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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 19 Comments
The media apparently was in full attendance at the Kermit Gosnell trial starting yesterday. Professor Glenn Reynolds called it Breaking media silence: Now the story has gotten some coverage on CNN (Jake Tapper broke the silence first) and other networks, and while it’ll never get...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2013 6 Comments
Terry McAuliffe, perennial Democratic partisan and Clintonite, wants to be Governor of Virginia. But he has a problem. A big problem, Terry McAuliffe’s Solyndra.  Go read the article at the link.  All you need to know is in this Dukakis-in-a-tank-like photo: While the issue had received...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 01, 2013 30 Comments
An important premise of “The American Dream” is that a college education guarantees a successful career. However, that dream is slipping away — unless being a coffee shop barista is the job goal.  Ben Casselman of the Wall Street Journal takes a look at a...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 20, 2013 3 Comments
The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever complicated personal themes may have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 01, 2012 39 Comments
The Founding Fathers owned slaves.  We knew that, didn’t we? Slavery was an institution in many places in the world, including the newly formed United States.  It took a generation and a civil war to end it here, long before it was ended elsewhere. That...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 168 Comments
I’ll have more in the morning, but my quick thoughts. Of course it was a bad defeat tonight.  Let’s not kid ourselves. We had a chance to stop the decline, and we didn’t. We held the House pretty strongly, so that’s good, and a reflection...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2012 46 Comments
I have no implicit pro- or anti-Nate Silver bias.  He was a journolist and in 2008 got some secret help with his predictions from the Obama campaign, but since joining The NY Times I think he has raised his game. I find the whole focus on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2012 14 Comments
A recent poll indicates she is in trouble. Via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: No matter who wins the Missouri Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, Democrat Claire McCaskill is running from behind. McCaskill, the first-term incumbent Democratic senator, trails all three of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2012 34 Comments
Caterpillar has ruled out building a planned new plant in Illinois due to the negative business climate, via AP: “Please understand that even if your community had the right logistics for this project, Caterpillar’s previously documented concerns about the business climate and overall fiscal health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2011 55 Comments
Benjamin Korn of Jews for Sarah, writing at the JTA,  OP-ED: Jews becoming commonplace in conservative ‘new media’: Many reviews already have appeared of “The Undefeated,” the soon-to-be-released documentary about Sarah Palin’s tenure in Alaska.Yet none of them — even in The Los Angeles Times,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 15 Comments
I’m not going to repeat all the background; read my prior posts: The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not “False” Shirley Sherrod May Prefer The Life Left Unexamined Shirley Sherrod Catches Andrew Breitbart’s Car Where we are today is that last Friday Sherrod filed and this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2010 16 Comments
Ezra Klein, who organized the Journolist and now blogs at The Washington Post, declares that the expose by The Daily Caller has descended from tragedy into farce. The proof? Klein feels that The Daily Caller is not disclosing enough of the e-mails, which Klein feels...
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