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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2011 12 Comments
Criticism of Supreme Court Justices is nothing new.  We do it and they do it. But the latest tactic in going after two Supreme Court Justices, Scalia and Thomas, seems out of the ordinary.  Since the first of this year we have seen three charges...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 37 Comments
Sarah Palin has come under criticism for using the term “a blood libel” to refer to the accusations that she incited Jared Loughner to murder in Tucson. I previously explained why Palin’s use of the term was consistent with modern usage, and how the criticism...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 67 Comments
Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice. But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 12 Comments
The people who falsely and maliciously accused Sarah Palin of inciting Jared Loughner to murder now are criticizing Palin for using the term “blood libel.” The term “blood libel” has it’s origins in the accusation in Europe (and more modern times, in the Middle East)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 25 Comments
Best headline of the day, via The Daily Mail in Britain: How America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin The substance of the article makes points you have heard before regarding the murderous rampage by Jared Loughner: Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2011 9 Comments
CBS News has released a poll in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of several others. The poll results show that the attempts by the left-blogosphere, mainstream media and some Democratic politicians to blame right-wing political speech and Sarah Palin...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 08, 2011 10 Comments
The History Channel has pulled the plug on a recent TV miniseries about the Kennedy family. “Liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald was behind a petition drive to get the movie shelved. A website, stopkennedysmears.com, was set up with a short film that attacked the miniseries. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 11 Comments
More dumbed-down talk about the Constitution from Tea Parties liberal columnists, this time Amanda Terkel (formerly of Think Progress) writing at HuffPo with the headline: Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination Gee, Scalia must hate women. Except that the headline is a good example...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 11 Comments
I’m not talking about DADT or the military troops. I’m talking about the political troops who worked their rear ends off to take back the House of Representatives and narrow the gap in the Senate, only to watch Barack Obama and Harry Reid run circles...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2010 6 Comments
Harry Reid lowered the boom yesterday, rolling out a $1.1 trillion, 1,924-page Omnibus Budget bill, which was sure to infuriate Republicans in the Senate. To roll out such a provocative bill at a time when Reid has an extraordinarily tight calendar on a variety of social...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2010 7 Comments
Another rush of legislation, taxes, budget, and a host of social agenda items. We’ve seen this bad movie before.  It resulted in Stimulus, and the Christmas Eve Obamacare vote last year. And it appears to be happening again. This lame duck Congress has no political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2010 6 Comments
I’m trying really, really hard not to take the bait.  I promised you I would be better next time. At least I’ve recognized that I have a problem, which is the first step, right? You see, the thing is, I just enjoy it too much,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 62 Comments
The U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran on November 4, 1979, was the start of 444 days which came to define Jimmy Carter.  The U.S. government was revealed to be powerless and the President weak.  Those among us who were alive and conscious during those days have embedded...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 76 Comments
Charles Krauthammer has lambasted the mainstream (i.e. liberal) media for its obsession with Sarah Palin. That goes double for liberal entertainers and academics, and triple for the left-blogosphere, which is nuts-in-the-head (that’s a precise medical term in Austrian) when it comes to Palin. But this obsession is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2010 15 Comments
I cannot begin to tell you how much it sickens me that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group I supported many years ago because of its work against the Klan, has become a key player in labeling legitimate conservative political and religious groups as “hate groups.” I...
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