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August 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 39 Comments

Muslim Brotherhood member President Mohamed Morsi has sacked the senior Egyptian military command, the primary secular counterweight to Islamist fundamentalist control of Egypt. As reported by The Times of Israel: Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi fired Defense Minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff Sami Anan on Sunday afternoon,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 72 Comments

The Choice Election. That seems to be the consensus emerging about how the Ryan pick changes the race. Democrats claim to be ecstatic about it -- it seems to me they are trying much too hard to convince themselves and demoralize us.  There are few if any...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 17 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi runs ACORN-successor Demos, which has promoted her mother's political ambitions for years. No surprise when Demos filed suit in May against Massachusetts, and then the Democrats who run the state promptly capitulated and agreed to unprecedented efforts to register welfare...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2012 13 Comments

From frequent photographer Bill: Maybe there is "hope"! St. Petersburg, Florida. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 58 Comments

More motivated than ever. It might have been that way regardless of the Veep pick, but the immediate attempt by the mainstream media and liberal magazines and newspapers to Palinize Paul Ryan brought back bitter memories of the type which motivated me for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 112 Comments

Whether the pick of Paul Ryan for Veep was a good pick or a bad pick or something in between is irrelevant at this point. Ryan was the pick. The left-wing writers and bloggers are all over it, portraying the pick as extremist and a cave to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 59 Comments

The choice of Paul Ryan, and the reaction, finally got me off the donation sideline. I just donated to the Romney-Ryan campaign.  And in case you were wondering, maxed out. For the first time in my adult life I was proud to do so. It's not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 129 Comments

It's official, it's going to be Paul Ryan. The Romney Veep App made the announcement earlier this morning, and every news source is reporting it. The decision was made on August 1. The left already is going crazy, but that would have happened regardless of who the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 1 Comment

until November 7, and only if. From reader and frequent photographer Scott: Greetings once again from Raleigh, NC. I spotted this at a stoplight early this afternoon headed to a weekly appointment with my chiropractor who, by the way, insists that "he & his wife did build that"...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 39 Comments

Romney will announce the Veep pick Saturday morning at 9 a.m. We'll have coverage here. The Weekly Standard is calling it for Paul Ryan, which means it's either Paul Ryan or the Romney campaign ran a really good feint. NRO is reporting the same: Take note, veep watchers: Earlier...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 17 Comments

From a reader: Sorry to bother you, Professor, but I got an e-mail from a Wisconsin Recall Fund (which I don’t remember donating to, but they probably bought my e-mail from a list since I made several donations to Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefish), asking for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 12 Comments

No one gets rich on his own. No one. In Obama's case, Tony built it. Romney helped a couple buy house? Big deal, so did Tony Rezko nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/…— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 10, 2012 ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 38 Comments

The lawsuit by Demos (an ACORN successor), which resulted in Massachusetts voluntarily taking the unprecedented step of mailing registration forms to almost 500,000 welfare recipients and other steps in welfare offices not required by law, is looking more and more like a pro-Elizabeth Warren set-up. The...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 10, 2012 10 Comments

If you were to look to the masses to see what stereotypes persist about different states, analyzing the auto-completes that come up in google searches is certainly a creative way to start. The blog No Upside mapped the auto-completes for each state, with some amusing conclusions. Renee DiResta,...

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