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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2011 20 Comments
Mitt Romney appeared last night for an interview with Brett Baier (video below).  Too bad Brett didn’t ask Romney why Romney refused to appear before the full panel on Center Seat, like the other candidates have done. My biggest reaction is that it’s bizarre that Romney refuses to admit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2011 46 Comments
Via The Hill, and about a thousand other outlets: Herman Cain told members of his staff that he is “reassessing” his decision to remain in the race for the Republican presidential nomination following new allegations that he conducted a 13-year-long affair with an Atlanta businesswoman....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2011 22 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: As you know, I support Newt Gingrich. But you also know that I have a policy of uniting behind any Republican candidate who comes under false attack from Democrats...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2011 15 Comments
Every time one thinks it is impossible for Israel haters to come out with a more bizarre justification for hating Israel, someone comes up with an even more bizarre justification. Today’s exhibit is City University of New York Professor Sara Schulman, who is feverishly anti-Israeli...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 12, 2011 32 Comments
The Penn State football scandal is the Kitty Genovese scandal of our time. Of all the unimaginable things, can you imagine a 28 year old walking in on a child rape in progress and doing nothing to stop it? I don’t mean to turn this into...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2011 20 Comments
Yesterday I saw a lengthy thread at Memeorandum about a “HermanCainPAC” website which had a large cover story calling Karen Kraushaar an “ugly bitch.” Here’s the screenshot: The website looked real, with a donate page and so on. But I didn’t post about it because it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 10 Comments
The champagne corks must have been popping at Politico sometime just after 2 p.m. today, as Sharon Bialek presented her charges against Herman Cain. After a week of obsessive reporting (at least 91 stories about Cain’s alleged sexual harassment of employees at the National Restaurant...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2011 25 Comments
I really don’t want this to turn into one of those foul-mouthed blogs, but this is pushing me to the limit: Asked if the country’s consistently high unemployment rate made him vulnerable in the upcoming 2012 election, Obama insisted “the least of my concerns at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2011 51 Comments
Barring something truly earthshaking warranting a separate post, I’ll be updating the Herman Cain story today in this post. The NY Times reports that one of Cain’s accusers received a year’s severance, $35,000, but that there were issues in addition to Cain that made her uncomfortable...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2011 41 Comments
I’m finally back after a full day of travel, where I had to rely on CNN and MSNBC on the plane for coverage of the Politico story about Herman Cain. I can’t really sort through all the details yet, too much has happened in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on October 28, 2011 8 Comments
but he totally wrecks Cornel West in this recent TV interview that I have deemed a must watch.  Once Cornel West makes a fortune off of reading the market, I’ll start listening to his explanations of crises. By the way, I’m fairly certain that everyone who pines for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2011 45 Comments
You know the trick, Obama’s an expert at it.  Create a straw man argument by presenting extreme choices, in order to make one of the choices seem like the only reasonable choice.  It’s also called being a “shorter,” in internet parlance. Nicholas Kristof of The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2011 4 Comments
As Kathleen posted earlier, Warren Buffett is backing away from the so-called Buffett Rule, which apparently is not so much a Rule as a stream of consciousness sprinkled with thoughts and afterthoughts. The best thing about the Buffett Rule Non-Rule What Are You Talking About,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2011 11 Comments
I have posted numerous times before about the case of Lawrence Connell, the Widener Law School Professor who was placed on one-year unpaid leave and forced to undergo a psychiatric examination as a condition of return. The sanctions imposed by Dean Linda Ammons were so controversial...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 22, 2011 22 Comments
Via HotAir, Mitt Romney has scored two significant conservative endorsements recently, Jeff Flake and Darrel Issa.  While that may not constitute a coalescing around Romney, it does help insulate him from RINO charges.  Whatever he once was, is he now the conservative who can win? What’s...
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