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December 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 12 Comments

We have known for decades that Palestinian leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths, a message of relative restraint to the West and a message of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli agitation at home. Hamas is more honest than the Palestinian Authority, as it has a unified...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 11 Comments

This is courage week for Canada.  First, a very strong statement of support for Israel at the U.N. Now, unlike Stevie Wonder, who cancelled a pro-Israel concert under mild pressure from the U.N. and anti-Israel groups, Alanis Morissette, the Canadian singer, has arrived in Israel for a concert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 60 Comments

But I'm already sizing up Operation Counterweight Senate races for 2014. Don't look back is my motto. Roll Call has a list of Senate races and assessments.   Do any of them have serious primary challengers?  Lindsay Graham seems like he could be vulnerable in theory, but I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 45 Comments

It's hard to know whether to cheer their disappointment or commiserate. My natural inclination is to tell them to S*** *** **** ** considering that they have subjected us to four more years. From Michael Goodwin, Obama 2: Even more reckless: People weren’t paying attention. Those are the people now...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 17 Comments

The United States nominally opposed the General Assembly Resolution granting nonmember state status to "Palestine." In the short run, it changes nothing on the ground, but it does embolden the Palestinians to hold out for everything, including  a reversion to the 1949 Armistice borders, commonly and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 6 Comments

from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Hope. Arkansas. Yet if this shop owner is any indication, it's a world away from the days of the Man from Hope. From reader MK Reagan, in August: Eureka Springs, AR is kind of a hippie town, but these T shirts were prominently...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 21 Comments

Some advice for congressional Republicans, via Right Scoop (h/t Patricia), start at the 4:00 mark: Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>At the Reagan Forum, an hour's worth of history (jump to 19:50 on how things looked in 1974 and why we do not now need...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 7 Comments

Don't let the recent anti-government protests fool you. The Islamists still are able to turn out large crowds in the New Egypt, as happened today in Cair0 where hundreds of thousands (how many hundreds varies from news report to news report) turned out in support of President Morsi and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 39 Comments

The Founding Fathers owned slaves.  We knew that, didn't we? Slavery was an institution in many places in the world, including the newly formed United States.  It took a generation and a civil war to end it here, long before it was ended elsewhere. That fact is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 79 Comments

Grover Norquist is predicting a second, even larger Tea Party wave, via Breibart.com (h/t Instapundit): "We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave and that is because while 'spend too much' brought the Tea Party into existence, we're...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 11 Comments

Never let a good Defense Authorizatio bill go to waste. Two Democratic Senators (Whitehouse and Franken) together with socialist Bernie Sanders have attached co-sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill which would expand so-called "disparate impact" claims under Title VI.  (added) The amendment was submitted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 1 Comment

The Culture Harvard approves BDSM club When it comes to campus sexual assault charges, being not guilty is not good enough Berkeley Prof — “babies may indeed become the new Title IX frontier” Stanford hosts International Socialist Union meeting The hated 4% on campus CA University Gives “Higher Education” a New...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 0 Comments

or me. From frequent photographer Ulises, back in September: He was our last hope in MD...

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