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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 01, 2013 10 Comments
Private First Class Bradley Manning, the soldier responsible for leaking over 700,000 documents containing classified information to Wikileaks, will finally face military trial this week at Fort Meade, Maryland.  Colonel Denise Lind will ultimately decide the soldier’s case. From Reuters: Manning, an intelligence analyst, was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2013 21 Comments
I’ve been accumulating these links, but there has been so much race-card playing, I haven’t had time to post the videos below. Given it’s a slow news holiday weekend, now seems as good a time as any to post them: Chris Matthews — Only Whites can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 9 Comments
Amidst all the scandals exposed these past two weeks, one is being ignored by the mainstream media and most of the conservative media as well — the actions of the Department of Justice and Department of Education to force colleges and universities to impose anti-free speech codes....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2013 46 Comments
South Carolina NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wisconsin Supreme Court, Balance of Power, Future of Key Issues at Stake in Wisconsin Court Race. Forget #SC01 #SC1 This is the race that matters tonight hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/… — Julian Stolz (@TheStolzReport) April 3, 2013 Update: YESSSSSSS!!!!!!! Do you remember Justice Roggensack? Harken...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 20, 2013 3 Comments
The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever complicated personal themes may have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2012 4 Comments
With two weeks until Election Day, Operation Counterweight in Upstate New York is approaching its home stretch. Below is an update for the 19th district, where Chris Gibson faces Julian Schreibman. While Gibson is doing well in this Democratic district, Roll Call still rates it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2012 4 Comments
Each day this week we will focus on one of the Upstate New York races included in Operation Counterweight.  As mentioned before, Upstate NY is critical to holding the House, as several seats were gained by Republicans in an otherwise blue state in 2010.  There...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 1 Comment
This is an update on the Upstate New York races covered last month as part of Operation Counterweight, and as before was prepared by a Cornell undergraduate student who prefers to remain anonymous. Included at the bottom of each race update are the newest Cook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2012 5 Comments
It may seem counter-intuitive, but Upstate New York (the NY flyover country) is a key to holding the House, and will form a core of Operation Counterweight.  In 2010, Republicans picked up several seats upstate; redistricting has caused the loss of one upstate seat (and...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 27, 2012 31 Comments
David Friedman, the son of that Friedman, is one of my favorite bloggers. He isn’t terribly hard to read and he doesn’t update daily, but – when he writes – it is worth the wait. Take, for example, his most recent post:  A while back...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2010 10 Comments
Defenders of WikiLeaks have portrayed Bradley Manning and Julian Assange as heroes who only want transparency, and who did no real harm. In fact, WikiLeaks has put lives at risk and damaged international attempts to rid Zimbabwe of the Mugabe regime.  And beyond that, Wikileaks has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 7 Comments
Heroes of the American Left, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, have destroyed the best hope for ridding Zimbabwe of madman Robert Mugabe by releasing U.S. State Department cables of communications  between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the leading opponent of Mugabe, and U.S. and E.U. officials,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2010 6 Comments
This is rich.  Julian Assange’s lawyers are complaining that details of Assange’s alleged sexual assault have been leaked: Incriminating police files were published in the British newspaper that has used him as its source for hundreds of leaked US embassy cables. In a move that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2010 39 Comments
Via ABC News: The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email. Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2010 17 Comments
If there were any doubt that WikiLeaks is not about open government, but giving aid and comfort to enemies of the U.S., then the latest release of a State Department document listing facilities vital to U.S. security ends any doubt.  The document is described by the...
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