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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 35 Comments
There are way too many events today for me to post separately. This is a trial run of what we will do tonight starting at 6 p.m. Eastern, which is a Twitter feed using accounts I selected for today, together with a WordPress “live” feed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 78 Comments
Assessment — Not sure how to rate this. I wonder how Biden’s constant laughing, smirks, and bombastic language (“bunch of malarkey”) played with the viewers. Biden also talked over Ryan constantly, and the moderator often cut short Ryan’s answers. Ryan also didn’t get a chance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2012 211 Comments
Starts at 9 p.m. Eastern. This is just an open thread for people to make their feelings known.  I’m not going to “live blog” it. But I may jump in with some thoughts as it goes along. And at the end, there will be an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2012 55 Comments
How would the media react if we did this to the DNC? Via The Hill: Bucking protocol, President Obama and the Democrats are planning a full-scale assault on Republicans next week during their convention. Presidential candidates have traditionally kept a low profile during their opponent’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2012 52 Comments
Only one will emerge. Tonight’s match-up pits two of the all time great race card plays. In the near corner:  Joey, Joey, Joey Biden.  The Man.  The Legend.  The Vice President. In the far corner:  Touré, Touré, Touré Neblett.  The Man.  The Legend.  The MSNBC commentator (language warning): The...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 17, 2012 35 Comments
Hillary Clinton had already indicated she would not be open to replacing Joe Biden as VP on the Obama ticket prior to yesterday’s lunch, according to a Washington Examiner report out today. At an earlier lunch with Valerie Jarrett, says source, author Ed Klein, Clinton...

Posted by Anne Segal on July 15, 2012 19 Comments
Thursday night former Vice President Dick Cheney held a fundraiser at his home in Jackson, WY, for Mitt Romney. During his remarks, Cheney stressed Romney’s ability to handle the foreign-policy decisions that a commander-in-chief faces, while Romney cautioned that Obama’s foreign-policy mistakes may have even...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2012 23 Comments
The speculation is over, via L.A. Times: Mitt Romney pulled in a blockbuster fundraising haul in June, collecting $106.1 million for his campaign and the Republican Party, his campaign announced today. The total marks Romney’s best fundraising month yet, as the former Massachusetts governor continues...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 42 Comments
Service set identifiers, or SSIDs, are essentially the network names that people give to their wireless networks. It turns out many Americans–and people across the world–are turning to SSIDs as a unique way to express their political sentiments. Much in the same way a yard...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 20, 2012 37 Comments
thaaaat leads, to: This apology.  When do I get mine? And the award for the Most Underrated Blog Post of 2012 goes to …. (oh, how he must suffer for his art). TaxProf has tax charts showing charitable giving of various candidates. Television makes strange bedfellows.  Chris...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2011 19 Comments
Brilliant.   Healer.  Reformer.  Magnanimous. Words routinely used to describe Barack Obama, all of which have no basis in history, as documented by Victor Davis Hanson: Barack Obama is a myth, our modern version of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. What we were told is true,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2011 18 Comments
Traveling all day, now in Palm Desert, CA.  Because there’s almost no way to get there from central New York, we ended up flying into Orange County airport and driving.  Along the way we saw these windfarms — Obama would so proud: From some sneak...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2010 7 Comments
Here are Legal Insurrection’s Official predictions for 2011: Obama will give an unscripted speech announcing he is resigning to take a year-long road trip to play golf in each of the 57 states. Joe Biden, the second in line to the presidency, will become President upon Obama’s resignation,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 33 Comments
12-24-2010:  Welcome Matthew Yglesias readers.  I address Yglesias’ defense of why he called Haley Barbour racist, and his attack on me, in an update below.  And I see that Ta-Nehisi Coates is defending Yglesias, so I’ll address that too. —————————————————– 1947 was the year in...
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