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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 14 Comments

Maybe I have not recovered from witnessing the ability of the nation to delude and deceive itself, as happened in 2008. I never understood the attraction in the first place, so I'm not believing that when the recovering deluded and deceived enter the voting booth, they will...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 6 Comments

... Obama decided to do it again on a jobs plan. The 2009 health care speech was what I dubbed the "have your cake and eat it too" speech, in which Obama lashed out at critics of the pending House and Senate legislation while offering solutions which were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 13 Comments

That's what the driver of this car would have to do if not for big bad oil. Thanks to reader Joseph, who writes: I noticed this in a Jacksonville Beach parking lot as I was on my way to catch some waves from the hurricane after a Michele...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 25 Comments

Obama, having bid to disrupt a previously scheduled Republican primary debate at the Reagan Libary on Wednesday, September 7, was rebuffed by John Boehner, who just said No, do it on Thursday. Obama caved, and now has agreed to give the speech on Thursday. Which conflicts with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 4 Comments

My town in Rhode Island still is mostly without power, as is much of the state.  My wife returned there briefly today (we were in Ithaca when Irene hit) and called me to say "I've never seen anything like this."  Even several days later the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 6 Comments

Allahpundit: The worst part is that, with the economy on the brink of a double-dip and consumer confidence falling off a cliff, this guy’s mind is still so preoccupied with the campaign that he can’t muster a moment of presidential leadership without counterprogramming it against a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 19 Comments

As a follow up to my prior post on Obama's calculated request that he give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress the same evening as a Republican primary debate, and the first day Congress is back in session, John Boehner has not said...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 50 Comments

Obama has sent a request for a Joint Session of Congress appearance, this time to deliver his jobs speech.  And guess what, he asked for it the night of a previously scheduled Republican primary debate: President Obama has requested a joint session of Congress next week...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 3 Comments

Via Chicago Tribune: An investigator for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s human rights agency got a slap on the wrist for forwarding an e-mail before last November’s election that contended the Republican Party had been hijacked by “dangerous, radical hate mongers called the ‘Tea Party.'" The e-mail, sent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 24 Comments

Obama plans a fall offensive against Republicans, according to The Hill (via JWF and Instapundit): President Obama is preparing to fight a political war this fall on two fronts -- the first against Republicans who want his job and the second against Republicans who want to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 5 Comments

Rhode Island still is without power in much of the state, including my neighborhood.  National Grid is estimating that power will not be restored to the entire town until September 5. As of yesterday, as reported by The Providence Journal: Electrical power was the biggest casualty of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2011 11 Comments

Thanks to reader Greg who writes: I’m a young Legal Insurrection reader from North Carolina. I designed this anti-Obama bumper sticker and would really appreciate if you could help me spread the design so people can re-post or print it themselves. The beauty is that at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 9 Comments

I should know never to make a categorical statement about anything, because I have several thousand fact checkers/helpers. This morning I joked that I had not seen any boats involved in the Madison protests. Thanks to reader Patricia for sending me a link to a post about the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 15 Comments

That's a theme in a very worthwhile article about Thomas written by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker: These tempests obscure a larger truth about Thomas: that this year has also  been, for him, a moment of triumph. In several of the most important areas of ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2011 11 Comments

The Kennedy administration has been described as having attracted the best and the brightest to government service, sometimes with bad but well-intentioned results. I don't know Alan Krueger, Obama's new head of the Council of Economic Advisers.  But Ezra Klein claims to know a lot about Krueger,...

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