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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 13 Comments
A rumor — apparently denied — that possible (likely?) Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is gay set the White House on a “scorched earth” attack on CBS News, where the rumor was reported in a blog. The reaction in the left-wing blogosphere has been equally...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2010 6 Comments
Iran is killing American and coalition soldiers in Afghanistan. And not because Israel issued a building permit for more homes in an already Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. As reported by the Times of London, Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs: TALIBAN commanders have revealed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2009 14 Comments
One thing, to a certainty, is that the Holocaust Museum shooting by a long-time neo-Nazi white supremacist, who previously committed an attempted shooting at the Federal Reserve in 1981, will be used for political purposes. Although the shooting is only hours old, numerous blogs already...

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 02, 2009 0 Comments
I saw a reference at Brian Leiter’s Law Report blog touting an article that might be “perhaps the best thing to happen to law schools since U.S. News?” Others are citing this potentially ground-breaking piece, including the Wall Street Journal law page, and the TaxProf...
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