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June 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 13 Comments

There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf.Obama keeps focusing on legal liability:President Obama will use his first Oval Office speech Tuesday night to outline a plan to legally compel BP to create an escrow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2010 11 Comments

One of my daughters is graduating college today. And she has a job! So one less tuition to pay, and she's almost off my payroll. It feels like 5 O'clock, all day: -------------------------------------------- Related Posts: Sunday Morning Dance Party Early Sunday Morning In New York Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 20 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I don't know whether to laugh or cry over this one. The NAACP is upset because a Hallmark talking graduation card uses the term "black ho" in it, as in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 3 Comments

Predictions sometimes do come true. Just not this time.Someone must be very disappointed. You know who you are. I bet you think this post is about you, don't you, don't you? Hispanic Voters' Preferences Unchanged Post-Arizona LawHispanic voters nationwide haven't shifted their congressional voting preferences...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2010 2 Comments

While Bill Halter's failed attempt to unseat Blanche Lincoln understandably has received all the media attention, there is a congressional race in Massachusetts in which labor is trying to unseat a politically incorrect (i.e., not sufficiently liberal) Democratic incumbent.Steve Lynch is a Democrat in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 4 Comments

I originally saw this video linked a while ago at Israellycool.Now that it has gone viral (over 750,000 YouTube views as of this writing), with further links by Jeffrey Goldberg and an explanation of what it all means at The NY Review of Books (slow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 10 Comments

"Elections have consequences.""Democracy is messy""Every vote counts, so count every vote.""If we ignore votes, we ignore democracy.""Yes we can."Any other cliches we can throw at the Democrats who want to negate the Historic nomination of Alvine Greene and disenfranchise voters, like they tried to do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 9 Comments

I hope this is not true, but nothing would surprise me when it comes to Obama and the Middle East, Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week:THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 7 Comments

I've found it. The 2010 race about which I can get motivated the way I was motivated by Scott Brown v. Martha Coakley.There are plenty of choices out there, and I'll likely add more to my focus, but I've found The Race.It's not the one...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 14 Comments

I would like to pronounce the left-wing mockery of Sarah Palin's supposed breast enlargement surgery as the final nail in the coffin of liberal feminism.But there are no nails left.They all have been used in prior liberal misogyny directed at Sarah Palin.Sarah Palin killed and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 6 Comments

Greg Sargent of The Plum Line blog now blogs under the banner of The Washington Post, a recognition of his status as one of the premier, and normally more reasonable, left-wing bloggers.Yet it appears that Sargent, while far less vitriolic than many of his compatriots,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 5 Comments

In 2006 Richard Cohen of The Washington Post wrote a column arguing "[t]he greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake."The argument, that Israel should not have been created as a Jewish state because the Muslim...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 0 Comments

If recent polling is accurate, Richard Blumenthal still has a commanding lead in the Connecticut Senate race despite the controversy over his false statements over the years that he served in Vietnam.But the story has legs, more so than Mark Kirk's false statements and/or misstatements...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 5 Comments

There is something deeply unsettling about Obama's conduct of his presidency, having nothing to do with birthplace, race or religion.Dorothy Rabinowitz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says what has been on so many of our minds, The Alien in the White House:For it was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 5 Comments

Name a Democratic candidate in this year's election cycle who is generating excitement and buzz, as opposed to hanging on for dear life, hiding from the masses, or hoping SEIU money will save the day.--------------------------------------------Related Post:Arkansas Primary Result in 28 CharactersFollow me on Twitter and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 9 Comments

So what she said was no big deal.That apparently is John Cole's point in You Got Played, because in the full video which was just released Thomas was nice to the Jewish students:Now that Helen Hitler Thomas has been forcibly retired, more video of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 1 Comment

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2010 17 Comments

Remember Joe Biden's comment that hostile forces would test Obama in his first six months?Well, whatever tests have come before, the big test is about to take place, as Russia, Iran and Turkey are uniting to break American influence in the greater Middle East and...

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