland a zero”

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-14 01:45:10
A prediction of limerickal justice in the comments at HuffPo (h/t friend of LI blog Huff-Watch): His conflict resolved, his evolution complete. Thanks for the check it’ll help him compete. But what of the election? The forecast is re.je.ction. Short term gain, long term de.fe.at! And another: How bout our Preezy, has a really big stick! Picked [...]Similar News >>

Bad news for Obama, Michigan in play

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-13 00:26:02
Barack Obama crushed John McCain in Michigan in 2008, 57.33%-40.89%. Obama must win Michigan in 2012, it’s part of every scenario for him to get to 270: Yet a poll just released in the Detroit News shows Obama up by only 5 points over Romney, via The Hill: President Obama is leading Mitt Romney by 5 percentage-points [...]Similar News >>

Saturday Night Card Game (Blacklist gets blacklisted)

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-13 00:23:42
Via The Daily Mail (Britain): Police chiefs have banned the word ‘blacklist’ over fears it is racist. They have also struck out its opposite – ‘whitelist’ – which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts. Scotland Yard employees have been told to use ‘red’ and ‘green’ instead. The move baffled [...]Similar News >>

They say you want an education

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-13 00:21:39
well, you know, we all want to change your world view. Part 2 here.  And remember Hannity’s interview with one of the yutes.Similar News >>

“In Hol.lywood a hero, In the Heartland a zero”

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 23:33:19
A prediction of limerickal justice in the comments at HuffPo (h/t friend of LI blog Huff-Watch): His conflict resolved, his evolution complete. Thanks for the check it’ll help him compete. But what of the election? The forecast is re.je.ction. Short term gain, long term de.fe.at! And another: How bout our Preezy, has a really big stick! Picked [...]Similar News >>

Oh shut up, we’ve got a football to spike here

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 12:25:09
From The Guardian in Britain: Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent was [...]Similar News >>

Why didn’t this movement start

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 12:21:55
oh, say, 29 years ago? I might have marched with you. Another one from Kathy, taken in Harrisonburg, VA:Similar News >>

Indiana Dem Senate candidate runs from Obama on gay marriage

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 11:54:16
If you want a sense of how Obama’s cynical, money-driven gay marriage evolution ploy will play in key states Obama won in 2008, look not only at North Carolina’s vote Tuesday, but also at how fast Joe Donnelly is running away from Obama on the issue: U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly reiterated his position Thursday [...]Similar News >>

WaPo’s Lord of the Lies

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 02:57:57
It started out as a massive 5000-word hit piece on Mitt Romney reminiscent of what The Washington Post did to Rick Perry about a rock on his family hunting ground. WaPo put a reporter (or more) on the case and apparently spared no effort to find something which could make a headline based on events [...]Similar News >>

Genealogist for Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Cherokee claim goes silent, source document shown false

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-12 02:55:27
The claim that Elizabeth Warren was 1/32 Cherokee has been suspect from the start, yet the media repeats the claim as if it were documented. Now the last documentary hope that Warren could prove she is 1/32 Cherokee has been foreclosed by Michael Patrick Leahy writing this afternoon at Breitbart.com: The slender thread upon which Elizabeth Warren’s [...]Similar News >>

Democrats trained to allege Republicans use racially-coded phrases

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-11 12:30:55
Is there any part of the Democratic campaign agenda that is not planned out and contrived? As you know, the deliberate use of the race card to advanced the Democratic Party agenda has been documented here hundreds of times. An article at The Washington Examiner, House Dems trained to make race the issue, once again proves that it [...]Similar News >>

Don’t these people have any shame?

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-11 12:30:46
Who puts a bumper sticker like that one on a vehicle?  Have they no shame? I love your bumper sticker photos and am always on the lookout for ones worthy of your blog. Practically walked into the back of this truck, parked near a craft store in Bellevue, Washington. Decided to take two photos with [...]Similar News >>

Vidal Sassoon, fighter

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-11 12:29:28
Vidal Sassoon died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 84.  Known mostly as a name-brand in hair styling, upon reading of his death I learned a lot more about the man, and wondered why I didn’t know more before. From The Times of Israel: A veteran of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, Sassoon also had [...]Similar News >>

Amateurs

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-11 12:28:37
While studiously avoiding and evading any investigation of Barack Obama’s “youth” (i.e. the period prior to his running for President) or devoting resources to any of the many scandals (selling guns to Mexican drug lords, politicizing along racial lines the Justice Department, etc.) which would have been front page day after day in another administration, [...]Similar News >>

Your mainstream media at work – Romney teased someone in high school in 1965

legalinsurrection.com | William A. Jacobson | 2012-05-11 12:24:19
And not just anyone, someone who was “presumed homosexual.” The Washington Post, fresh off finding a rock in Texas, has dug deep using all the investigative reporting skills of one of the most powerful news organizations in the world, and breathlessly reports that Mitt Romney teased someone in high school in 1965 (h/t @JohnPodhoretz): Mitt [...]Similar News >>