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June 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 0 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is one of the most polarizing Senators. His favorite form of argument is reduced to the following: "You are bad, we are good."If you were from Rhode Island, as I am, you would understand that this has been Whitehouse's political character long...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 5 Comments

First it was Dale Peterson firing off a shotgun. Then Pamela Gorman a machine gun. Great advertisements, both. Home runs.Caution. If you move to tank warfare, you better know what you are doing.If not, history will not be kind.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 5 Comments

The narcissistic mainstream media and its supporters in the left-wing blogosphere have been toeing the Harry Reid campaign line that Sharron Angle has been "hiding" from the press.What they really meant was that Sharron Angle didn't grant them an interview. She appeared on plenty of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2010 4 Comments

There is a question no one has asked so far. What did Elena Kagan mean when she wrote, in a prior confirmation hearing when she was nominated for Solicitor General:"There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage."This statement, which seems pretty clear to me...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 4 Comments

Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, has accused Research 2000 of defrauding Daily Kos in conducting research polling.The accusation is about as inflammatory as one can get. For professional pollsters, a reputation for fairness and accuracy is everything.The damage to Research 2000 will be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 15 Comments

... is Andrew Sullivan's derisive explanation for the success of female Republican candidates, like Sarah Palin and "clone" Pamela Gorman.Anywhere else that would be called sexist (and also a feature, not a bug).You can support Pamela Gorman here, just to drive them crazy.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqnjzONrPiA]Update: Will Political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 6 Comments

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Florida against Charlie Crist and the Crist campaign seeking the return of donations made to Crist while he was running as a Republican. The attorney in the lawsuit, Thomas Grady, was a former regional chair for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 8 Comments

(Please try not to fall asleep while reading this post.)There is something profoundly depressing about the nomination of Elena Kagan.Kagan has an impressive resume. But ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2010 7 Comments

We all know how carefully the Obama administration touts the mythical "jobs created or saved" (or is it "saved or created"?).We also know how many jobs have been lost since the Stimulus Plan passed (well over 2 million, even including expansion of government jobs).But,is anyone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2010 4 Comments

As I posted before, Harry Reid's campaign is attempting to create the appearance of a groundswell of opposition to Sharron Angle by staging purportedly independent protests against Angle's alleged plan to eliminate social security (Angle's actual position is here).The protests are organized by the Nevada...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 6 Comments

...[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO13_tJ6x44]Update: A reader e-mailed me as follows:While Biden’s remark demonstrates the hubris of the Governing Class, Obama’s Ex-Im Bank Board takes the food off their tables.See: http://www.jsonline.com/business/97225544.htmlWherein, for POLITICAL and IDEOLOGICAL reasons alone, a Milwaukee success story may lose 1,000 employees AND a $600++ million...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 8 Comments

Gen. Stanley McChrystal was relieved of command in Afghanistan after an article in Rolling Stone magazine.The article widely was described as evidencing McChrystal's insubordination by criticizing the political leadership, but as I demonstrated, such explanation did not make a lot of sense. There were almost...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 8 Comments

Last week I posted about the Bumper Sticker of Change, which I saw while walking in Rhode Island.I returned today to Ithaca:-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 17 Comments

Kelly Steele is Harry Reid's campaign spokesman and one of the chief strategists.According to reports, Steele is credited with taking down Sue Lowden, and is in charge of the early efforts to paint Sharron Angle as an extremist and crazy:And that's where Steele factors in--to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2010 1 Comment

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Last week I featured a "Breaking News" video of NY Freedom Party leader Charles Barron, a New York City councilman, insisting that attempts to ban the blowing of Vuvuzelas...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2010 12 Comments

The latest meme being pushed is that Sarah Palin somehow, someway, compared Obama to Hitler. Think Progress started it off with:Palin encourages followers to read column warning that the BP escrow fund could lead to a Nazi-like dictatorshipGreg Sargent at The Washington Post promptly took...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2010 6 Comments

A tweet from Ed Driscoll linked to this photo of an IBM 350 5 Megabyte data storage unit, circa 1956, part of a system which leased for $3200 per month:Here is what a 5 Gigabyte flash drive looks like now, costing about $50:Identifiable jobs were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2010 4 Comments

...Derived from the Yiddish Kozebupkes: Bupkis(History of L'Affaire Weigel here, and of the secretive JournoList here)--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

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