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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 73 Comments

The Trouble With Mitt: It is ludicrous to claim that the fault lies among conservatives for Romney's precipitous drop among independents, which he’s endured over the past month (in some polls, it's been a negative swing of 20 points), the primary reason he now lags Obama...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 32 Comments

According to researchers, new MRI time-lapse techniques have been developed to track the brain waves of the insane. In a normal human, various brain waves representing essential cognitive functions rarely cross paths, and maintain more or less stable trajectories. In the insane, there are jagged trajectories in...

Posted by Louis R. Lombardi on February 19, 2012 17 Comments

The Arab Spring has sprung. But for us, it has been mostly doom and gloom, an extended winter. Throughout the Middle East, we have seen an uprising against the established order. In most cases, these uprisings have been overdue as the tyrants had their collective feet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 47 Comments

Supporters of Rick Santorum are on Day 3 or 4 of the type of distortion and character assassination which was unleashed on Newt beginning in mid-December, and only paused when Newt dropped in the polls. In Newt's case, almost all of it came from Republicans, in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 22 Comments

Glenn Greenwald had a post Friday titled Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics. The post concerns Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who Greenwald alleges bullies political opponents by threatening frivolous defamation and copyright suits.  I don't know if VanderSloot is guilty as charged by Greenwald,...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2012 14 Comments

I'll try to remember to ask. Another one from reader Rick, who took this photo in Ithaca (at a stop light, of course) and writes: This one is non-political, but hilarious. If you don't get it, please ask me. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 20 Comments

Obama wins even when he doesn't win, because the MSM cheats, and that's a charitable way of putting it: When is a tie not a tie?  And when is a tie-breaker not a tie-breaker?  When our friends in the liberal media are reporting on Obama...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on February 18, 2012 26 Comments

The film Slavery By Another Name recently was released.  It is a moving historical account of the post-emancipation enslavement by another name of blacks through a variety of segregationist and other laws and policies. Unfortunately, but predictably, some used the movie release as an opportunity to score policital...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 71 Comments

This writer at Salon.com argues that liberals should not homeschool their kids, Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids: Homeschooling is so unevenly regulated from state to state that it is impossible to know exactly how many homeschoolers there are. Estimates range from about 1 million to 2...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 17 Comments

Breaking News -- two Supreme Court Justices who voted against the Citizens United decision now believe the decision should be reconsidered. It is headline worthy at WaPo: In other news, Water is Wet!...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 44 Comments

A tweet regarding reports that an unnamed senior Republican Senator asserted to ABC News that if Romney cannot win Michigan, "we need a new candidate."  The "we" apparently is the Republican political establishment, and the new candidate according to the Senator is Jeb Bush. To which Ed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 45 Comments

When Foster Friess, a funder of a pro-Santorum SuperPAC, made a joke about birth control in the old days (that women kept an aspirin between their knees, meaning they kept their legs closed and were not promiscuous), there was outrage (on the internet pronounced OUTRAGE)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2012 20 Comments

Thanks to reader Rick who spotted this vehicle  in Ithaca, and writes: I was hoping to catch the plume of greasy black smoke which I had previously seen coming out of the exhaust pipe, but I shot too soon. But we gotta stop that fracking. Talk about small...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 28 Comments

As I reported the other day, petition signature checkers supporting Gov. Scott Walker are on track to identify between 100,000-200,000 invalid signatures on recall petitions. That number does not even include duplicate signatures, and we know that duplicates are a big problem. Supporters of Gov. Walker, however, need more...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2012 41 Comments

Mike DeWine, Attorney General of Ohio, is switching from Mitt to Rick, and he used to be a Tim supporter, so this is big news: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was in line for a key endorsement on Friday from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 17, 2012 18 Comments

The European Union is in deep water but that, thankfully, hasn't stopped the Europeans from laughing at themselves. einige Schadenfreude (some Schadenfreude): "Dinner for One" (with subtitles) There are apparently a series of videos with Merkel and Sarko dubbed over discussing the Euro Crisis. It's pretty funny ...

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