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June 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 86 Comments

When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right. Forget...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on June 16, 2012 7 Comments

After she handled her fellow Republican candidates at the Utah convention back in April, Mia Love is receiving a substantial boost from her party to aide her attempt to oust Democrat Congressman Jim Matheson in the newly created 4th Congressional District. Many Republicans have been vocal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 16 Comments

I think this is one of those goose/gander things. Via Roll Call: With less than four and a half months until Election Day, Senate Republicans are shutting off the bipartisan spigot when it comes to confirming President Barack Obama’s nominees to the nation’s top courts and will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 15 Comments

I'm still having a lot of trouble figuring out the Maine Senate race, and whether there's anything we can do to salvage the seat in a three-way race with the former Governor running as an independent apparently in the lead. Via Pine Tree Politics: The message from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 16 Comments

I'm not there this weekend, but at least we have video! ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 18 Comments

From a reader: Took this photo on my way to work this morning -- in Saratoga, California, a suburb of Silicon Valley, no less! It probably doesn't mean California is in play, but I think it's an indicator of Obama's diminishing popularity here. I thought LI...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 15 Comments

Not the destruction in September 2007 of the nuke facility likely being built with the help of the Norks. Via Jerusalem Post, a story I had not heard before, Syria’s chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s. It was July 2007...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 107 Comments

Who asked a question. And the MSM is going wild on Twitter. Here's the offense: The "offender" was Neil Munro from The Daily Caller. Updates: NBC has now given reporter/heckler more coverage than Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal.— Dan Curry (@dancurry) June 15, 2012 Neil Munro is now #1 trend on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 15 Comments

Last night Patterico reminded us Aaron Walker Still Silent: Outlaw judge Cornelius Vaughey’s ruling remains in effect. Aaron cannot truthfully blog about public figure Brett Kimberlin without violating a judge’s blatantly unconstitutional prior restraint of his speech. Just thought I’d mention that. Since it’s still true. While Walker...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 37 Comments

Rick Santorum had a Google problem. And so does Elizabeth Warren, although of a different nature. Elizabeth Warren wants her message to be about evil factory owners who live off of others, and the middle class which is being"hammered" (her new favorite word). Whatever her messaging intends to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 105 Comments

So much for the rule of law.  This guy wants reelection, so to hell with the Congress. Via Associated Press: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 7 Comments

From reader Peggy: For Your Collection. Spotted in the parking lot of a veterinary specialists' office building in North Dallas. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 32 Comments

Rhode Island is being crushed by pension debt, our cities are suffocating, we're driving businesses away with regulatory minutiae, and we're hemorrhaging young people.  Oh, and we just threw away up to $75 million on a video game company run by a former baseball player. So...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 5 Comments

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) earned a special place in the annals of odious Senatorial speeches when, on the eve of the Obamacare vote in the Senate in December 2009, he invoked Kristallnacht and lynchings when speaking of opponents of Obamacare: History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2012 22 Comments

There are times it's good just to be a spectator. I'm not going to try to sort this out, I'll just note that the "Stop Rush" movement has turned on one of its most prized Twitter activists, or that activist has turned on it, depending who...

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