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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 1 Comment
Update 4-28-2009: Murphy declared the winner of the race by a couple hundred votes, as a result of doing better on absentee ballots than expected. —————————————————-The Politico is characterizing the virtual tie between Jim Tedesco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) as a loss for Republicans....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 0 Comments
My favorite April Fools’ day headlines from around the globe: Obama confesses to treason and resigns, co-conspirators are in custody, Hillary Clinton sworn in as president Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink Microsoft releases Vista patch to improve battery life Dog poo...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 5 Comments
News is just breaking that Attorney General Eric Holder is withdrawing the indictment of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens based on severe prosecutorial misconduct. The Politico reports, via NPR, that Holder will instruct deputies to withdraw the indictment against the Alaska Republican today, effectively voiding...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2009 0 Comments
“J Street” is a new web-based group which promises to promote “peace” in the Middle East. J Street has garnered much attention, and a Memeorandum thread, based on an article in Jewish Week which asks “What is [it] about J Street, the pro-peace process lobby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2009 0 Comments
Ann Althouse is marrying one of the commenters on her blog. But she vehemently denies that her blog serves as one big dating service, not that there would be anything wrong with that. So what does the Blogospheric Neologian call this? Blogcest ——————————————–Follow me on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 1 Comment
During the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama attempted to prove intentions to keep us safe by insisting that he, unlike the Bush administration, would send troops into Pakistan without Pakistani approval: In a strikingly bold speech about terrorism Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Illinois...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2009 4 Comments
The Washington Post story, titled “Detainee’s Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots,” about how the interrogation of Abu Zubaida did not prevent a single terrorist attack, is old news. The story ran this morning, which is like so last century in the blogosphere. But the Post...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments
UPDATE 4-16-2009: The Spanish Attorney General has rejected the attempt to open an investigation of the six Americans accused of, well it’s not clear what, but the Spanish Judge at issue wanted to bring them up on charges related to Gitmo. See background below. Further...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 1 Comment
When we think of the First Amendment to the Constitution, we think of the freedoms of religion, speech and the press. Occasionally, someone will mention the right to peaceably assemble. But for most people, the discussion ends there. Can you name which right guaranteed by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 4 Comments
The JournoList has evoked much commentary. But a bigger question is being missed. What lurks beneath the outward gentility and civility of the most enlightened liberal bloggers and columnists? Apparently it is not pretty. Some people expressed surprise at the ugly tone of the thread...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 0 Comments
David Brooks is back on the Obama ranch, having been lassoed by White House officials when he briefly strayed. Brook’s latest puff piece is The Winnable War. You don’t need to read it. I’ll give you the punch line, which is a shocka: BUSH BAD,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment
The JournoList was revealed by Politico. The founder of the JournoList, Ezra Klein, explained the purpose as follows (emphasis mine): Journolist is meant to serve a very specific purpose that’s actually related to my experience building this blog. The work of this site has always...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2009 1 Comment
Obama’s teleprompter has instigated a fight between Mr. Nasty and President O’Nasty. It started with a scripted dig by Obama at Simon Cowell on the Jay Leno show, to which Cowell responded in kind: When the historians of tomorrow take out their quill pens and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 2 Comments
It is amazing how this administration creates controversies because it expresses opinions without reading the documents on which the opinions are based. First, there was the AIG bonus controversy. The bonuses were authorized by the stimulus plan, which neither the administration nor Congress actually read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 0 Comments
Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican Congressman from Minnesota, has gotten into the heads of the left-wing blogosphere. Yesterday was the completely phony attack on Bachmann’s “armed and dangerous” comment, in which her metaphor for outrage was twisted into a supposed call to arms. Today brings...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2009 4 Comments
I have been waiting for this day, when one of the demonized executives at a bank or insurance company would tell Congress to “take this job and shove it.” The person singing this song today is Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American...
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