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Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on December 30, 2012 14 Comments
… The blame game begins. We noted here on Friday that the bad economy is already dialed in for 2013, but that President Obama would likely seek to blame congressional Republicans and the fiscal cliff fiasco for the impending economic woes. As expected, the finger...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 29 Comments
UPDATE: Both bills (for private and public sectors) passed the House. 5:45 p.m. Bills have been signed into law: Snyder: I’ve signed these bills #righttowork twitter.com/jonathanoostin… — Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) December 11, 2012 “I view this as opporotunity to stand up for Michigan workers. Freedom...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2012 21 Comments
There is no question that Scott Brown won the debate last night. It wasn’t a knock out.  As Howie Carr correctly notes, a man can’t get away with hitting a woman too hard in a debate: When he was pummeling her on the asbestos litigation,...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 26, 2012 41 Comments
Today some on the Right conceded that Obama’s the one with the “cool” factor. Does that mean the Republicans need to cede all marketing savvy, though? Compare the RNC and DNC convention websites and ask yourself what caption you’d write under the images. The splash...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments
You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called “independent” groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 54 Comments
Did you hear what Andrea Mitchell said last night after the debate?  I did, and so did David Limbaugh. If true, abject panic is just below the surface: (video added, via Greg Hengler) We may be at Kübler-Ross Stage 4 over the prospect of a Romney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2011 11 Comments
Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic has been leading the charge, echoed by many, not only that Bibi Netanyahu was disrespectful to “my President,” but also that Obama’s statement regarding Israel’s borders in his Middle East speech last Thursday did not represent any meaningful change in U.S. policy....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2011 3 Comments
I previously posted about The Culture of Jumping To Conclusions At Widener Law School, including allegations by Widener law school professor Lawrence Connell that Widener Dean Linda Ammons falsely accused Connell of racism and sexism, and of engaging in threatening behavior by using a hypothetical example in criminal law class involving an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments
Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid’s words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2010 3 Comments
Mission accomplished.  We’re just like Europe, at least in terms of Gross Domestic Product per person (emphasis mine): For quite some time, the US and the leading EU countries have been fairly comparable in terms of output per hour worked. The US has had higher output per...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 8 Comments
Rasmussen released earlier today another health care poll, finding that by almost 2-to-1 margins, Americans support repeal of ObamaCare: Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law, including 49% who Strongly Favor repeal. A new Rasmussen Reports national...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2009 7 Comments
Kraft Foods has issued a formal request that users of Dijon mustard receive a presidential pardon (click on photo below for full text): “So we urge you to respond to “Dijon-gate” by issuing a “pardon” to any American who has ever been criticized for putting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 6 Comments
Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed as willing to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments
UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it’s not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. Further...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2008 0 Comments
I want to live: Captured terrorist Azam
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