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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2012 19 Comments
Remember that next Tuesday is the recall election in Wisconsin. A good Marquette poll yesterday deflated hopes on the left that the recall race was tightening.  But Walker is not taking any chances, releasing this ad against Barrett: More devastating news for the recall effort is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 25 Comments
There already are efforts to bus supporters of the recall to the polls for early voting. There’s nothing illegal or unethical about that, so long as only eligible voters vote.  But it’s a reminder that some good polling is not a substitute for going to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2012 16 Comments
While Elizabeth Warren is doing well in the polls, her story about not promoting herself as Native American for professional purposes continues to fall apart. Michael Patrick Leahy, writing at Breitbart.com today, links to an article in the Spring 1993 issue of the student-run Harvard Women’s Law Journal, when...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 19, 2012 16 Comments
Maryland’s loss of 6,000 jobs was the largest of any state in the nation last month. Some have been quick to write off the figures as a product of unusual weather patterns affecting seasonal hiring practices, but there is a growing belief that the Maryland...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2012 18 Comments
I haven’t had much time to focus on the debacle unfolding in my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations over loan guarantees to a company owned by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. This Bloomberg story has the latest: Curt Schilling, pitching ace...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2012 49 Comments
The unemployment report was just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Bottom line:  115,000 new jobs added, pundits had expected 177,000.  “Unemployment Rate” drops to 8.1%, but as Ezra Klein admits, only because so many people left the workforce (over 300,000 more): Unemployment rate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 26 Comments
Obama has been narrowing his targets for attack and derision ever since the 2008 campaign. Everywhere he looks, he finds some group to hold up for public scorn, and that group has narrowed from the top 5% to the top 2% to the top 1% to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 12 Comments
Kay Hymowitz:  Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit): One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2012 6 Comments
I have written quite a bit about the challenge by Richard Mourdock to Obama’s Favorite Republican, Richard Lugar. But one subject I haven’t touched upon was Mourdock’s valiant effort, against great political odds, to stand up for private bondholders against the Obama-enforced bailout of Chrysler....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2012 29 Comments
I’d rather sit in the dark. That’s my sense of today: Secret Service agent scandal gets worse with allegations of cocaine use, and here is a headline which tells us this drama will play out for a while: Escort Recounts Quarrel With Secret Service Agent. Image...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 52 Comments
There has been a pressure campaign against corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) led by Color of Change and some of the same groups targeting conservative talk radio: Here’s how it works.  An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 38 Comments
A reader writes: Not sure if you have something planned for tax day, but thought you’d like a little perspective from the private sector. If you do use it, please hold back our names – a few of my clients are liberals! The joys of being a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2012 214 Comments
Just breaking, via NY Times: Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, according two of his advisers, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 30, 2012 6 Comments
The new Libertarianism.org has amassed a bunch of great essays from CATO scholars and the like. One of my (very) recent favorites is from Aaron Ross Powell, who discusses the nature of political obligation in How We Might Become Politically Obligated, a follow up to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2012 3 Comments
In response to my most recent post regarding the two year anniversary of the death of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Daniel Porto, I was contacted by reader Kate in Texas who suggested I alert other readers to Sand Soldiers of America: I read last night about the post you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 18 Comments
A $17,000 Dumpster Ramp for the Handicapped.  Yes, but how many jobs did it create or save? Buffett Rule would bring in less than $3 billion a year in revenue.  Yes, but think how many dumpster ramps that could build. I’m going to do the Saturday...
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