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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2010 25 Comments
Why does Juan Williams negatively stereotype oppressed minorities?  Here’s what he said about crime in the inner city: There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 24, 2010 7 Comments
J-Street is the supposed liberal alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  J-Street has been accused — including by me — of being nothing more than a front group meant to undermine U.S. support for Israel by playing the “balance” card pushed by groups...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2010 42 Comments
I wasn’t going to post on this, because I figured there had been enough publicity for him already.  But now that I see (via Instapundit and TaxProf) that the controversy has made its way into Forbes and many major websites, I’ll weigh in on the case of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2010 33 Comments
The “nuts and sluts” defense is a common employment law tactic whenever a female employee brings a claim.  It doesn’t matter what the claim is, the defense — after the usual legal mumbo jumbo — will be something like this: “She’s nuts.  And by the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 13 Comments
I have written many times before about the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization to which I contributed for many years back in the late 1970s and 1980s, when SPLC was fighting Klan groups. In the past two decades, however, after the Klan ceased to be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 13 Comments
Sam Stein writes at HuffPo today that increasingly libertarian social attitudes in the Republican Party combined with the failure of Democrats to live up to campaign promises, has led Democratic Party insiders to worry that “the Obama administration risks losing the gay rights community (or at least...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2010 10 Comments
Obama was interviewed by Brian Williams yesterday.  Once again, Obama exhibited the sort of disdain towards a substantial portion of the population as he did in his bitter clinger comments back in 2008. You will remember that at a private cocktail party in April 2008...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2010 2 Comments
There he goes again.  Greg Sargent — in a post at The Washington Post picked up and spread wide in the blogosphere and by Harry Reid’s campaign — claims that Sharron Angle twice refuses to disavow claim that there are “domestic enemies” in Congress. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2010 9 Comments
The Eliminationist theorists in the left-wing blogosphere thought they finally had their man.  Having struck out with the Anti-Muslim Cabbie Stabber in the quest to prove that there is a rising tide of right-wing violence instigated by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and wingnuts, the Eliminationist theorists were cheered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 21 Comments
Amanda Terkel, one of the lead writers at Think Progress, is exasperated that the “right-wing” has convinced the “media” that Obama’s religion is open to question (emphasis mine): While journalists and pundits on cable news today did acknowledge the “media” have had a role to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 49 Comments
A federal lawsuit was filed in May 2009 challenging Proposition 8, the California referendum which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Prop. 8 previously was upheld by the California Supreme Court. The federal lawsuit, Perry et al...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2010 10 Comments
What is it about the start of August? In the past couple of days we have seen several pieces by people who create misleading caricatures of conservatives and then use those misleading caricatures to attack a broad swath of those opposed to the Obama agenda....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 15 Comments
I have posted before about the left-wing blogosphere’s obsession with mocking Trig Palin and attacking Sarah Palin for bringing Trig on stage during the campaign. Now, in the latest revelations from the Journolist archives, The Daily Caller reprints Journolist emails regarding Trig. And obsessed with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 16 Comments
Scott Brown didn’t see the forest for the trees in deciding to support Chris Dodd and Barney Frank’s financial reform legislation. Although Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins went along also, they did so only after Brown made his announcement. If Brown had come out strongly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2010 5 Comments
We have seen this tactic before. Last January, Democrats in Massachusetts sent out a mailer accusing Scott Brown of wanting to deny medical care to rape victims, because he had introduced state legislation providing health care providers with a religious conscience exemption to providing abortion-related services,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 15 Comments
Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate. Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms “heartless”: By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made...
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