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August 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 4 Comments

Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 8 Comments

I haven't posted about Count Frankula in a while.  Frank Rich's latest column, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, is stuffed full of Rich's usual "people who don't agree with me are crazy and dangerous" filling.Frank's point apparently is that opposition to the Cordoba mosque and Islamic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 3 Comments

Mission accomplished.  We're just like Europe, at least in terms of Gross Domestic Product per person (emphasis mine):For quite some time, the US and the leading EU countries have been fairly comparable in terms of output per hour worked. The US has had higher output per person...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 1 Comment

Soon after the Nevada Republican Senate primary, in which Sharron Angle was a surprise winner, Harry Reid announced that he would not be available to debate Angle for several months because he was too busy.  Here is a report from a local news station from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I will not use that word even to talk about the word.  I will not say the word even in condemning people who call other people the word.  I also will hesitate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 1 Comment

In a story today at Politico, Harry Reid's strategy: Winning ugly, Reid makes one of his favorite points in responding to Sharron Angle's assertions that Reid bears at least some responsibility for the economic decline in Nevada:Reid contends that if Angle attacks him on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 20 Comments

I was on record, before the Cordoba mosque and Islamic Center became a national story after Obama weighed in, that the organizers should have picked a different location, because the location was bound to result in the center being a target of radical Islamists for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 14 Comments

The Democratic National Committee released an advertisement, posted on the DNC's "Rapid Response" YouTube Channel, mocking George W. Bush.  The ad was laughable, and much derided.Here is how it appeared in my post earlier today, Extremely Effective DNC Ad:Now the DNC has pulled the video...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 9 Comments

The latest release by the Rapid Response team at the Democratic National Committee will persuade everyone who, since January 2009, has been living on Mars, in a diving bell at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, on a respirator while in a deep coma, or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 2 Comments

In mid-June, when Obama went on television to announce that he would "inform" BP how much it had to contribute to a compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill, I predicted that the fund -- despite the grandstanding -- would not put much money in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 1 Comment

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 21 Comments

Amanda Terkel, one of the lead writers at Think Progress, is exasperated that the "right-wing" has convinced the "media" that Obama's religion is open to question (emphasis mine):While journalists and pundits on cable news today did acknowledge the “media” have had a role to play,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 0 Comments

From The Telegraph, Neuroscientist Paralyzed By Love:Matt Frerking, 39, from Portland, Oregon, is left immobile if he even has a romantic thought or sees others showing displays of affection...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 3 Comments

Around the time of the ruling in U.S. v. Arizona, I received several e-mails and comments from readers wondering why the District Court had jurisdiction, in light of Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution (emphasis mine):...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 4 Comments

Instead, use the terms:"Nearly Worthless AP" or "Almost Worthless AP"Because AP is not literally Worthless.  Hell, even Newsweek sold for a buck.For consistency of message, here is a succinct summary of President Obama’s position on AP:Obama has said he believes AP has the right to publish as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 6 Comments

I refuse to be drawn deeper into the Ground Zero Mosque - Obama Is A Secret Muslim threads at Memeorandum.I have much more important things to do.  Like defend the history of corruption in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations against those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 7 Comments

From Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning pollster which is the new pollster for DailyKos: -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2010 5 Comments

Spamming in comments has become a problem. It takes time, since the spammer has to have one of the required i.d.'s, has to fill in the form, and then the code to submit.Nonetheless, every day I have to delete at least several spam comments from...

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