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December 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2011 32 Comments

How ironic would it be if a month-long onslaught by conservative media and attack ads run against Newt non-stop by a Mitt Romney supporting SuperPAC resulted in Ron Paul winning the Iowa caucuses?  Paul also is running attack ads, but without the rest of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2011 4 Comments

That was the subject line in the e-mail from Aaron Worthing, who blogs at Allergic to Bull , who sent this photo: It was perfect, almost perfect. A bumper sticker picture with a hilarious contradiction. First they say "universal healthcare is pro-life" and then they say the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 18 Comments

Also known as Dear Leader and Supreme Leader, died according to North Korean state television. via CBS/AP: Kim's death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 13 Comments

Mitt Romney has been doubling and tripling down on the strategy of crazy attempting to portray Newt as mentally unfit for office. Part of that strategy is to characterize Newt as "zany." Romney stood by the accusation this morning on Fox News Sunday. But that's not how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 15 Comments

Interesting stuff: Good neutral article about the 10 factors which could sink Newt in Iowa.  One of them was "Fox News Talkers."  I guess I wasn't the only one who noticed.  Coulter was on Hannity, O'Reilly, and apparently Red Eye singing the same Newt's crazy tune. ...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 18, 2011 42 Comments

I don't care for the phrase “public intellectual,” particularly when paired with “political thinker.” It tends to reference the most polemic or controversial people, skeptics of common sense. For instance, there are lots of great thinkers who have never ascended to notoriety the way Noam Chomsky...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 7 Comments

The good news?  The Islamists did not do significantly better than in the first round of elections. The bad news? The Islamists did not do significantly worse than in the first round of elections. They're still running at about 70%: The Muslim Brotherhood party secured 39 percent of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 48 Comments

I guess I'm upsetting some people with my vigorous posts regarding Newt. Robert Stacy McCain says I've "hopped aboard the Gingrich bandwagon and [am] savagely lashing Newt’s critics."  Actually, the bandwagon jumped on me, because my endorsement predated Newt's surge, if only by a few days. John Sexton...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 7 Comments

... Glenn Beck regains his sanity." That was the subject line in the e-mail from Linda attaching this photo taken outside the Sportsman's Grill in Franklin, TN: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 9 Comments

The more Obama pushes class warfare, the more people reject class warfare.  That's certainly not what I expected. It's the counter-indicator effect.  If he's for it, the opposite will happen.  Perhaps he should announce an Unemployment Plan instead of a Jobs Plan. It's another one of those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 29 Comments

Take one Bibi a Day and you will feel better. The Prime Minister of the Jewish State doesn't seem to feel the need to stick to Happy Generic Holiday which happens to arrive in late December every year and is not the one invented in the 1960s. It's a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 47 Comments

As I pointed out the other day, National Review demeaned itself and its many talented writers by going overboard in its attempt to demonize Newt Gingrich, including a cover which should live in conservative infamy. Newt as crazy outer-space martian is what passes for analysis at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 17 Comments

The first snowfall in Ithaca so far this year. Gingrich poses an asymmetrical threat to Obama.  Isn't that how you fight an opponent which is better funded and better organized? All those commentators at The Washington Examiner who hate Newt because he was a "lobbyist" in reality if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 15 Comments

I'm just getting this feeling: A life of perpetual opposition....

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