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March 2009

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2009 0 Comments

"J Street" is a new web-based group which promises to promote "peace" in the Middle East. J Street has garnered much attention, and a Memeorandum thread, based on an article in Jewish Week which asks "What is [it] about J Street, the pro-peace process lobby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2009 0 Comments

Ann Althouse is marrying one of the commenters on her blog. But she vehemently denies that her blog serves as one big dating service, not that there would be anything wrong with that.So what does the Blogospheric Neologian call this?Blogcest--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2009 4 Comments

Andrew Breitbart's post, Online activists on the right, unite!, has called attention to a problem almost every conservative blogger experiences: Trolls who plant inflammatory comments to make the blog appear racist or sexist or some other "ist" or who post such long comments that they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 1 Comment

The difficulties facing The New York Times are well documented. Falling circulation, revenues and credibility; rising costs, incredulity, and debt. But it looks like the Times has hit upon a strategy for survival: DEATH.The death strategy has not been announced, but is evident on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 1 Comment

During the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama attempted to prove intentions to keep us safe by insisting that he, unlike the Bush administration, would send troops into Pakistan without Pakistani approval:In a strikingly bold speech about terrorism Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Sen....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 4 Comments

The Washington Post story, titled “Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots,” about how the interrogation of Abu Zubaida did not prevent a single terrorist attack, is old news. The story ran this morning, which is like so last century in the blogosphere. But the Post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments

UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it's not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 1 Comment

When we think of the First Amendment to the Constitution, we think of the freedoms of religion, speech and the press. Occasionally, someone will mention the right to peaceably assemble. But for most people, the discussion ends there. Can you name which right guaranteed by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments

The JournoList has evoked much commentary. But a bigger question is being missed. What lurks beneath the outward gentility and civility of the most enlightened liberal bloggers and columnists?Apparently it is not pretty. Some people expressed surprise at the ugly tone of the thread released...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 0 Comments

Has Obamamania reached its limit, asks this Yahoo blog entry:This week alone, the president was on "60 Minutes," held a prime-time press conference (networks reluctantly bumped "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" to make room for it), and answered viewer questions at his first-ever...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 1 Comment

The JournoList started by Ezra Klein as a place where liberal media elites could share ideas (i.e., make sure they had their stories straight) has been exposed as a repository of liberal elite media trash talk. But it gets worse. Klein took credit for designating...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 0 Comments

David Brooks is back on the Obama ranch, having been lassoed by White House officials when he briefly strayed. Brook's latest puff piece is The Winnable War. You don't need to read it. I'll give you the punch line, which is a shocka:BUSH BAD, OBAMA...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment

The JournoList was revealed by Politico. The founder of the JournoList, Ezra Klein, explained the purpose as follows (emphasis mine): Journolist is meant to serve a very specific purpose that's actually related to my experience building this blog. The work of this site has always been...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 6 Comments

Here is my first Tweet, based on the disclosure at Slate (via Instapundit) of the liberal JournoList's vicious and repeated attacks on the Jew Marty Peretz, which means (using the logic of the Ezra Klein in his vicious smear of Ann Althouse):Follow me on Twitter----------------------------------------------------UPDATE:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment

Obama's teleprompter has instigated a fight between Mr. Nasty and President O'Nasty. It started with a scripted dig by Obama at Simon Cowell on the Jay Leno show, to which Cowell responded in kind:When the historians of tomorrow take out their quill pens and attempt...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments

It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 0 Comments

Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican Congressman from Minnesota, has gotten into the heads of the left-wing blogosphere. Yesterday was the completely phony attack on Bachmann's "armed and dangerous" comment, in which her metaphor for outrage was twisted into a supposed call to arms.Today brings another...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 4 Comments

I have been waiting for this day, when one of the demonized executives at a bank or insurance company would tell Congress to "take this job and shove it." The person singing this song today is Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American...

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