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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2010 13 Comments
MSNBC has given up any pretense of being a news organization, and is staking out an explicitly left-wing political persona as part of a new marketing campaign under the slogan, “Lean Forward.” As reported by The New York Times: MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 1 Comment
The media trolls are out in full force trying to demoralize the opposition by floating stories about how the Democrats have regained their footing, are coming back across the country, and the Republican insurgency peaked early.  See Erick Erickson’s column for a round up… circa...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 8 Comments
Spotted by a reader in Chapel Hill, NC (the Ithaca of the South), a now rare and suprisingly well-preserved Haughty-Naughty (Kerry-Edwards) bumper sticker, with a touch of Ohio Moonbat thrown in: ——————————————–Related Posts:Bumper Stickers – The Series Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube 

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 27 Comments
I clicked through on a Dan Riehl tweet to his post about a column by Conor Friedersdorf at Forbes, about something or other. I don’t know who Conor Friedersdorf is, but Riehl doesn’t seem to like him, which is really surprising because Riehl likes just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 11 Comments
The Stuxnet malware apparently was designed to damage or destroy industrial system controllers of the type used in Iran’s nuclear program. It is too early to assess what, if any, damage has taken place in Iran because of the secrecy of the Iranian regime.  Based...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments
Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist “elements” in the movement.  As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 11 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 6 Comments
Last Sunday I highlighted the famed “Coexist” bumper sticker, which seems to be everywhere (at least in Ithaca, Berkeley and Cambridge). But there are liberal non-conformists out there, who refuse to wear the “Coexist” sticker on their cars just because all their friends are doing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 3 Comments
Greg Sargent who blogs at The Washington Post has been the single greatest blogospheric force in going after Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell, nitpicking their every word, and ascribing the worst motivations to ambiguous or out of context statements to portray them as dangerous extremists, liars, and worse.  Sargent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2010 10 Comments
NPR Will Be the Dominant News Force By 2020: NPR will be one of the dominant forces in media in ten years because their membership-based funding model is finely tuned to the habits of millennial news consumers. That’s the prophecy of Craig Newmark, founder of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 16 Comments
The New York Times reported on a possible reference to the Book of Esther in the Stuxnet code.  Queen Esther, of course, saved the Jews of Persia from the evil Haman, as celebrated in the Jewish holiday Purim. Now, a Symantec researcher has found a reference in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 32 Comments
Gloria Allred is doing more to drive illegal immigrants underground and to target Latinos for racial profiling than anything the State of Arizona has even thought of doing. Allred dropped a late-September surprise on Meg Whitman based on the allegation that Whitman did not do...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 20 Comments
The federal government is forcing states and municipalities to change the lettering on street signs from all CAPS to initial Caps because it supposedly is easier for motorists to read, and therefore will save milliseconds of driver attention which might, I repeat, MIGHT, save lives....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 10 Comments
Don’t get distracted by all the distractions the Dems are throwing up (pun intended). Keep on message:  The Dems are ruining the economy, suffocating business, stealing from our grandchildren, and trying to control every aspect of our lives. Let the blithering idiots and hacks with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 7 Comments
Guenter Lewy, an emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachetts, filed a defamation lawsuit in 2008 against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and two one of its employees, (including Mark Potok) David Holthouse. The lawsuit arose from Lewy’s historical research in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 3 Comments
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is an association, er, of American law schools.  The AALS annual meeting, which is held early in January, is a big event in the law professor community. I first posted about the AALS annual meeting back in November 2008, when some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2010 5 Comments
You can keep your coverage and doctor, if you want to.  And the check is in the mail.  And I’m good for it, don’t worry.  And … As reported by The Boston Globe: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its...
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