From reader Tom:
I’ve enjoyed your blog for some time now Mr. Jacobson. Born and raised in western and central NY, I’m well aware that you’re something of a “unicorn” in Ithaca! Anyway, I spotted this sticker on a car outside a diner in Latham (Albany). It seems appropriate to have it...
I ran a long string of Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson Videos of the Day recently.
Thanks to reader Scott who just forwarded to me this video of Tony Snow in a duet with Anderson.
Anderson’s comments on Tony’s death in 2008 are here.
Rutherford B. Hayes never had it so good.
His name and image are on the internet.
(image here, more of mine here, even more here)
The advertiser boycott of Rush Limbaugh appears to be cracking, and Rush’s move to Twitter has boycott organizers worried.
Behind the scenes, anecdotal evidence suggests that advertising either never really was impacted at the local level, or to the extent it was it has returned to normal. Via Macsmind:
Today listening to the Rush Limbaugh...
I’ve received a number of e-mails and comments about an Executive Order signed by Obama on Friday, titled National Defenses Resources Preparedness, and what it means.
It appears that this Executive Order is an update of prior Executive Orders signed in 1988 and 1994 which elaborate similar powers in time of war or...
The thousands of rockets fired from Gaza randomly into Israeli towns and cities over the past several years into Israel have caused casualties and death, but these have been kept down by defensive Israeli actions such as warning sirens and bomb shelters.
But the terror of living under random rocketing should not...
From reader Korie:
I saw this bumper sticker in the Democrat stronghold of Scranton, PA and just had to snap a picture of it. Love this one!
It was my cell and that was zoomed. I knew it wouldn’t be close enough for you to post but just w...
Please make more of these sort of arrogant and dismissive speeches.
It helps motivate and bring out the base. Our base:
Update: The Eagle has landed, er, pulled into the driveway, and this low blow on Rutherford B. Hayes has him agitated:
The quote cited by Obama does exist on the Internet, but we would...
So many things had to go wrong for Obamacare to evade a Senate filibuster. Arlen Specter had to switch parties. Al Franken had to pull out a slight victory. And Senator Ted Stevens needed to lose relection just after being convicted of corruption.
If any one of those had not happened, we...
Mitt Romney is waking up to the fact that his highly negative, in some cases vicious, campaign against Newt and Rick will create problems down the road, should Mitt win the nomination.
So Romney’s senior advisors are putting together an outreach strategy:
Mitt Romney, mired in a frustrating slog toward the presidential nomination,...
When Rush Limbaugh sent his now famous “first tweet,” Twitter went wild. It was as if a tweet had flapped its wings in South America c...
As previously posted, it appears that there were sufficient recall petition signatures submitted to hold recall elections as to Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and several Republican state Senators.
One of those state Senators, Pam Galloway,
From frequent photographer Bill who took this photo at his doctor’s parking lot the other day:
Bonus question: What does the blue sticker below the license plate depict?
but not averted.
al-Qaeda’s master plot to install Joe Biden as President and thereby cause the collapse of Western civilization, or at least the last part of Western civilization which still matters, was set in motion:
“The reason for concentrating on...
The U.S. Supreme Court hears argument starting March 26 on various aspects Obamacare, front and center the mandate. A ruling is expected by the end of June.
Purity in opposing mandates is the reason to be of Rick Santorum’s campaign argument: Mitt is tainted due to Romneycare, and Newt is tainted because he was...
