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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2010 62 Comments
A hot story today is how a reporter for The Weekly Standard was shoved to the ground by a Martha Coakley campaign worker when the reporter tried to ask Coakley why she was attending a fundraiser with lobbyists. But another part of the story, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2010 11 Comments
Last Saturday I was at the Needham campaign headquarters of Scott Brown, and I filed two reports of what I found. My two reports are here and here. Today I spent an hour at the Wrentham (Brown’s hometown) local campaign “office” not far from the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 01, 2010 5 Comments
Martha Coakley’s campaign is touting the fact that it has raised $5.2 million so far, almost four times as much as Scott Brown, including $1 million in the past six weeks (compared to $700k for Brown). Coakley, however, spent heavily in the primary, and started...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2009 6 Comments
This will be my last post of the year, barring some high-profile conservative taking ill and being rushed to the hospital in which Barack Obama was not born just before he was born in that other hospital in the state where Rush Limbaugh is resting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 5 Comments
There is Scott Brown the Senate candidate in Massachusetts, and there is Scott Brown, the musician in New Zealand. They each have Twitter accounts, but the Scott Brown from Down Under laid claim to @ScottBrown first, and the Senate candidate had to resort to @ScottBrownMA....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2009 8 Comments
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen: “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2009 10 Comments
During the June 2009 protests that rocked Iran over election fraud, the Obama administration was silent for days, then came out and embraced improved relations with the regime in the hope of improving the chances for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment
Juan Cole, who thinks people chanting “Death to America” are merely misunderstood, uses this Christmas morning to launch an attack on Israel, “Bethlehem Under Occupation; In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope.” With an embedded video from al-Jazeera, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 18 Comments
One idea being floated on the internet is a “National Strike” on January 20, 2010, to protest Obama’s State of the Union address in light of the irresponsible health care legislation and out-of-control spending. I completely sympathize with the emotion behind the idea. But the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 18 Comments
Not by me. By an über liberal feminist blogger at HuffPo, Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris: In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2009 3 Comments
In March 2008, Max Baucus (D-MT) had separated from his wife. That same month, Andrew Ramanos was in his final undergraduate semester at George Washington University, where he worked on the school newspaper, the GW Hatchet. In the summer of 2008, Baucus started dating a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 2 Comments
Or so it seems. Democratic Representative Mike Capuano is running in the Democratic special primary for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. While running against numerous other high-profile Democrats, such as Attorney General Martha Coakley, Capuano has put Dick Cheney at the center of his campaign strategy....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 27, 2009 4 Comments
Scott Eric Kaufman, at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, thought counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings was a cool way to prove that Palin and her supporters were racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in available photos. In fact, all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2009 8 Comments
The Nation magazine has an extensive article detailing a classified operation in Pakistan by Blackwater, acting expressly under U.S. authority and coordination, to fight al–Qaeda: At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2009 7 Comments
I’ve spent some time going through Harry Reid’s 2,074 page health care restructuring bill. If you read the dozens of prior posts regarding prior versions, you pretty much know the story. There are many good analyses of the tax and other aspects, so read up....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2009 1 Comment
There is one number about which Harry Reid and the Democrats almost never talk: 255 million. That is the number of Americans who have health insurance, according to the September 2009 Report released by the Census Bureau (at page 20). The vast majority of those...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2009 9 Comments
See Update below——————————————- Politico is one of the class acts in internet news to which I link frequently, and Ben Smith is a justifiably respected commentator at Politico. Which is why it pains me to have to point out that yesterday Smith unfairly smeared Robert...
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